The right tool for the garage with your own hands. Overview of homemade products for the garage and home craftsman made by hand

The article discusses the most convenient and practical do-it-yourself garage accessories that can improve the comfort of using this room. Here are detailed recommendations for the development and creation of structures designed for convenient storage of tools and automotive parts, tips for making furniture, as well as arranging a lighting and heating system.

The garage is designed not only for storage, but also for servicing the car. For this reason, this room should be spacious, clean, comfortable and well-equipped.

To achieve all this, it is enough to take into account the basic requirements for the organization of space:

1. The presence of shelves for tires and storage of tools significantly saves free space and allows you to optimize space.
2. The quality of lighting is of great importance, since it affects not only productivity, but also the quality of minor repairs.
3. The construction of a garage workbench, machine tools, a viewing hole and other devices expand the range of opportunities for a car owner in relation to vehicle repair and service.

Useful advice! All these elements should not occupy a space exceeding 10-20% of the garage area.

Do-it-yourself shelving options in the garage: photos and tips for arranging storage spaces

About 80% of the shelves in the garage are built with their own hands to store garage accessories, namely:

• tools and accessories;
• component parts for the car;
• accessories.

Often in the photo of the shelves in the garage with their own hands, they are combined with a rack, which can also be made independently. Most often, the rack is considered as the main place for storing tools. After its installation, the remaining space is filled with comfortable and roomy shelves.

Be sure to allocate a place where work clothes will be stored. It is not necessary to occupy a large area, you can get by with one shelf or even a hook (depending on your needs).

A garage is a place where hazardous and flammable substances are stored. These include oil, gasoline, solvents, paints, polishes. For them, it is necessary to provide a separate cabinet, hang a fire extinguisher and install a sand tank.

To protect against contamination during storage of wheels mounted on tire brackets, it is worth purchasing large bags or specialized covers to prevent dust from entering.

Brackets and shelves for wheels in the garage: design features

The most bulky vehicle spare parts include sets of tires, which can be winter or summer. When winter tires are used, summer tires are usually stored in the garage and vice versa. Therefore, you should organize shelves for storing tires or brackets.

The bracket design looks like this:

1. Two triangular frames made on the basis of the corners. Jumpers made of any durable metal are installed between these frames.
2. The triangular parts of the structure are fixed on the wall in a pre-selected location. Wheels should be installed perpendicular to the supporting element of the stand. In this case, the tires should fall slightly between the jumpers, thus fixing on the shelf due to their own weight.

Useful advice! Do-it-yourself wheel shelves in the garage are recommended to be placed as close to the ceiling as possible at the optimum height. Thanks to this, car tires will not occupy usable space in the garage.

For compact storage of wheels, a whole rack in the form of four wide shelves can be used. It is suitable for placing wheels with discs that can be placed one above the other in a horizontal position. The design can be made angular and raised to the wall.

• wooden beam;
• boards;
• chipboard sheets.

Installing tire brackets is the most efficient way to store wheels. Greater space savings can be achieved by hanging the rubber from the ceiling base along the garage wall. This option is possible if the room has a large height and reinforced concrete floors in the form of slabs on the ceiling. They will be used as the basis for screwing in the dowels.

Tool storage: interesting DIY garage ideas

To organize a convenient area for placing things, you can independently make a home-made and very roomy rack or shelves. Of course, you can find hundreds of ready-made models in stores, however, making a shelf in the garage with your own hands is much cheaper than buying a similar product on the market.

Same issue with shelving. Taking up the independent production of storage space for tools, you can not only organize a convenient and practical rack, but also harmoniously fit it into the garage space.

Useful advice! The minimum load that the structure must withstand is 150 kg or more. In this case, the maximum load limit per section is 500 kg.

Rules for the manufacture of wood products:

1. It is better to use hard wood, such as beech, oak, hornbeam.
2. Before assembly, wood treatment with antiseptic agents is required.
3. Frame parts must be carefully sanded so that the operation of the rack is safe.
4. For the manufacture of shelves, it is recommended to use chipboard or plywood sheets, OSB. DVL plates with a thickness of at least 4 mm are also suitable.

The thickness of the material is determined by the loads that will subsequently act on the rack.

Recommendations for making tool shelves in the garage with your own hands

Shelves are installed in cases where the garage does not allow you to put a rack. It is better if there are several designs.

The scheme for creating shelves for tools:

1. Plan the placement of shelves, determine their size and markup.
2. Prepare material in the form of boards and fasteners.
3. Using a perforator, make holes in the wall, install dowels with hooks in them, which will provide enhanced fixation.
4. Fasten hangers equipped with lugs on the boards. For metal hangers, it is recommended to use self-tapping screws or ordinary nails.
5. Fix the finished products using the building level, otherwise the tool may fall from the shelves, which makes operation unsafe.

Useful advice! When making shelves, it is better to give preference to several short designs, since one long product can break under the weight of the tool.

At the final stage, you can make a decorative finish of products (paint or special film).

The technology of creating a rack for tools in the garage

To create a rack with your own hands, you will need boards 9 and 19 cm wide. The size of the structure can be adjusted.

Step technology:

1. A 9 cm wide element is cut into several pieces 18 cm, 27.5 cm and 30 cm long. The resulting parts will be spacers.
2. A board with a width of 19 cm should be cut into segments 36 cm long. Shelves will be made from these parts.
3. On the board, which will become the base of the product, it is necessary to mark in those places where there will be spacers. It is recommended to indent on each side by 2.5 cm.
4. The upper spacer is glued, then the upper shelf, which already has a spacer, is nailed to it. Other parts are mounted in the same way. Installation of the lower spacer is carried out at the end.
5. The structure should be turned over and the struts should be coupled with screws together with the base of the product.
6. The surface is carefully cleaned with sandpaper. After that, the product must be covered with two layers of oil-based varnish or another type of finish.
7. The structure is fixed to the wall with anchor screws. Fixation should be done both under the top and under the bottom shelf.

Useful advice! To strengthen the product, it is necessary to install wood bars between the sections. They will allow you to evenly distribute the load on the rack.

Organization of the lighting and heating system in the garage

In order for the operation of the garage to be comfortable, the lighting, ventilation and heating system should be properly organized in the room. Since cars are closely associated with the use of toxic and harmful substances, the problem of ventilation in a confined space is particularly acute. For a garage, products are suitable for brickwork. They are equipped with gratings.

Factors affecting the level of illumination:

• garage area, its height;
• the number and nature of the placement of work areas (the size of the workbench for the garage, the viewing hole, the number of machines);
• type of decoration on the walls, its colors;
• indicator of the specific power of the network per 1 m²;
• type of lamps for the garage.

Various types of heating can be used to maintain the optimum temperature:

• gas;
• based on used oil;
• air;
• electric (infrared heater for the garage);
• furnace;
• water;

There are many alternative ways to independently organize a heating system.

Features of halogen, fluorescent and LED garage lights

Technical indicators of halogen lamps are in many ways similar to incandescent lamps, however, their bulb is filled with bromine vapor, so the products emit more light. The advantages of such lamps include long service life - 4 thousand hours.

Useful advice! Products must be placed in plafonds. It is also worth thinking about stabilization aimed at protecting against power surges. It is not recommended to touch such lamps with your hands (the expiration date is reduced).

Fluorescent lamps are filled with inert gases inside. From the inside, the flasks are covered with a specialized composition that emits light in ultraviolet under the influence of an arc-type discharge. Recommended models include products with IP-65 class, protected from moisture and dust particles.

Installation of LED lighting in the garage comes with the highest costs. Nevertheless, they pay off with 50 thousand working hours. In terms of efficiency, LEDs are 50% more profitable than fluorescent lamps. At the same time, they do not contain harmful components in their composition, and the light does not have an aggressive effect on the eyes, so there is no need to buy additional shades.

Installation of lighting in the garage: how to make a calculation

To calculate the power of conventional lamps, you can use the formula:

P = S x W/N.

Explanation of values:

• P is the total required power, W / m².
• W is the power of one lamp, W.
• N is the number of lamps (luminaires), pcs.
• S is the area of ​​the room, m².

For halogen and LED lamps, the optimal indicator is 16-20 W / m². This value is suitable for rooms where the ceiling height is no more than 2.5 m. In garages with 3-meter ceilings, this figure should be multiplied by 1.5.

The calculation is influenced by the interior decoration of the walls of the room. In dark garages, lighting should be brighter.

Light Reflection Level:

Room area, m²	Ceiling height, m	Wall finish color
		Dark	Light coloured
20	less than 3	0,6	0,75
50		0,75	0,9
100		0,85	1
20	3-5	0,4	0,55
50		0,6	0,75
100		0,75	0,9
50	5-7	0,4	0,55
100		0,6	0,75

To illuminate the viewing hole in the garage, it is recommended to use low-power lamps with halogen or LED lamps, since moisture accumulating in this place can provoke an electric shock. Devices are mounted on the sides in pre-made recesses.

Useful advice! So that an accidentally dropped tool does not break the lamp, the design of the lamps can be made retractable. When the pit is not in use, the appliances are securely hidden in the recesses.

Do-it-yourself autonomous lighting system in the garage

There are a number of principles on the basis of which an autonomous lighting system is implemented:

1. LED strips are mounted inside the ceiling lamps (300 diodes per element).
2. The output of the switch is carried out strictly on the shield.
3. A suspended ceiling system is used for electrical wiring.
4. The wires are powered by a battery connected to the network through a charger.

The multi-level lighting system for the garage is considered the most optimal. It involves the installation of a large lamp in the middle of the room and the installation of small lamps in work areas.

Height calculation for a multi-level system:

Level	Height, m
1	ceiling base
2	1,8
3	0,75
4	0,4

Lights are installed correctly if the machine does not cast a shadow on either side.

How to choose a heater for the garage

Garage heating is carried out using small portable devices that can warm up the room in a short time and further maintain the optimum temperature.

Thinking about which heaters are best for the garage, many mistakenly believe that a home-made device can be made exclusively from expensive components and requires a significant investment of time. For this reason, garage owners refuse this venture.

In fact, to make a garage heater with your own hands, it is enough to limit yourself to budget materials, for example, thermal film. The scheme for creating such a device is very simple and involves the use of the following materials and tools:

• a kit designed to assemble the heater;
• wire, equipped with a plug;
• paper laminate (the area of ​​one element is 1 m²);
• graphite powder;
• epoxy adhesive.

Useful advice! Be sure to have a multimeter with you. When assembling the device, this tool is useless, but it will be needed to check for performance.

Thermal, or - a common heating option in the garage

Recommendations for assembling a homemade heater for the garage

Step by step instructions on how to make a heater for the garage:

1. A mixture of glue and graphite powder is made. The more powder in the composition, the stronger the heating of the device will be. The average temperature ranges from 60-65°C.
2. Plastic sheets on the rough side are covered with a mixture of glue and graphite, which is applied in zigzag strokes, after which they are fastened with their faces and fixed with a frame made on the basis of wooden slats.
3. The terminals are fixed to the graphite conductors and the structure is dried. Drying must be complete, otherwise moisture will ruin the device.

After the heater has dried, a resistance test should be performed. A garage heater is considered safe only after this test. Until this moment, it is strictly forbidden to connect the device to the mains.

