The garage is a special place. For years, it can hold things that everyone has long forgotten existed. We suggest getting rid of junk and making a comfortable workspace by intelligently arranging the tools. Here are some ideas how to store things and functionally use the space in the garage. We will provide you with a garage workshop layout planner to design your working space.

Designing

Organization of the workshop in the garage requires some preliminary calculations. It is necessary to think about and calculate the heating, lighting and ventilation systems, organize workplaces taking into account the presence of a car in the room, provide quick access to the power supply switchboard. If there is a normal box of 4 x 6 m, the matter is solved quite simply, as for ventilation and other items. If, however, the garage has a large size and complex configuration, as is the case in private homes, then calculate all the systems will be more difficult, you may need the help of specialists. 

You can recommend using an online calculator, there are many of them on the network for any system or task. You should not treat the creation of normal conditions as a redundancy – in any case, over time, you will have to perform all the necessary actions, only you will need to be distracted from work, which is inconvenient and irrational.

Organization of workplaces

When creating a workshop in the garage with their own hands, the main issue becomes the competent equipment of workplaces. The limited space dictates its own laws – all the free space along the walls is used. It is recommended initially to free the room from all junk, which inevitably acquires any garage, and sort it by degree of need and frequency of use, in order to subsequently store it in the most rational way.

Practice has shown that the most correct option – the installation of a long workbench along the walls with shelving in the upper tier and open placement of hand tools on the boards in the front plane. Something similar is used in kitchen sets, where the working space is organized very conveniently. It is necessary to install over the workbenches lighting and sockets to connect power tools, a place for welding equipped with fire extinguishing means (sand, fire extinguisher, a bucket of water) and the cone exhaust ventilation. Depending on the specifics of the work to be performed, the question of whether to have a machine in the room – to leave it, or to drive it outdoors while any activities are performed.