Where do YOU store your stuff

[GreenGA]

My over crowded shop desperately needs some housekeeping to make room for a new toy.

One thing I would like to move elsewhere is some/most of the wood I use for projects.  The only place I have to store this stuff is in my unheated/exposed-to-the-elements shed out behind the house.  This does not seem like an ideal place to store wood, what with the moisture in the air and all.

May I ask where other members of this forum store their materials, if not in their shop?  If you store it,like I may be forced to, what do you do to ameliorate the affects? 

My shop is actually a room I carved out of my two-car garage.  It's about... 15x17 and "crammed to the rafters".  [crying]

 

[Corwin]

... and "crammed to the rafters". 

... and that was going to be my suggestion.  You know, the rafters.  Oh well.

 

[GreenGA]

Well, IF I had rafter, I would be using them as well.

As it is, the "garage/shop" ceiling is sheetrocked and insulated.

The walls have been pretty much taken over by shelving and "support" walls for my collection of "Green".  [embarassed]

 

[Neill]

Gary,

I had the same probelm when we lived in NJ.  A one car garage and no basement.  The garage was sheetrocked.

What I did was to build square frames from 1x2's about two feet tall and 2 feet wide.  I bolted them to the crossmembers in the ceiling about 6 feet apart.  It worked real well for the limited amount of material I kept on hand.  It would have probably worked better with some extruded aluminum.  Would also work with some of the heavier gauge PVC pipe strapped and bolted to the crossmembers.

Neill

 

[GreenGA]

I would love to do that.  Unfortunately, my ceiling is only about... 7 - 7.4 feet high.

A few years ago, the attic space over the garage was converted into a dressing room off the master bedroom (great way to pick up a 20x22 room without increasing the house footprint).  So, to install the dressing room the ceiling of the garage was lowered a bit.

I am beginning to think this is going to go nowhere.  [crying]

 

[image132]

I know how you feel. My workshop is tiny, you can see it here. I shoved all my wood up on a shelf, the rest of the proper stuff is rotting away in the car port

Is there any chance you could post some pics of your workshop so we could see and give you some tips?

 

[tbellemare]

the ceiling of the garage was lowered a bit.

You could lower the floor...

If you decided to make it a garage again, you'd have easy oil changes, or front end alignments.

Tom

 

[Jonhilgen]

I try to stick to a six month shelf life.  If I grab material off a job (usually extra stuff people are throwing away) or holding on to extra trim or moldings from a job, I either toss it (people in my neighborhood are always scooping it up) or give it away to other woodworkers.  If I can't or won't use it in that period of time, I really don't need it. 

Do I regret it sometimes?  Yes, but I have a wife to keep happy!  And she's happy when the garage, i.e my shop is clean.

Also invested in a Triton lumber rack which has really made my life easier.  Great pickup from Rockler for about 80.00.

Jon