Security restrictions:

1. It is not recommended to leave the switched on device unattended or leave it near children.
2. It is forbidden to use equipment that can provoke a fire.
3. Flammable substances and materials must not be placed near the device.

Making useful DIY garage fixtures

To carry out repair and service work, you will need to build a viewing hole in the garage with your own hands, the dimensions of which will correspond to the dimensions of the car, as well as a workbench for convenient work, plus equip the room with machines.

The basic set of tools and materials for creating a homemade workbench for the garage includes:

• boards and wooden blocks;
• fasteners and ties;
• planer and other tools for woodworking;
• varnishing and carpentry adhesives;
• sandpaper and varnish.

An example of placing useful devices in the garage: 1 - with manual machines, 2 - racks and cabinets, 3 - a table for various repairs, 4 - a shelf for storing tires, 5 - an inspection hole

Do-it-yourself workbench manufacturing technology in the garage: photos, drawings

The workbench consists of a tabletop and underframe, as well as several clamping devices. The height of the workbench in the garage should be selected taking into account your own height. You can take as a guide the height of the kitchen table in the house, at which it is convenient to work. Be sure to draw up drawings to create.

Useful advice! Ready-made drawings of a workbench for a garage, which can be found on the Internet, are suitable as a basis for self-production of the structure. If desired, it can be customized to your requirements.

Arrangement of the garage: how to make a workbench indoors:

Stage of work	Details, size in cm	Mount type
Table top assembly	20 boards (5x10x200) with grooves 2.5x2.5 in the 5th and 16th element (step 25)	Adhesive composition metal ties
Drying	-	-
Production of legs (4 pcs.)	Bar (10x10x80) with grooves for brackets on the front supports	brackets
Assembling the underframe base	Frames (2 pcs.) from boards (5x10)	Spike connection to a depth of 2.5 cm and bolts
Fixation of side and rear support walls	Chipboard boards (thickness 10 mm)	screws
Fixing the table top to the top frame	-	bolts

The final processing involves the impregnation of the finished product with drying oil and opening with varnish.

Recommendations for creating a viewing hole in the garage with your own hands

There are no specific sizes of a viewing hole in the garage. The dimensions of the car are taken as the basis.

How to make a viewing hole in the garage with optimal parameters:

1. The width is chosen so that there is enough space inside to work. The size is limited by the distance at which the wheels of the car are planted. Each wheel needs a small area to perform maneuvers. The average width of the pit is 0.8 m.
2. The length of the pit is limited by the length of the machine. To this figure should be added 1 m.
3. The height of the garage owner is used to calculate the depth. Another 10-15 cm is added to it.

How to make a viewing hole in the garage using different materials:

Material	Wall thickness, cm
ceramic brick	12-25
Concrete	15
	20

The pit breaks out taking into account the optimal width of the pit, the material chosen for the walls, as well as the thickness of the waterproofing layer. Stages of creating a hole:

• markup;
• construction of a pit;
• arrangement of the pit;
• building walls;
• lighting pad.

For waterproofing walls, a specialized hydrophobic impregnation is used.

Useful advice! With the help of formwork, it is possible to make reinforced recesses in the walls of the pit for placing tools and lighting fixtures.

Making a press for a garage with your own hands

To create a press, a frame measuring 178x80 cm should be made from 4 pieces of metal pipes. These elements are connected by welding. In the work it is recommended to be guided by drawings, pre-selected or compiled. After that you need to install:

• retainer;
• removable stop;
• bottle jack (hydraulic).

You can use video materials to consider the detailed technology for creating useful garage accessories with your own hands. Such visual recommendations help you navigate the dimensions, master step-by-step instructions and imagine what appearance the finished structure should have.

Manufacturing scheme: 1 - upper power platform, 2 - nuts, 3 - lower platform, 4 - studs with a diameter of 30 mm, 5 - lower thread of the studs, 6 - bottle-type hydraulic jack; 7 - base 20 mm thick

You can do it yourself. The list of useful devices does not end there. It can always be supplemented with any interesting ideas. The main thing is that the garage fully meets personal requirements in terms of comfort and convenience.

The garage occupies a lot of space in the life of the strong half of humanity, even if the family does not have a car. In addition to being used as a car storage and maintenance room, the garage has a fairly wide range of functions, despite its rather limited area.

How can you arrange a garage?

To begin, consider several options for ergonomic use and design of the interior space of the garage:

• The garage box in its internal configuration in 99% of cases has a rectangular shape. Accordingly, the distance from the car to the side walls is not very large and is not comfortable for carrying out any work. The most common arrangement is to move the working area (workbench, shelving or cabinets with tools and spare parts) to the back of the garage, to the wall opposite the gate. In this area, there may be enough space even for the installation of any necessary equipment, in addition to the workbench.
• If there is an additional room in a large garage (utility room, electrical room), then on the surface of its door you can organize a tool storage using a hinged canvas or fill it with holders in the form of loops of various sizes made of plastic and ordinary ropes.

• The simplest option: if you can’t install a rack in the garage, you can place a metal grill at some distance from the wall. You can hang almost any objects, clothes and the like on it. You don't even have to install shelves.
• Another way out is to attach hooks to any surface. There are just not enough of them in the garage. You can make them yourself, or you can buy them in the supermarket. Significant space savings guaranteed.

Little tricks for the garage

So, the garage is purchased. At the initial stage of arrangement, we will talk about the purchase of furniture, most likely. Finding something that suits the owner and at the same time takes up a minimum of space is not so easy. The way out of this situation is to make the necessary pieces of furniture with your own hands.

Table with folding hinged top- ideal for a small garage. Such a stand does not take up much space, but can be a table of a very decent usable area. In its manufacture, the materials from which the old cabinet was made are often used.

Materials:

• furniture hinges;
• fasteners for wood;
• accessories;
• wooden bars;
• anchor.

First, markup is made, in which a building or household level is used.

Next steps:

• the bar is drilled through and fastened to the wall with anchors;
• holes are marked and drilled in the future plane of the table and the area for attaching the corners;

• the bar and the tabletop are connected by hinges;
• the table in the folded position is held by a standard bolt, lock or hook, which is fixed to the wall;
• the table supports are simply leaned against the wall next to the table.

How to make a drill stand?

Making a mini-drilling machine with your own hands does not require high qualifications, but it greatly expands the scope of an ordinary electric drill. In addition, the machine will turn out to be much cheaper than purchased, and components can be borrowed from previously used devices.

Making a wooden rack will take quite a bit of time and will not require any special materials and tools:

• wooden bars or boards not thinner than 20 mm;
• furniture guides;

• a metal bar with a thread for a caliper;
• fasteners for wooden parts (screws, glue);
• emery.

Instruments:

• hacksaw;
• vise;
• screwdriwer set;
• electric drill.

The dimensions of the mini-machine are chosen according to the size of the working space in the garage.

Making a metal rack requires a little more time and materials, so you need to cover it in a little more detail.

The proposed rack made of metal is more versatile than the one made of wood and includes:

• carrier frame;
• guide racks of the drill, to which it is attached and moved vertically;

• tool vertical feed handle;
• additional nodes for ease of use.

How to make a flyover for car repair?

It's no secret that a car needs regular maintenance and minor repairs, like any technically complex mechanism. For ease of access to the components and assemblies located on the bottom of the car, they often use a do-it-yourself light overpass, which will significantly save money spent on service station masters.

Overpasses are full and small. Strictly speaking, overpasses function in the same way as inspection pits.

The need to build such a useful invention is most often dictated by the high boundary of the aquifer in the place where the garage is built, which makes it impossible to equip a viewing hole.

It is quite possible to mount the flyover with your own hands. For this case, drawings, an action plan and accounting for the dimensions of the car are needed:

• the total length of the overpass is usually taken from the calculation - the length of the car + 1 m;
• ladder width - more than 40 cm;
• support height - 70-80 cm.

Ladders are made from a corner, pedestals are welded from a corner with a shelf width of 50 mm. The surface of the ladder is made of corrugated steel with a cross section of more than 14 mm.

How to assemble a compressor for a garage?

When servicing a car, and for other work in the home and garage, there is often a need for an air compressor. It will help in painting, and when inflating tires, when blowing off dust, and in many other cases.

The simplest compressor for painting a car can be assembled from an old car camera.

Here is a description of the necessary materials and tools to bring this idea to life:

• the camera itself will serve as the receiver;
• supercharger - a pump, it is desirable that it has a pressure gauge;
• tire repair kit;
• awl.

Procedure:

• check the chamber for damage with a pump and eliminate them if they are found;
• make a hole in the receiver to release a jet of compressed air;

• glue an additional fitting and connect it to the spray gun;
• unscrew the nipple in it to give air a free passage;

• leave the "native" chamber nipple - it will be used as a valve, holding excess pressure;
• by testing, determine the desired air pressure of the receiver, spraying the paint and ensuring that it lies evenly;
• the main rule is that nothing extraneous should be in the chamber: moisture, particles of dirt and dust.

If you have a minimum amount of assembly skills for more complex structures, you can suggest trying to assemble a compressor of a greater degree of complexity and versatility, which can be used to measure the amount of atmosphere in car tires, paint, blow and blow off dust.

The method is inexpensive, even if there are not a lot of improvised materials in the garage.

Installation is carried out from:

• old refrigeration unit;
• air receiver up to 10 l;

• pressure gauge for air receiver;
• air pressure regulator;

• high pressure hose (20 bar);
• the most inexpensive filter-regulator;

• several clamps;
• adapters.

The compressor does not take up much space, so it is quite possible to install it in a niche on the wall or on a wall shelf made by yourself, where the need dictates.

This type of compressor receiver has three outputs:

• the upper one supplies compressed air;
• the middle one is used by the pressure gauge in the receiver;
• condensate and oil are drained through the bottom.

Principle of operation: the compressor sucks in air through the lower part, where the filter regulator and the toggle switch are installed. Regulator pressure limits - from two atmospheres to eight.

To insure against trouble, for safety, you can install a relief valve.

How to make a hoist crane?

No one will deny that from time to time any car needs to be serviced, and from time to time repaired. Serious repairs are not cheap pleasure, so many car owners undertake to do it in the garage or in the country with their own hands. For example, when repairing an engine, significant physical efforts will be required when removing it and installing it after repair in place.

A crane with a winch can be of great help in such operations. It can be equipped in the garage both by purchasing it in a supermarket, and with your own hands, according to a simple scheme.

The most practical way to place such a beam crane is over the front of a car put in a garage. If the outreach is 1 meter, then the working area will be around 5 m².

The base in this embodiment will be sheet steel 400x400x25 mm. A rod with a diameter of 80 mm is welded into it, attached to the ceiling with M16 bolts.

It is necessary to monitor compliance with horizontal levels, since often the floor or ceiling of the garage can have a slope in one direction or another.

The boom is made of a 1-meter strut, 50x50 angles and a cup with two pressed-in bronze bearing bushings. The entire structure is fixed with a splinted shaped nut M42x2.

Pit and cellar

Usable space is not limited to the garage box itself: you rarely see a garage without a cellar, where both racks for pickles and marinades, and departments for fruits and vegetables collected on the native "six acres" are so perfectly placed.

The situation is as follows: a garage is built/bought/rented, the car needs repair or just maintenance, and there is no inspection hole in the garage. There is a way out - to build it with your own hands.

In general, the inspection pit should be of such dimensions that the owner can accommodate and work in it comfortably.

For this, the dimensions of the pit are measured:

• length pits are selected in accordance with the length of the base of the car + 1 meter;
• width determined by measuring the distance between the front wheels minus 20 cm to ensure that the car does not fall through at the entrance;
• depth choose according to the height of the car owner + 20 cm.

Life hack: 30 cm must be added to all the obtained dimensions. This is done for the proposed installation of hydro and thermal insulation.

Consider the construction process itself in stages:

• The dimensions of the pit are marked.

Life hack. If the floor screed is already available, then you will have to organize the order of work as follows: mark up and then cut it with a grinder or some other tool.

• We observe the parallelism of the floor with the help of a level, carefully ram it. Usually, a crushed stone pillow is placed on the floor of the pit as the first layer, then in order: 5 cm of sand, 30 cm of clay, reinforced mesh, which is poured with concrete with a layer of 7 cm. lay a layer of foam and the next layer of concrete 15 cm.

• The walls of the pit are coated with clay, polyethylene is laid, and roofing material is placed on it and all joints, as on the floor, are coated with mastic.

• Creating formwork is the most time-consuming operation: it is made up of plywood sheets or boards, leaving a gap of 7 cm from the wall.

• The wall is reinforced and poured with concrete.

Life hack: in height, pouring is done at a speed of 20 cm per day, not faster.

• Niches can be made in the walls; ceramic tiles are necessarily used as cladding.

When arranging a cellar in a garage, the most reliable solution is to use a caisson. If you wonder what a caisson is, it is best to turn to a few life hacks that will explain its purpose.

Simply put, a caisson is a can. An ordinary large waterproof canister, tank, or anything that looks like them. It is used as a basement impervious to soil moisture.

It consists of:

• over-caisson structure (this is the entrance to the hatch of the cellar);
• a cylindrical chamber with dimensions of 2 m in height and a diameter of 1 m, this is the best option in terms of the proportion of "volume / materials used";
• the caisson is additionally waterproofed from moisture with various bituminous mastics, an asphalt layer or various solutions, again based on bitumen.

Let's take a look at some useful tips and tricks in this regard:

• The walls of the caisson must withstand significant external pressure; one should not save on their thickness.
• Welds should be welded twice, and anti-corrosion agents are highly recommended.

• When using a caisson, it is imperative to equip a reliable ventilation system for it.
• The list of basic storage units is almost the same: canned food and marinades, other home-made stocks, rolled up in jars and other containers, raw vegetables and fruits. Therefore, their storage conditions must be taken into account.

• Ventilation requires special attention: the natural ventilation option is not always suitable due to the lack of the possibility of its artificial regulation. Forced ventilation is better.
• If there is no caisson, for waterproofing a so-called sand cushion 25-30 cm thick is laid on the floor, it is covered with roofing material or other material on top, the seams are glued with bitumen or mastic.

• Raw vegetables are stored on the floor in boxes. Carrots and beets are additionally sprinkled with sand.
• Wood shelving tends to get moldy over time. To avoid this, they are covered with protective mixtures.

• Steel racks do not have this drawback, but they tend to corrode, so they are treated with water-repellent materials.
• Plastic racks are resistant to moisture and corrosion, but are fragile enough and cannot carry a large weight load.

• The depth of the cellar is directly proportional to the depth of the aquifer in that particular area, unless a caisson is used.
• When using a caisson, it is necessary to take measures so that it is not squeezed out by groundwater to the surface.
• The floor of the cellar should be located at least 1 meter from the upper boundary of the aquifer.

How to make a workbench?

Who has seen a garage that doesn't have a workbench with a vise attached to it? Or a garage without shelves, mezzanines, hanging cabinets on the walls? Without a stand for checking or car maintenance?

By the look of the interior of the garage, you can immediately tell who its owner is and how functional this or that option for using the internal space is, how much it optimizes it for operation.

A large and comfortable workbench in the garage is its undeniable advantage. If you organize boxes for tools and parts in it, then it will turn into a universal place of work. Usually such a workbench is made for the entire width of the garage with drawers of various sizes.

For its installation with dimensions of 660x100x60 cm, you need:

• saw;
• plywood of various thicknesses;
• polyurethane;
• paints;
• grinder;
• fixture.

Operating procedure:

• for a workbench measuring 660x100x60 cm, you will need to cut 4 sheets 20 mm thick;
• for the work surface it is better to use polished plywood;

• boxes are made from strips 0.6x4.8 m, 13 mm thick;
• rack sections are assembled from 20 fragments 61x61 cm in size;

• each vertical row of boxes is calculated as follows: 3 small and 1 deep;
• the depth of the guide grooves is 1.27 cm;

• additionally cut a 254 mm groove at the bottom of the cabinet and three grooves 127 mm apart and 146 mm from the top of the cabinet;
• the necessary rigidity of the structure is created by reinforcing the rear wall with plywood strips;

• we assemble all the structures for five boxes and fasten them together, then fix them to the wall with fixing screws so that there is free space under them for oversized items;
• assemble boxes from plywood 13 mm thick;

• handles are cut out in the front wall of the box or purchased ready-made and fixed with self-tapping screws;
• the dimensions of the lower drawers are 120x25x5 cm and 60x25x5 cm;

• a frame 60x120 cm is attached to the working surface of the workbench;
• The finishing of the workbench is sanding and painting in several layers.
• varnish finish is allowed.

How to make shelving?

Shelving is one of the most common rational solutions for organizing free space when placing things in a limited volume of a house or garage box. The surfaces of the walls of the box just call for leaning a rack against them or strengthening a dozen or two shelves and putting a wide variety of items on them: from fishing accessories and clothes to a boat motor and a spare engine block.

A garage rack can be purchased at retail chains - this is an option that requires almost no energy consumption. Mounting / dismantling of such structures is elementary and does not require highly qualified fitter.

Perfect for all categories of garage owners, but quite expensive and will require some capital investment.

You can try to make a rack yourself from improvised or purchased materials: from pipe scraps, a profile or a corner, from pieces of plywood, chipboard, plastic.

Instead of drawers, it is quite possible to use ordinary plastic canisters. The canister is located horizontally, and by the handle, which was in front, it is pulled out and returned to its place.

The only thing that should not be forgotten is that it is forbidden to use canisters and other containers from chemically aggressive, radioactive or combustible substances that can be harmful to health. The best option is a drinking water canister.

To make a rack of aluminum or other metal yourself, you need to prepare, take measurements, calculate the load and select the material for the product. You should also take into account what communications take place in the place where it is planned to mount the rack.

• First, determine the external dimensions of the product.
• Then calculate the number of shelves, their height. It makes sense to make them of unequal height, since the sizes of storage items vary.

• It is irrational to make sections of too large a width - the load capacity of the shelves will decrease sharply, and the possibility of collapse will increase.
• The drawing should begin with a sketch of the rack, its schematic representation with preliminary dimensions, giving a general idea of ​​\u200b\u200bwhat should be the result.

• The next step will be cutting the vertical parts.
• All parts are cut into one length from a solid profile or corner. It is not recommended to compose them from separate parts.

• Sometimes metal or metal-plastic pipes are used as risers.
• The material for the shelves is chosen taking into account its strength. For example, shelves made of chipboard and fiberboard will not support significant weight due to their relative fragility.

• Design shelves no wider than 60 cm.
• The presence of an edging (side) at the shelf will serve in two directions at once - it will create an additional stiffener and prevent small parts from falling.

• First install vertical racks. The method of attachment (to the floor, ceiling, walls) should be considered at the stage of drawing up the drawing.
• When installing, be sure to use the level to avoid distortions.
• Shelves are fixed with corners.

Let's take a look at some useful life hacks:

• Sometimes, to save space, shelves are attached directly to the ceiling without the use of vertical supports on the floor. Hinged shelves can free up space in the lower tier of the garage box, but they cannot differ in special carrying capacity. You can stack on them oversized, but light long-length slats, plastic corners, cardboard pipes, etc. They can also be made mesh - then you can additionally hang something on them with hooks.
• Another popular way to use a wall is to arrange a metal or plastic panel with fasteners (hooks, brackets, etc.) instead of a rack, this will save a lot of free space.
• To create a small gap between the wall and the panel, the use of wine corks sawn in half is recommended.

Mounted structures

The problem of storing small parts, screws, washers, bolts and other fasteners in the garage is quite acute. On the one hand, they should always be at hand, on the other hand, they are easy enough to lose and drop on the floor. There are several options for solving the problem. Here is one of the interesting, simple and low-cost options - only ingenuity and a new look at using ordinary things.

First you need to decide on the required number of cells of the desired size.

For work you will need:

• 4 metal rails 2.2 m long each;
• electric drill;
• fixture.

In our case (see photo), there are 24 identical cells in a row. There are four rows in total, the size of each cell is 14x10x7.5 cm. In a metal rail (in our case, its length is 2 m), it is necessary to drill holes for fastening to the wall with a drill for the entire length of the row. Saving is not recommended, as the rail will hold cells filled with metal parts. Next, the rails are attached to the wall. We attach cells to the rails. Ready!

original variants

You have to do a lot in the garage with your own hands, because among the whole variety of goods that modern industry offers us, there is not always something that fully satisfies the demand of a picky and skilled owner.

In this case, we are talking not only about furniture (cabinets, racks, shelves, tables, workbenches), but also about all kinds of home-made devices that make life so much easier when there is a sudden need to perform a non-standard operation.

The garage performs a wide variety of functions: from a pantry and a workshop to a rembox and a resting place. In any case, there are a lot of original ideas embodied in useful, necessary and functional gadgets and homemade products for the garage, which are quite affordable for making from improvised do-it-yourself tools.

• To protect against drafts, it is often recommended to lay a kind of felt “sausage” under the garage door. It helps a lot when working inside the garage in the winter season.
• A spare set of tires is stored hanging or on its side. If there are no discs, tires are stored vertically with a mandatory change in their position once a month.

• To place them in a standing position, it is recommended to construct a storage place on the wall with your own hands. In fact, this is a wall-mounted triangular frame into which tires are inserted in a standing position. The farther the frame is installed from the heaters, the better the tires will last.
• It’s good if there are used tires in the garage that have not yet been scrapped. If you put a piece of plywood or chipboard on top of such a tire and decorate it with decor, it will turn into such an elegant little thing as an author's stool.

• With a lack of driving experience, you can fix the used tire on the wall opposite the gate as a bump stop. This craft will significantly reduce the risk of scratching the bumper when parking the car.
• From an old tire, a homemade little thing is obtained for storing small things. Attaching the tire to the wall is quite simple, and this option will look spectacular. For flower growers, the shelf will easily turn into a flower bed if the tire is placed outside the garage.

• Storage of various keys (ring, combination, adjustable) on hooks is advantageous and preferable from several points of view at once. Several keys on one hook, they are clearly visible, take up little space, all are available at once.
• Rags are very convenient to store using a wall holder, which uses ordinary clothespins. Rags will always be at hand, no need to waste time looking for them.

• To make notes "for memory", you need a board and chalk. But this is completely optional: cover the cabinet door, part of the gate, some kind of shield or just a free flat section of the wall with graphite paint and make a schedule on it, leave notes or write down the dimensions of the future shelving.
• From an old 200-liter barrel with the help of a grinder, you will get a wonderful chair if you beat it with foam rubber or rubber. It can become the basis of a table for something necessary.

• Drawers with various things on the garage floor will become much more mobile if you attach wheels from old office chairs to them.
• If, in addition to hooks, a figuratively cut plank with holes and staples is attached to the wall above the workbench, it will be very helpful when storing and using pencils, drills, bobbins with thread or twine.

• The same applies to various kinds of loops and straps attached to the garage wall.
• If you attach lids to the bottom surface of the wall cabinet, it is very convenient to wrap jars on them, in which various little things are stored.
• Another possibility of using them: an electric cable is pulled through the hole in the lid, and a cartridge with a lamp is placed in the jar - the lampshade is ready!

Garage doors are a very essential and important part of boxing. They carry a fairly significant load, serve as the main obstacle for robbers, and need thermal insulation. To all of the above, we can add that the gate should be as convenient as possible to use for the owner of the garage.

The version of doors equipped with tension springs or torsion springs is not yet very popular in Russia compared to the "classic" version, but they deserve attention precisely because of their ease of use.

Tension springs are usually used with doors smaller than 8 m². They do not require a high headroom due to the use of side mounted extension springs. They are easier to install, and their price is lower than the gates that use torsion springs. Unfortunately, the built-in gate cannot be installed in such gates.

Torsion springs are used when installing gates over 8 m². 3 types of mounting are allowed: standard, low, high. A big plus in the operation of doors of this type is protection against falling of the door leaf when the springs fail and low noise operation, as in the version with a built-in wicket.

For the rational use of space, communications and do-it-yourself garage accessories from improvised materials are used. It is necessary to involve the walls, the underground level in the process, to place machines inside the room, to organize normal lighting.

Homemade garage fixtures

For comfortable operation of the premises intended for storing cars, you should follow certain recommendations:

• the tool must be as accessible as possible;
• storage areas equipped with shelves / racks are much more convenient;
• workbenches, a viewing hole, home-made machines and do-it-yourself garage accessories expand the capabilities of the car owner;
• the cellar allows you to save the space of the site;
• the quality of lighting depends on the performance of work, minor repairs.

Organization of workspace inside the garage

Depending on the dimensions of the building, the area occupied by equipment, fixtures, communications should not be more than 10 - 20% of the size of the garage floor.

Storage areas, racks, workbenches

In 80% of cases, do-it-yourself garage fixtures are built to store accessories, tools, and car equipment. It should be noted that the most bulky parts of the car are sets of winter / summer tires, depending on the season.

Tire storage rules

It is more convenient to store wheels on brackets of the following design:

• two triangular frames from a corner, connected by jumpers from any rolled metal;
• triangles are attached to the wall, the wheels are installed perpendicular to the supporting structure, slightly falling between the jumpers.

Wheel storage brackets

This is the most economical option for storing rubber in the off-season. The most demanded by motorists are straight and corner workbenches. The lower space is usually filled with shelves or drawers; grinding machines and a vice are located on the table top.

Homemade garage workbench

An example of organizing a corner workplace

A folding workbench can be very convenient

Wood is a versatile material for both workbenches and shelving

It is easier to build a wooden workbench on your own, but it has a smaller resource than an analogue from rolled metal that needs to be welded. If corners for shelves are not laid in the load-bearing walls during construction, it is easier to make racks from rolled metal or lumber.

Homemade garage shelving

Use for glass bottle racks

Built-in wardrobes are very compact

Original hanging shelves are suitable for storing long items

The design and layout of shelving inside each garage is too individual to follow general guidelines.

Observation hole and cellar

An inspection hole becomes a necessary device for a garage with your own hands. Moreover, the owner does not have to do all the repairs himself. Underground communication can be used in the following cases:

• inspection of the running, steering, braking system before a long trip;
• an oil change that saves money and does not take much time;
• minor repairs, which allows the qualification of the owner.

Inspection hole in the garage

The entrance to the cellar is more convenient to arrange from the pit, as this will allow you to concrete several steps instead of using a ladder.

Cellar under the garage

The main nuances of these structures are:

• swelling of clay soils is harmful to underground structures;
• therefore, all elements of the pit and cellar are insulated with polystyrene foam from the outside;
• in the underlying layer before concreting, backfilling of the sinuses of the pits, sand or crushed stone is used;
• along the perimeter of underground structures at the level of the sole, drains are laid to collect and drain water.

The width of the pit should allow the driver to drive into it without lighting.

Lighting and ventilation

In garages, parallel lighting circuits are more often used. One lamp allows you to use a specific area, several devices are turned on during a major repair, a visit to the cellar. The minimum power consumption is provided by LED lamps. Daylight devices have a large resource.

Cars use poisonous, harmful fuels and lubricants, so do-it-yourself garage ventilation devices are becoming relevant, allowing you to create air exchange. The inflow is organized from below:

• garage - vents in masonry, protected by bars;
• cellar - a pipe from the garage or from the street.

Ventilation of the garage and cellar under it

The hood is mounted under the ceiling of the cellar, the roof of the garage or has the form of air vents in the main walls at the highest points.

Related article:

Do-it-yourself ventilation in the garage. From this publication you will learn why garage ventilation is so important, what air exchange schemes exist, and installation nuances.

Other Helpful Ideas

Useful do-it-yourself garage accessories can be made from used utensils, inventory, materials left after construction. For example, by gluing the lids of plastic jars horizontally / vertically, the owner gets a convenient transparent dish for equipment or hardware, which is always at hand.

Device for storing small parts, tools, hardware

Interesting PVC Pipe Screwdriver Storage Rack

Homemade machines

From a power tool, you can assemble home-made machines and accessories for the garage:

• drilling - a drill fixed with clamps in a fixture that moves with a gear along a rail;

Drilling machine from a drill

• cutting - clamped in a similar way with an angle grinder with a tool for metal or wood;

Cutting machine from angle grinder

• wood lathe - headstock from a drill, back from a cartridge, mounted on a frame made of a square pipe.

Drill lathe

The advantage of the machines is more precise positioning of the tooling relative to the workpiece. The equipment turns out to be collapsible, the drill and angle grinder can be removed mono, used for its intended purpose.

Related article:

Lathe for metal for the garage. Types of machines, specifications, design, overview of popular models in a special publication of our online magazine.

Hydropress

The simplest design of a hydraulic press is obtained from an automobile hydraulic jack. For pressing out / pressing in bearings, pressing / compressing parts, you will need to build a frame and a removable movable stop. The frame consists of 4 channels welded to each other. At the top, the structure is reinforced with stiffening ribs (kerchiefs), at the bottom, transverse corners are added to give the frame stability.

Do-it-yourself hydraulic press from a jack

The stop is pulled up in the normal position to the upper crossbar of the frame by powerful springs. A hydraulic jack is installed between them, as necessary pressing the stop to the lower crossbar of the frame. The force of the press is regulated by a jack, the dimensions of the working area are selected depending on the size of the workpieces.

And finally, a few more examples of useful things for the garage.

Shelving on the ceiling

Pockets for storing cutting discs from disposable plates

Device for convenient use of threads and ropes

PVC pipe cuttings are the ideal material for creating convenient storage areas.

Convenient pull-out racks for tool storage

Interesting do-it-yourself homemade garage

Ready "motorhome" over time acquires a large number of tools. Ordinary homemade products for the garage bring practical benefits without cash overpayments. Any do-it-yourself machines will not be inferior in quality to factory counterparts. Let's take a look at some of the fixtures.

Knife sharpener

So, a useful device gets a hole for the stem in the bolt. The rod is made by hand from thin wire. The carving is done taking into account the length of the whetstones.

Bar Clip can be crafted from:

• organic glass;
• ebonite;
• saw clamp.

The upper part of the plate acts as a clamp. The surface with two drilled holes is applied to the frame. Then, closer to the knife, a common through hole is made. A thread is cut in the frame.

So, a home-made device with your own hands is almost ready. The second hole is made only on the plate away from the knife. Then cut the thread for the bolt (needed for tightening). A simple homemade mechanism for the garage allows you to sharpen knives on the go.

A bar made of artificial diamonds is affordable and very wear-resistant.

Pulley for adjusting the speed and load on the engine of the machine

• metal;
• textolite;
• plywood (something between wood and metal).

In plywood, one small and two larger circles are cut with a jigsaw. The center of the molds must match the diameter of the shaft. So that there are no problems with further manipulations, the circles are glued together or sit on a screw and tightened with a nut.

Details of a useful device are tightened with screws. Then the pulley should be processed with sandpaper or a file, putting the structure on the drill chuck. The finished fragment of the machine can be additionally proliferated.

1. Avoid vibration, make sure that the center of gravity falls on the axis of rotation.
2. You can make a toothed pulley. At the central circle, small tubules are made to all stages of assembly.
3. If necessary, a small pulley is made from a thick piece of plywood (one circle). A groove is made in the mold, the part is mounted on the screw. A narrow file is applied to the rotating circle.

Do-it-yourself vacuum forming of sheet plastic

• top and bottom frames;
• molding plastic;
• tie bolts;
• perforated MDF;
• opening for the vacuum chamber;
• plywood base with a hole in the middle.

In a fragment of MDF or plywood (50 by 50 cm), a hole is made for a PVC pipe with a three-inch diameter. A frame of bars (30 by 30 cm) is attached to the resulting base with glue. To obtain tightness, all cavities are smeared with sealant.

The edge of the water pipe is glued to the base with one end, and the other end is attached to the vacuum cleaner hose. The whole structure is on its feet.

Certain holes are cut in the upper and lower frames to accommodate the vacuum chamber frame (strongly glued to the base). Cavities for fasteners are made along the perimeter of the frame at an equal distance.

Types of thermoplastic used:

DIY jigsaw

1. A steel square with a bolt soldered into it is made by hand as a file holder block.
2. The improved block is soldered to the old saw holder.
3. Focus on the desktop. Plywood is chosen as the base. The narrow area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe table in size repeats the parameters of the jigsaw.
4. Furniture legs are mounted in the front plane of the table, a small wooden stand is fixed to the back plane of the working area.
5. To create a lever, use only hardwoods.
6. The lever hole must be created a little larger than the diameter of the stud (regulates the spring tension).

The described home-made craft should stand on a "sole" that will not interfere with the workflow. If necessary, a corner is cut in the area of ​​the base plate.

A set of cutters for artistic turning with your own hands

A semicircular grooved chisel is used for rough turning. The part is made from strips of tool steel.

Universal cutting device is used for finishing parts. The tool is made from standard straight chisels.

Shape cutters:

chisel-scraper.

a tool based on a straight chisel with one-sided sharpening levels the surface of cylindrical blanks;

a home-made device helps to thread and apply decorative risks to a wooden rod.

The cutting tool for soft wood species (aspen, linden) has a smaller sharpening angle compared to the sharpening angle of the device for processing boxwood, oak, birch.

Homemade extension cord with two outlets

The "proprietary" reel for the extension cord is made from two plywood discs that are bolted together. The fragments are separated by a duralumin tube and washers.

On one side of the reel, the bolts are recessed so that contact with the handle is without injury. On the other side, two holes for sockets are drilled at a certain distance. Socket boxes are attached with screws.

Proper storage and use of the tool

Each pipe is fastened with a plywood plate with self-tapping screws through the slot. To prevent the pipe fragment from loosening during operation, pieces of glazing beads are glued under the sides of the holder with PVA glue.

When it is necessary to hang the holder on the garage wall, the handle is inserted into the tube of the holder. The handle stand fits snugly into the slot and is fixed. With such additional equipment, the coil is mounted on the ceiling or on the bottom of the shelves.

To make the ram of the extension easily rotate, a small handle is mounted on the edge of the disk of the device, which consists of tubular sections of various diameters. A larger diameter pipe is put on a smaller hose and rigidly fixed with a flat screw.

DIY homemade for the garage: the best ideas with photos

Useful DIY garage crafts

Most often, during the initial arrangement, all the necessary furniture is ordered. But if you rent a room or do not want to take money out of the family budget for this, then you will be able to settle on your own, especially if you know how to hold basic tools in your hands. To help yourself and for inspiration, you can use the video from do-it-yourself homemade for the garage (youtube can please you with a variety of ideas), or you can take into account the tips for arranging, which will be the basis for a successful layout.

If you look at the photo that demonstrates the optimal set of useful furniture elements, then note the useful nuances for yourself. First, the location of any storage system must be located at a certain distance from the walls. It is believed that there should be at least half a meter between the machine standing inside the room and the rack for normal, comfortable work inside. If the shape of your car storage is more like a rectangle rather than a square (this happens quite often), then it is worth moving all the storage for tools and useful things into one zone along the far wall opposite the door. It is here that you can, with maximum convenience, put not only a table or a rack, but even a carpentry or lathe. It would be useful to mention that all the storage of your tools should be located inside the garage only if it is securely closed or protected by tightly closed gates in the country. Otherwise, it is better to place there only the most necessary, preferably, not of particular value to the robbers.

If you provide for the installation of windows with your own hands in a separate room, which is located on the territory of your suburban area, then it is better to make them of the so-called attic type, that is, located in the roof, and choose a place just above such a work area. In summer and spring, such an arrangement of windows will help you save on lighting, there will be enough sunlight for all types of work, and besides, you can also ventilate the room, because ventilation can not always cope well, especially if you are going to work out inside, like in a workshop.

With a total shortage of money or for the love of art, you can also make an original storage system using old empty canisters. Any motorist accumulates quite a lot of them in a year, and if you ask your neighbors, then there will be enough of such an interesting locker for each compartment. Of course, there is nothing complicated here, and to perform such do-it-yourself homemade for the garage video- Lessons are not needed. You need to take a plastic canister, wash it well so that no traces of its contents remain. Armed with metal scissors, a knife or other tool, we cut off the front cover from the canister, but so that the sides remain and the contents do not overflow. To make the structure more stable, you can fix it on the back wall with self-tapping screws, but we will, of course, drive them not into the wall, but into a wooden rail, which we attach to dowels.

Do-it-yourself homemade for the garage photo

The same option as shown in the photo can be used in homemade products for summer cottages, because there, too, you often need to equip a workshop, and even less space is allocated for it than remains in the garage. For such a design, you will need to build a frame from wooden boards, and make notches along its upper and lower edges, where the cells will be inserted. Most likely, the inspiration for this design was the classic hives that are used in breeding bees, the system here is exactly the same. Sheets that are inserted inside have a perforated surface and the presence of these small holes will allow you to screw carnations inside, hang hooks to hang tools and useful devices as conveniently as possible so that they do not fly off when pulling out and pushing in.

Exactly the same perforation can be inscribed in a furniture set. With such a complete set of everything you need for a home craftsman, you can build a lot of useful homemade for the garage with your own hands, video who are online. In terms of popularity, such resources may soon overtake popular hand-made projects, because men, no less than women, want to make the space around them, their kingdom, beautiful, functional, and comfortable.

Interesting do-it-yourself homemade for the garage

We are accustomed to either simply throwing out tires that are completely worn out, or we can make crafts from tires for the garden with our own hands. Having exhausted the last winter set for a swan or a flowerpot, this year you may well single it out for yourself by making a whole furniture set. Frankly, not only car tires, but also bicycle tires will come in handy for this purpose, because they can be used to construct backrests, turning a stool into an armchair.

Practice making such furniture and soon you will be able to completely replace your coffee table with such a table in the living room with your own hands, tire crafts not only look beautiful, but can also become part of the original design concept.

A table and chairs are great, there will be somewhere to sit, but with the question of how to cook a delicious barbecue, our next idea will help here. The fact is that an ordinary folding brazier may not maintain the required temperature of coals for a long time, and if you like to sit around the fire for a long time, you should make something more ambitious. We will modernize the garden wheel crafts a little and present to your attention a brazier made on the basis of a wheel rim. In order for the rim to maintain the set temperature well and prevent the coals from cooling down, it must be overlaid with bricks, but for the maximum decorative effect of such a homemade product, it is better to file them a little with a grinder to fold them in a circle. The bottom must be covered with any available material that does not support combustion, for example, crushed stone of a fine fraction.

Do-it-yourself homemade garage drawings

If you plan to spend a lot of time in your impromptu workshop, then among the ones you are interested in do-it-yourself homemade for the garage - heating, lighting, ventilation, that is, the arrangement of a full-fledged comfortable stay inside for a long time. Some people prefer to install infrared heaters, but in terms of the cost of electricity, this will not be a very rational option. Water heating can be a good option, but it is best designed in garages that are located next to a residential building.

You can place solid fuel boilers of any design inside any type of garage, even make your own metal stove-stove using a welding machine. But do not forget that with this type of heating, the interior decoration should be made of non-combustible materials, and the ventilation should be done with high quality, even at the stage when we build the roof with our own hands, in order to remove all combustion products from the room in a timely manner.

DIY homemade machines for the garage

If you have a need for some specific work, then you can use special machines, for example, a pipe bending machine, which can be useful not only for motorists, but also for motorcycle owners.

DIY Garage Tools - Turn your caravan into a home workshop!

Necessary tools and materials

Any car enthusiast is able to make a variety of garage accessories with their own hands, using inexpensive materials and the simplest tool. Such home-made crafts of a home craftsman turn a caravan into a full-fledged workshop.

Garage workbench - it's hard to do without it!

If you plan to do your own maintenance of your vehicle in the garage, as well as make a variety of repairs and do your own crafts, it will be difficult to do without a workbench. It is usually made of wooden boards, which are mounted on a reliable base (metal profiled pipe or wooden thick beam).

It is allowed to make a desktop from metal blanks. It is easy to cut them to the required dimensions and assemble them into one solid structure using steel corners and hardware (universal self-tapping screws, screw connections, bolts, and so on) or using a welding machine.

The manufacture of a wooden or metal workbench always begins with a detailed design drawing. You must correctly evaluate the working space of your garage and fit the desktop into it as harmoniously as possible. It is advisable to provide for the presence of shelves and drawers (drawers) on the workbench. They allow you to keep all sorts of tools close at hand. It is recommended to install a small vise on the countertop.

Making a metal workbench

If your garage has shelves or racks (or you want to mount them), experts advise installing a workbench next to them.

Then you will get an excellent work area where you can do any homework, producing original and useful homemade crafts for the home.

1. Assemble the tabletop from boards with geometric parameters suitable for you (for example, 200 by 10 by 5 cm), connecting wooden products to each other with metal ties and good glue. For a standard workbench, suitable for any garage, it is enough to take 20 of these boards.
2. On the countertop, make special grooves (on 5 and 16 boards in a row) for stops. The groove parameters are 2.5 by 2.5 cm.
3. After the glue has dried, the countertop must be planed so that a perfectly flat work surface is obtained.
4. From bars 80 by 10 by 10 cm you make legs for a workbench. Grooves should be provided in the front supports. You will insert brackets into them, which you will then connect to the beam (longitudinal).
5. Assemble the base of the underframe from two frames made of boards 10 by 5 cm, and fix it to the support. The frames are cut into the legs of the workbench by about 2.5 cm, and then they are bolted.
6. Attach the supporting walls (rear and side) to the resulting structure. They can be made from centimeter plywood or chipboard sheets.

Now you need to connect the top frame to the table top. This operation is carried out without problems with the help of bolts. Do not forget to apply drying oil to the made wooden workbench and varnish it. On such a table, you will make any crafts with special pleasure!

Shelving is a must for the garage!

The motorhome of any vehicle owner over time turns into a kind of warehouse where a variety of items and tools are stored. They all need to find a comfortable place so that each fixture is easy to find. A hand-made rack allows you to efficiently organize the storage of tools.

You can make such a design from metal and wood. In the latter case, use solid wood - beech or oak. Shelves and drawers from them are able to withstand quite serious loads. According to accepted standards, the rack must hold a pressure of at least 150–160 kg. At the same time, it is not recommended to load home-made structures with things that generally weigh more than 500 kg.

Wood rack

Let's see how you can quickly make a garage rack, spending a minimum of money on the purchase of materials. The scheme of work is as follows:

1. Take a board 9 cm wide, cut it into pieces of different sizes (18–30 cm). We will use these segments as supports for the rack.
2. Make shelves from a more powerful board - 19 cm thick. To do this, you will need to saw it into pieces of the desired length.
3. Mark the board for the base of the structure, indicating on it the location of the spacers (they are usually removed from the edge of the base by 2.5–3 cm). Now you need to attach (it is advisable to use construction glue) the top spacer and nail to it (with ordinary nails of suitable sizes) the top shelf of the rack. Then repeat these manipulations with other shelves and spacers. At the very last turn, the lower expanding element is attached.
4. Turn the assembled structure over, tighten the base of the rack with spacers using screws.

The building for storing various tools and things is almost ready. You only need to sand the rack and then apply oil varnish to the wood (it is better to do two layers), and then attach the self-made structure to the wall with anchor screws. The places where the rack is attached to the wall are under the lowest and highest shelves.

Useful technical homemade products for the garage - a press and a cyclone vacuum cleaner

A home-made clamping device, which is sometimes impossible to do without at home, is very simple to do. You will need:

• hydraulic jack;
• metal platform;
• profile pipes with a section of 6x6 and 4x4 centimeters (each will require two pieces).

The press is done in this way:

1. Attach two vertical guides (pipes 4 by 4 cm) to the base of the structure.
2. Weld between them (at the very top) a piece of pipe 6 by 6 cm.
3. Install another pipe 6 by 6 cm so that it moves without difficulty along the mounted guides.

Homemade garage press

The use of such a technical homemade product is elementary - you lay the products that you want to connect on the working surface of the press, cover them with a thick plywood sheet, lower the jumper pipe with the jack placed on it. You only need to apply pressure to the jack to glue two products or your own crafts for ages.

But with the help of the next homemade product - a cyclone vacuum cleaner, you can always put things in perfect order in the garage. It is made from a dense plastic or (which is better) from a metal container. It must be airtight. The scheme for making homemade products for effective garbage collection in a motorhome is as follows:

1. Make two holes in the lid of the container. Place the first at the edge, the second - in the central part. The diameters of the holes must correspond to the sections of the hoses that you will connect to the device. One hose is brought to the hole from the edge, it is designed to collect debris, the other is needed to connect a conventional vacuum cleaner.
2. In the inlet pipe of the described homemade product, you need to install a plastic elbow. It will ensure the process of swirling (cyclone) air in the tank. Due to this knee, the effectiveness of such a homemade product increases, which easily and quickly sucks in small stones, lumps of dirt, sawdust and other solid contaminants. All of them will be collected in the tank that you connected to the vacuum cleaner.

A device for making strong rope from plastic bottles

When heated, the material from which bottles for mineral water and various drinks are made can shrink. This gives us the opportunity to make an excellent rope out of such containers. With its help, you can very firmly connect various parts and assemblies in the caravan and in general in the household.

Rope from a plastic bottle

To make a device for making homemade cords, you need to stock up on two bolts with washers and nuts, metal washers, a piece of thin board or plywood, a stationery blade and an electric drill. We make the device like this:

1. In the middle of the board or plywood, place two washers, mark their centers.
2. Drill holes in the marked centers with a drill.
3. Drill holes from the reverse side (this is a mandatory procedure to ensure that there is no twisting and rotation when using the device).
4. Screw in the bolts.

The use of this craft is simple. It is necessary to put several washers on the protruding sections of the bolts (their number determines the thickness of the rope to be cut). Then, a clerical knife should be placed on top of the washers (you can even use a piece of it) and strengthen the structure by mounting a few more washers and tightening the nuts until they stop. After that, the homemade device must be fixed with clamps on a garage workbench or other work surface.

Next, we take a two-liter plastic bottle, cut out the bottom from it, cut a strip (very small) of the required length and install our “blank” under the knife. The tape must be pulled with one hand, while holding the container to be cut with the other. From one bottle of 2 liters you will get about 25 meters (linear) of excellent rope with high shrink characteristics.

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#15 Homemade Garage Fixtures

DIY garage accessories

Homemade Garage Fixtures #Tool

The word "motorist" today is not just a term for the owner of a personal vehicle. Driving is a lifestyle. The modern garage is the stronghold of the home jack-of-all-trades.

Peculiarities

The specifics of arranging a garage space is that the layout, ceiling height, number of floors, garage area, the number of cars “lodging” in it are purely individual. There is no recipe for all occasions - everyone decides for himself what he likes.

You just need to take care of:

• dryness and heating of the room;
• good ventilation;
• protection from thieves;
• arrangement of the desktop and storage systems;
• good lighting.

Depending on the dimensions of the building, the area occupied by equipment, fixtures, communications should not exceed 20% of the garage area. And the distance from the side rack to the parked car should be no less than the width of its doors.

The garage is a multifunctional space. To correctly distinguish it, determine the working areas. So you can understand if you have enough space to accommodate everything you need. It is better to sort out the things that have accumulated in it in advance and throw out everything unnecessary.

Naturally, a garage is unthinkable without a workshop area. The workbench, placed against the far wall, is useful both in repairs and for hobbies. On the shelf directly above the workplace, place tools and finished crafts.

It is convenient to store hardware, dowels and other little things in transparent jars glued with a lid to a shelf. Another little trick - a magnetic strip pasted on furniture will help save a lot of space.

Where and how to place the tools?

Order in the workshop is impossible without proper placement of tools.

Arrange the essentials on a shield or hanging shelves above the workplace so that everything is at hand. It is convenient to store the necessary tools vertically on plywood boards with holes drilled into them. Heavier utensils will comfortably sit on the racks.

Easy to manufacture and convenient holders made of PVC pipes.

Homemade rack

Wooden and metal shelving would be the best option for a garage, as plastic ones break quickly and cannot withstand heavy objects.

Racks are:

• stationary - fixed on the wall for stability;
• collapsible - if you have not yet decided where it is better to put the rack, it can always be disassembled and mounted elsewhere;
• mobile - on wheels to move without unloading;
• console - for storing long items.

The advantage of wood furniture is the relative ease of manufacture. It can be mounted using a standard carpentry kit without the help of specialists. It is easy to make a wooden rack of any size and shape, and a broken shelf is easy to replace without disassembling the entire structure. In addition, it is cheaper to make a rack from wood than from metal.

The disadvantages of a wooden product include its fire hazard and stationarity.

It is better to mount a wooden rack immediately “overhauled”, because it will loosen from movement.

The most budgetary and easy to process wood is pine. It does not rot, does not crack when dry. But also the pine is quickly destroyed. If you do not want to change furniture every five years, choose a harder wood. Oak and larch are harder and also do not rot.

For maximum functionality, the rack should be placed in the full length and height of the wall. Just be sure to leave a gap of 5-10 cm between the wall and the rack, so that it is convenient to install it.

We make the width of the shelves such that it is safe to pass by the rack with the car parked in the garage. It is not worth doing a great depth of the shelves, as it will be inconvenient to use them. The optimal value is 50-60 cm.

We cut out the supports from a bar with a section of 10 by 10 cm, the crossbars from a bar are thinner - 5 by 5 cm in section. The distance between the racks is about a meter and no more, so that the shelves do not bend or break under the weight of the equipment. We make shelves from a bar, or a thick plywood sheet. Markings for fastening the crossbars are applied to the wall along the height of the future shelves. Be sure to measure the evenness of the marked level and tape measure.

Securely fasten the boards with self-tapping screws to the wall every 40-50 cm. Attach the boards of the opposite crossbars to the fixed crossbars. Attach the vertical boards to the horizontal boards, being careful not to screw them onto the ones nailed to the wall. Set aside the workpiece, cut the transverse crossbars for the shelves. We hang them on the frame every meter. We fix the assembled workpiece and measure the final size of the shelves, cut it out and fix it with self-tapping screws.

Anyone who is engaged in carpentry work will need a mobile rack for storing lumber.

To assemble it you will need:

• square;
• screwdriver;
• electric jigsaw;
• clamp;
• self-tapping screws;
• 4 furniture rollers;
• 4 boards 2.5 meters long.

Decide on the parameters of the rack and draw up a working drawing. Measure and cut the pieces to the desired size. Make two identical side parts, like a stepladder. The distance between the crossbars is equal to the height of the shelves.

Assemble the base frame. It must be strictly rectangular. For alignment, fix the parts on the table at an angle of 90 degrees with a clamp and square. Attach wheels to the base. Fasten the side elements at a slight angle like a stepladder.

With the storage of long garden tools, the simplest rack of two boards will do just fine.

All you need is:

• mark the hole of the holders according to the given dimensions;
• drill through holes on a carpentry machine;
• carefully cut out the inclined part;
• paint or varnish the finished holders and hang them in the place planned for the shelf.

Metal furniture can withstand heavy loads and last longer than wood furniture. To save time and effort, you can order ready-made racks, but it's cheaper to make them yourself. It is not necessary to buy new metal, take what is already there. For example, water pipes that you got by chance, but were not useful on the farm.

Most often, the frame is welded from profile pipes and corners.

It is done like this:

• We outline the position of future shelves on the vertical racks. Make sure they are on par with each other. The distance between the lower shelves is greater than between the upper ones. At the top, it is just right to reserve a place for a high shelf for storing light oversized items.
• For the base rails, take a corner 5 by 5 or 5 by 7 cm, it will protect things from accidental falling or slipping. The span between vertical posts is no more than a meter.
• We weld the corners, control the level of all corners - they must be straight.
• We check the diagonals of the welded frame, and at the back we install crosshairs from reinforcement for additional structural rigidity.
• Cover welded joints with an anti-corrosion agent, prime and paint the furniture with wear-resistant paint.

The upper shelves are used for lighter items, covered with plywood, it is desirable to cover the lower ones with a steel sheet. Shelves for storing especially massive items are best reinforced with several stiffeners.

It is also possible to store various small and not very heavy things in a plastic rack. It is easy to assemble from empty cans.

This option is useful to anyone who does not have enough space in the garage or finances to install the rack. And small things will cease to “scatter” around the room in disorder.

To do this, you need to take the canisters, wash them well so that there are no traces of their contents. The same canisters can be used as dividers or pull-out shelves on a finished rack, but then you need to cut off the side so that the handles remain.

Also, a PVC pipe rack is suitable for storing light items.

Manufacturing of hanging shelves

For a home craftsman, a garage shelf can be more than just a toolbox, it can also be a place to display finished work.

The hinged shelf can be assembled by yourself in the same way as the rack. It is even easier to install a shelf from corners - metal or wooden.

Also, the role of hinged shelves can be performed by baskets hung on the wall.

It is worth plastering the walls in advance before mounting the shelf. This will prevent condensation on the walls after the shelves are installed.

You can attach shelves anywhere where no one will cling to or hit them:

• above the windows, if any;
• above the workplace;
• under the ceiling.

Today, the market offers various novelties such as shelves with a lifting mechanism that can be hung right under the ceiling and lowered when needed.

It is easy to make a hinged ceiling structure yourself by assembling shelves from thick sheets of plywood or fiberboard on studs.

For this you will need:

• large anchors (4 pcs.);
• hex nuts-couplings for couplers (4 pcs.);
• simple nuts (12 pcs.);
• hairpins (4 pcs.);
• flat washers of large diameter (8 pcs.);
• Grover washers (4 pcs.;
• drill;
• perforator;
• spanners;
• screwdriver;
• level;
• electric jigsaw.

First, we cut out the shelves of the required size from the plywood sheet. They can be reinforced along the edges with a metal profile.

We retreat 5-7 cm from the edge of the tile and make holes into which we will thread the studs. Such an indentation is needed so that the edges of the shelves do not crumble during operation. So that the shelf does not bend from long use, it is better to install the bearing studs after 60-70 cm.

Through the drilled holes we make markings on the ceiling in the place where we will hang the shelf. According to the marking, we drill holes for the anchors, remove the dust from them, hammer the anchors to the end and tighten the nuts.

Now we connect the studs to the anchors with the help of coupling nuts. We strengthen the connection with ordinary nuts.

• on the stud fixed on the ceiling we screw the nut, after it the washer;
• we string the shelf on the ends of the studs;
• we fix it with a Grover washer and a control nut, and preferably with two lock nuts.

Ceiling shelf will facilitate the use of the garage. She has only one drawback - a movable structure. It is better to fix the shelf with an iron corner. We attach one edge to the wall, the second to the base of the shelf. Now it will not loosen and will last longer.

Shelf-shield for storing tools with your own hands

The shield shelf is a more compact alternative to the conventional wall shelf and will help you organize your tools inside the garage so that they are all in sight.

It is quite simple to put together a shield shelf from plywood and wooden blocks.

Process description:

• cut a shield of the required size from plywood and mark the position of the shelves;
• put together shelves with side walls along the length of the shield;
• fix the shelves on the shield with self-tapping screws;
• then there are two options: we install a bracket on the back wall and hang it on hooks built into the wall or fix it on the support posts of the desktop.

A locksmith's workbench is more suitable not for a wooden shelf, but for a metal shield with holes, on which it is convenient to hang both shelves and tools on hooks.

How to make a workbench yourself?

A workbench is a must-have item for a garage workshop. On it, you can sort out machine parts, and solder radio equipment, and cut out with a jigsaw.

The manufacture of a workbench usually begins with a detailed design drawing.

Measure the area of ​​the workspace and the height of the workbench.

The optimal workbench height is usually 90 cm, but this is not an absolute value and depends on the height of the master and whether he prefers to work standing or sitting.

To make your own workbench, you will need:

• jigsaw or hacksaw;
• drill and a set of drills for wood and metal;
• screwdriver;
• joiner's square;
• roulette;
• level;
• spanners.

When choosing wood, check that it is free of cracks and knots.

Getting started, prepare:

• bars 10 by 10 cm for legs;
• two thick plywood sheets;
• boards with a section of 5 by 15 cm;
• bolts (take furniture with a square head so that they do not turn);
• nuts and washers;
• self-tapping screws.

Draw a drawing according to your measurements, indicate the exact dimensions of the parts so as not to be mistaken.

First, we make a top frame with a spacer in the center. We strengthen 6 supports on the frame. Install the leg in the corner of the frame and drill two through holes through the leg and the side board. Then fasten with long bolts. Measure thirty centimeters from the bottom edge of each leg and fix horizontal boards at this height for greater structural stability. They will also become the base of the lower shelf or drawers.

We screw the countertop flush with self-tapping screws. We will cover the finished tabletop with a layer of hardboard. For greater wear resistance, hardboard can be replaced with a steel sheet.

We measure the gap from the central to the end supports, according to the measurements, we install a shelf. We cut the grooves for the supporting legs with a jigsaw or a hacksaw. Drawers can be installed instead of the bottom shield. To do this, you will have to buy guides, handles and more plywood sheets. Screw the guides with self-tapping screws to the supports and install the knocked-up boxes on them. Make sure the sizes match.

Instead of a shelf, drawers can be installed. Above the workbench, install a shield or hanging shelves with a margin for new tools that will appear in the future.

If locksmith work is expected, only a metal desktop is suitable.

To assemble it you will need:

• "Bulgarian" with cutting and grinding discs;
• level;
• electric jigsaw;
• measuring instruments;
• rack beams of small size from profiled pipes - for the frame part;
• steel strips - for weld-on struts in the corner area;
• profile pipes with a wall thickness of 3-4 mm;
• corner;
• plywood one and a half centimeters thick and guides for boxes;
• drill;
• screwdriver

We weld the frame first. So that the frame does not lead, the beams should be welded by spot welding, laid out on a flat surface. Welding seams are made in turn on one and the other side at the docking points.

We mount racks and a horizontal beam from the back side to the base. Check the evenness of all corners. If the corners are not straight, they can be corrected with a hammer.

A countertop is assembled from the boards and impregnated with a refractory compound. We tighten the bars with screws and glue them. A steel sheet is laid on top.

The shield for placing tools is mounted on vertical rack-mount parts, wooden boxes are equipped in the pedestals. Treat wooden elements with a fire retardant compound.

If the garage space is very small, assemble a folding workbench. You will need a countertop, a board along its length, self-tapping screws, dowels, a drill, a screwdriver, legs and door hinges.

First, fix the board on the wall at the level of the future countertop. Screw door hinges to the board with self-tapping screws. Fix the tabletop on the door hinges so that it falls down. When raised, it will be held by the legs.

It would be ideal to carve grooves for the legs in the countertop with a chisel so that they do not slip off.

For car owners, property on wheels is a matter of great concern. Today, the lock is no longer the most reliable protection against car theft.

If you still have a working old push-button telephone. Make a simple electronic alarm out of it. When intruders break into the garage, the "smart" GSM alarm will call you or send you a pre-set SMS.

The alarm is soldered from:

• wires;
• push-button mobile phone with a quick call function;
• magnet;
• closed sealed contact;
• toggle switch or key switch.

The mobile phone should be hidden more securely. Also take care of timely recharging or power your phone from the network.

Installing an alarm:

• set up speed dialing to the desired number;
• remove the front panel to provide access to the keyboard matrix;
• We solder one wire to the end button, the second to the shortcut button, then connect the wires to the reed switch. One wire must be with a switch;
• quietly install a magnet and a reed switch on the gate leaves, so that the contacts close when opening;
• hide the phone and wires so that intruders do not notice them.

How to properly store tires?

A seasonal set of tires is not only a voluminous and bulky item, but also requires special storage conditions. Sets of tires with and without rims are stored differently. Tires on disks are better for hanging. At the same time, it is not necessary to buy special hooks for tires. You can assemble suspensions from improvised materials.

Prefabricated wheels can also be stored lying down, but tires without disks are stored only “standing up”, and moreover, they are rotated once a month.

A place to store "lying" or "standing" tires can be equipped under the ceiling or on one of the shelves of the rack or under its bottom shelf. The ceiling rack for tires can be assembled from profiles and corners - you only need a drill and a grinder, and if you have a welding machine, you can weld it.

Useful gadget ideas

Garage craftsmen come up with many interesting inventions to facilitate the work.

For example, a cyclone vacuum cleaner. We take a dense plastic or metal container (or a 5 liter bottle), and make two holes in its upper part - one at the edge and the other in the center. The diameters of the holes must match the section of the hoses that will be connected to the device.

The inlet pipe is on the edge. We will mount a plastic knee into it, which will provide cyclone air movement. We insert the hose from a conventional vacuum cleaner into the central upper hole.

Such a vacuum cleaner will easily suck up small stones, sawdust, dried dirt, and all solid contaminants will remain in the tank.

Another useful "homemade" - "bottle cutter", can be made using a drill from improvised materials. All you need is a piece of board or plywood, a clerical knife blade and a couple of bolts and nuts.

Mark the centers of the washers by placing them in the middle of the board. Drill holes, and be sure to drill them from the back so that the bottle cutter does not rotate when in use. Screw in the bolts.

The hack should be applied like this:

• We put several washers on the protruding ends of the bolts. The more of them, the thicker the rope turns out;
• on top of the washers we put a clerical knife, or at least a fragment of it, and for reliability we fix it on top with nuts;
• we take a plastic bottle, cut off the bottom and make an incision so that we can pull the resulting “tail”;
• we install the workpiece under the knife and pull out the “tail” into a full-fledged rope.

From one two-liter bottle you will get about 25 meters of strong, very useful rope in the household. A strong rope from a bottle will come in handy for tightening reinforcement for concrete pouring, and for wrapping the sliding handles of a tool, and even for weaving baskets. To avoid cutting yourself, it is better to work with gloves.

A garage winch is a simple mechanism that will help you drag large and massive loads. The oldest and simplest winch is manual. The cable is wound on it with the help of a long lever. It is relatively compact, does not depend on electricity, is inexpensive, and by increasing the lever, you can increase its draft power.

The disadvantages include the need to apply considerable physical effort and some inconvenience when working in cold weather, in mud or in cramped conditions.

For assembly, purchase:

• short pipe;
• axis of rotation;
• lever arm;
• cable;
• carabiner hook.

Assemble the winch from the prepared elements:

• securely drive the axle into the ground;
• weld a pipe to it;
• on one side, fix the cable on the axle with a loop so that it wraps around it when turning, and on the other, hang the hook.

The device of the cellar as a viewing hole: the pros and cons

Any motorist who knows how to independently maintain his car and wants to reduce the production costs of its repair needs a viewing hole.

Despite the additional costs of arranging the pit, experienced drivers will only benefit as they will be able to:

• independently inspect the steering, chassis and brake parts and identify possible malfunctions in time;
• change oil;
• save on minor repairs that you can carry out yourself;
• protect yourself from unnecessary costs associated with the dishonesty of car service mechanics;
• the presence of a viewing hole increases the cost of the motorhome if it is sold;
• For many car owners, self-inspection of the car and its repair is an exciting hobby.

The following can interfere with the organization of a viewing hole in the garage:

• groundwater level: if it is above 2 meters, the water will flood the pit;
• ground instability;
• the complexity of organizing a drainage system in a finished garage.

It is ideal to plan a viewing hole at the stage of designing a garage, for example, a country house. But often the need for it arises when the garage has already been bought and it is either without a cellar at all, or with the so-called “vegetable pit”.

In the first case, you will have to perform a thorough study of the type of soil, establish the level of groundwater occurrence and check the presence of underground utilities in the place intended for the pit.

All surveys are best left to professionals. This will allow you to quickly assess the situation, saving time and effort.

Work can begin if the technical plan of the area allows you to dig 3 m or more deep - then the deep foundation will be protected from undermining. Otherwise, the foundation will be flooded.

If a vegetable pit is already equipped in the garage, part of it can be converted into a viewing pit, it will even be somewhat easier than digging a foundation pit from scratch.

First, you need to move the entrance to the cellar to a convenient place and build on the missing walls with bricks.

The dimensions of the inspection hole are calculated:

• length - the length of the machine plus 1 m;
• width - the width between the wheels is minus 20 cm, so that the car does not fail during the drive into the pit;
• depth - the height of the driver plus twenty centimeters.

If the depth of the vegetable pit is greater or less than this value, it is better to build on or deepen the bottom. All elements of the pit and cellar outside must be insulated with polystyrene foam and a drainage system should be installed if it has not been previously equipped.

Wiring for future lighting is best taken care of right away. Also, do not forget to equip a niche for tools in the wall.

After completion of the work, the floor of the garage will have to be redone. The problem will be solved by concrete pouring, which can be done independently if you first install reinforcement or guides.

So we get a separate entrance to the cellar, where you can store products of a private household, and a separate viewing hole, covered with a boardwalk or a sectional door.

If it is impossible to equip a viewing hole, with a sufficient height of the garage ceiling, a home-made flyover can become an alternative to the viewing hole.

They are:

• full-size (designed for the entire length of the car);
• mini flyovers (allow you to raise the front or rear axle of the machine).

The simplest mini-overpass is welded from profiles and fittings.

Lighting

For comfortable work in the garage, proper lighting is necessary. The illumination of the garage depends not only on the number and type of lamps used and the power density of the network per 1 m2, but also on its area, height, number and nature of work areas, even on the color of the walls. In a room with dark walls, brighter lighting is needed.

The multi-level lighting system for the garage is considered the most optimal. It involves the installation of a central lamp in the middle of the room and spotlights in work areas.

Height calculation for multi-level lighting:

Checking the correct installation of the fixtures is simple - just look at the car. It must not cast a shadow in either direction.

The formula for calculating the power of ceiling lighting: "P \u003d S x W / N":

P is the total required power, W/m2. W is the power of one lamp, W. N is the number of lamps (luminaires), pcs. S is the area of ​​the room, m2.

For LED and halogen lamps, the optimal indicator is 16-20 W / m2. This value is suitable for rooms with a ceiling height of no more than two and a half meters. For higher ceilings, this figure should be multiplied by 1.5.

Halogen lamps are similar to incandescent lamps, but they give more light. They also have a longer service life - 4 thousand hours. The bulb of a fluorescent lamp is filled with an inert gas. From the inside, the glass is coated with a phosphorescent compound that glows when exposed to an arc discharge.

Lamps must be in shades. You should also take care of the system for stabilizing power surges.

The most expensive lighting is LED. But it is more economical than fluorescent lamps by 50%, and the service life of LED lamps is 50 thousand working hours. And they do not need shades, because LEDs do not contain toxic components and give light that is closest to natural.

When illuminating a viewing hole, low-power LED or halogen lamps can provoke an electric shock due to the condensate that settles on them. LED lamps are more convenient because halogen ones get very hot. Make the fixture retractable and it won't suffer if the tool accidentally falls into the pit.

Heating devices

Before choosing the device itself, determine whether you will heat the garage around the clock, maintaining a certain temperature, or turn it on only for the duration of the work.

Good ventilation should be done in advance. When installing any kind of garage heating, this is necessary for safety and Russian legislation.

An excellent option is to connect the garage to the heating system of the house, but it is only suitable for a personal building on the territory of a private land plot.

The most popular option is compact heaters. Many motorists prefer to buy them, thinking that it will cost more to assemble them on their own.

In fact, you can assemble a compact heater from quite budget materials. The vast majority of home-made heat units work efficiently due to thermal film. Thermal film is a multi-layer electrical heater that can be assembled from laminate or carbon fiber. It heats up quickly with low power consumption.

To check the performance of the assembled device, you will need a multimeter. The rest of the parts can be bought at the hardware store or found in the home pantry.

You will need:

• two-core wire with a plug;
• laminated paper plastic (the area of ​​one element is 1 m2);
• epoxy adhesive;
• graphite, crushed to a powder.

First, prepare the epoxy-graphite mixture. How well the device will heat up depends on the amount of graphite chips. On average, the temperature reaches 60-65 degrees.

We apply the mixture on the rough side of the plastic sheets with zigzag strokes. We fasten the sheets with epoxy glue with the right side to each other. Make a frame along the contour of the sheets to further fix them.

Next, attach the terminals to the graphite conductors on opposite sides of the heater. If you want to control the temperature, you can mount a dimmer in the wire. To avoid a short circuit, the assembled device is thoroughly dried. Then test the device (a multimeter is useful for this), measure the resistance and power. If it turns out that the homemade heater is safe enough, you can use it.

An electric heater, made independently according to the type of thermal film, can be used both in a vertical, and in a horizontal and inclined position.

The main thing is to observe safety precautions:

• do not leave the heater on unattended;
• children should not be left to look after him;
• do not place the device near flammable objects.

In the event that you decide to equip a stove-type heating in the garage, you must obtain permission from the fire department and the garage association without fail.

However, fire inspectorates rarely give permission for the use of home-made "stoves", and in the event of their unauthorized installation, all responsibility for any damage will fall on its owner.

Examples and variants

There are many options for using free space in the garage.

The most popular of them:

• Workshop. The garage is the perfect place for activities that couldn't be found at home - noisy plumbing, flammable lampworking and soldering with the unpleasant smell of burnt rosin will finally find a cozy home.
• Warehouse. In every house there are a lot of necessary things that you don’t want to keep at home - seasonal sports equipment, children's sleds, even out-of-season clothes and family photo albums.
• Garden corner. The garage is often used by hobby gardeners to store bulky and oversized garden supplies.

It's nice to see when a person made all and other household items with his own hands. To simplify the process of cutting metal or cutting wood elements, they build home-made machines and fixtures for the home workshop. This solution saves not only time for the manufacture of products, but also money for the purchase of finished products. A few practical and interesting options are discussed below.

DIY pipe bending machine

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How to use homemade machines and fixtures for the home workshop

The use of home-made machines and devices for the home workshop is aimed at solving several problems:

• Simplification of the metal processing process. In the course of creating household items, a metal carver or a press is often required.
• Improvement in wood processing. Even to build a small barn or make a wooden one, others are needed.

Buying a ready-made tool is quite expensive, so the use of home-made machines and accessories for the garage is becoming more and more relevant every day. Among the most common options for home tools are:

• carpentry workbench;
• device for quick sharpening of knives;
• device for sharpening metal drills;
• drilling machines;
• Press;
• cutting disc machines.

Here are a few photos of do-it-yourself tools and fixtures from "homemade" ones:

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Practical DIY tool shelves

Before creating devices, and with your own hands, determine the storage location for all devices, so that later you do not have to look throughout the workshop or where everything lies. It is not difficult to make a shelf for tools with your own hands, the main thing is to decide on its dimensions and material of manufacture.

The easiest way to make shelves is to assemble them from wood. Do not forget about the need to cover the finished structure with a protective varnish or to prevent rotting and swelling of the wood.

You can create a combined version of a metal support and wooden shelves. Here are detailed instructions for creating such a homemade model:

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	Assemble the frame. To do this, prepare two side frames, consisting of 4 corners. Connect elements with . Then, tighten 2 frames together using 4 corners.
	When the frame is fully assembled, proceed to the manufacture of shelves. They can be made from wood or metal, as well as from other improvised dense materials. It is enough to cut the canvases of a suitable size and fix them on a metal base.
	If desired, you can make the rack movable by attaching four small wheels. Or firmly install it in the allotted place in the garage.

You can find other interesting projects and drawings for making tool shelves. Watch a video on the topic:

And also make useful household appliances with your own hands:

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We make a carpentry workbench with our own hands according to the drawings: video instructions and photo examples

Among the common do-it-yourself devices, a workbench is distinguished. Durable and dimensional, allowing you to securely fix the workpiece, it is useful for high-quality cutting of wood and creating various elements from it.

The device package includes:

1. Working surface. For it, a solid one is used to increase the life of the device. The thickness must be at least 6 cm.
2. Supports. Assembled from wooden beams or metal plates. The main task is to ensure the stability of the entire mechanism.
3. Vice for fixing the product. If the table is long, you can install two vices at once.
4. Tool box. A useful recess or pull-out design that provides quick access to the small parts you need.

To independently assemble a carpentry workbench for your workshop, you should choose a drawing, purchase material for work.

Do-it-yourself carpentry workbench drawings

Before buying materials to build your own workbench, you should think about a detailed drawing. It should include the dimensions of the machine itself, it is advisable to note the dimensions of the materials used and their quantity.

For example, a finished drawing of a folding workbench with your own hands may look like this:

Whatever model you choose to create, consider several features of the desktop that provide the convenience of cutting wood:

• the height and length of the hands of the master: the height and width of the countertop depend on these parameters;
• which hand is working: place the vise on the right or left;
• what blanks will be made: selection of the table shape;
• how much space in the room you allocate for a workbench.

Given all these parameters, it will be easier for you to decide on the drawings of the carpentry workbench and the dimensions of the machine. Here are some interesting examples:

Instructions for assembling a wooden workbench with your own hands

You can buy a wooden workbench in a store or through online catalogs, but it's cheaper to make it yourself. Let's take as a basis a simple version with typical tabletop dimensions: length - 150-200 cm, width 70-120 cm.

Manufacturing work will include several stages:

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	Make the top cover from thick ones to make a shield with a width of 70 to 200 cm. Fasten the elements onto long nails, and you need to drive them in from the outside, and carefully bend them from the inside. The working surface of the workbench is made only of wood or.
	Sheathe the lid along the lower perimeter with a 5 by 5 cm timber. This will make it more convenient to mount the vertical supports. The location of the supports depends on the size of the countertop. It is better to make them from a thick rectangular bar at least 120 by 120 mm.
	The carpenter's workbench must be installed correctly. Be sure to fasten it firmly. If it will be mounted on the street under a canopy, then dig holes for the supports. Indoors, use other methods of fastening.

When the structure is assembled, place a vise on it. To fully understand how to assemble a carpentry workbench with your own hands, watch the video:

Making a carpenter's vise for a workbench with your own hands

Professional "homemade" assemble not only tables for work, but also a vise with their own hands according to the drawings. Any design of such a clamp will include several elements:

1. Supports where each has a sponge for clamping.
2. Moving clamping jaw.
3. Metal guides. A sponge moves over them.
4. Lead screw, for moving elements.
5. collar. Required to rotate the screw.

In the manufacture of homemade vise with your own hands, you can use various improvised materials. For example, there is a design option from a profile pipe. To do this, prepare several pieces of pipe of different sizes, a steel stud with a coarse thread and double nuts.

Instructions for creating a verstal vice from a profile pipe:

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	The largest pipe acts as a body. Supports are soldered to it from below. A 3-4 mm steel flange is put on the back side. A hole for the running nut is drilled in the center, and opposite the front support there is a back sponge.
	On the inner moving part, the front steel flange. A stud is mounted in it, with lock nuts fixed to it. Thrust washers are put on both sides of the flange. The last element is a movable tube attached to the front sponge.

And also watch the video "do-it-yourself vise at home":

Do-it-yourself metal workbench drawings

A metal workbench does not differ much from a carpenter's workbench. At the heart of a rigid metal, not a wooden frame. A vise is attached to it, and the entire workbench is designed to withstand the force of a blow from a sledgehammer.

Do-it-yourself metal workbenches can have one, two or three cabinets, and also not have shelves and drawers for small parts. In terms of strength for working in a garage, you can make an ordinary table of metal up to 5 mm thick and a reinforced structure, where sheets from 10 to 30 mm are applicable.

Here are some useful blueprints for making a metal workbench for your workshop:

How to make a do-it-yourself knife sharpener: drawings and photo examples

No home is complete without a knife in the kitchen. It is rather difficult to make the correct one without special devices: it is necessary to maintain the desired angle and achieve the ideal sharpness of the blade.

For each knife, a certain sharpening angle must be observed:

1. Razor and scalpel require an angle of 10-15⁰.
2. Knife for cutting bakery products - 15-20⁰.
3. Classic multifunctional knives - 25-30⁰.
4. For hunting and camping, they take a device with a blade angle from 25 to 30⁰.
5. If you want to cut hard materials, then sharpen at an angle of 30-40⁰.

To ensure the desired angle, it is worth buying or making a sharpening device. For example, you can assemble a sharpener with your own hands.

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“If you do not use sharpening every day, then 1000 rpm is enough for a quality result and a long service life of the device.”

To assemble such a machine, a motor from a “washer” with a power of 200 watts is useful. Completely to create a grindstone from the engine from cook:

• the motor itself;
• metal for the casing with a thickness of 2 to 2.5 mm;
• tube for the flange;
• sharpening stone;
• nuts;
• starting mechanism;
• cable for connection to the mains;
• corner made of metal or wood for the bed.

You can see a step-by-step description of the manufacture of the machine in the video:

There are simple do-it-yourself grinding machines without engines. For example, you can make a device from bars. To do this, prepare two abrasive bars of the same size and a sharpening stone.

The progress of work on the creation of such a simple device will be as follows:

• Sand the wood blocks with sandpaper to remove any burrs. Make a markup depending on the desired angle.

• Attach a stone to the drawn line to sharpen the blade. To do this, attach it to the bar and mark its width. Then, on the markings, make cuts, up to 1.5 cm deep.
• In the resulting recesses, fix the abrasive bars so that the grooves match. Then, install the sharpening stone by screwing it onto the bolts.

There are many ways to make a homemade knife sharpener. Choose the right one and try to create a convenient and useful tool for the home.

How to make a do-it-yourself tool for sharpening a drill for metal

They independently make not only a sharpener for blades, but also a machine for sharpening drills for metal. Here are some drawings to help you get started:

Finished home machine

To understand how to assemble your own drill sharpening machine according to the drawings, watch the video on the topic:

Home drilling machine option

The simplest and most common version of such equipment for the garage is a converted drill. For work you will need:

• bed for the base;
• rotation mechanism;
• vertical stand.

For a rack, boards are usually used. The mass of the drill is small, so there is no need to use metal. In this case, the frame must be made massive in order to reduce vibration during the operation of the device.

To correctly connect the bed and the vertical stand, as well as assemble all the equipment into one whole machine, pay attention to the video instruction:

Do-it-yourself drawings with dimensions for a drilling machine

In order to properly make any machine or practical device for private use, it is first worth making a drawing with dimensions. Only then proceed to the preparation of materials and assembly of the device.

Here are some examples of do-it-yourself drilling machine drawings from a drill:

Another build option

And you can also make homemade vise for a drilling machine. Below is a video instruction for assembling such a device:

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