What adaptations for a garage you can do yourself

The owner tries to organize a small space of a closed garage in order to park a car and store tools, materials, and use the space as a small workshop. Do-it-yourself homemade products in the garage and other amazing inventions will help him in this. Life hacks will help to distribute the usable area with minimal costs, to form separate areas, to adapt small areas for effective activity.

Life hacks for a car repair shop

A good option is to install a remote control on the fan so as not to come into a stuffy garage. In a room, it is always difficult to reach the switch so as not to overwhelm a box, box or a standing shovel. In the garage, they make several toggle switches connected in parallel to turn on the lights from different places.

Homemade wrench storage organizer

The box will be useful and will enliven the garage space with an interesting look.

Prepare for manufacturing:

• boards 15 - 20 mm thick;
• adhesive composition for wood;
• self-tapping screws 30 - 35 mm;
• wood stain, varnish for wood;
• old pen strap.

The boards are cleaned, trying not to damage the fibers, sawn off the desired size with a hacksaw. Most often, such boxes are made rectangular, but you can design a square, polygonal box. The bottom with the walls is connected by the groove-protrusion method, the joints are coated with glue, and partitions are provided inside.

Wait for drying, then cover with stain and varnish. The connections are additionally scrolled with self-tapping screws, hiding the caps in the body of the wood. A belt of the correct length must be stapled to the box.

Folding table

The wall of an old home chiffonier, 12 - 15 mm thick, will do. Prepare two hinges, furniture corners, wood screws, 50 x 50 mm bars for racks, anchor bolts, a beam for support.

The height of the table is marked on the wall, a level is used. The support bar is attached to the vertical surface with anchors. On the racks, they mark the fastening of the corners, fix them with bolts with a nut, which can be easily unscrewed. Similarly, they mark the place of the corners on the tabletop, connect the legs to the table with the help of corners.

Hinges are attached to the bar on the wall, and the tabletop is screwed to them. In an upright position, the table will be held by a simple window latch. The table legs are removed and stored separately.

Washstand made of scrap materials

The device will replenish the list of homemade products for the garage with your own hands. You will need the remains of sheet plywood, a durable plastic canister of 10 liters, a water tap, a nut, a fitting, a soap dish. Take emery, PVA glue.

Manufacturing process:

• cut out the details of the box from plywood, connect the back to the bottom first, use glue and nails;
• a hole for the tap is marked at the bottom, drilled;
• attach the side parts;
• a nut is glued to the canister below, a tap is attached to it, a hole is made for it;
• I check the installation of a full canister in the body of the box.

A homemade plywood support structure is attached to the wall with anchors. The canister is removed, put back, filled with water. The faucet spout can be extended with a plastic tube to increase the spray distance from the wall for convenience.

Tips for storing tools, materials, garden tools

The embodiment of ideas for storing tools and materials in the garage begins with the zoning of the space. Free up space for large items, for example, tables, cabinets, shelves. Vertical storage panels look good and have multifunctionality. On such stands, you can place hooks, arrange small trays for small tools or hardware, attach magnets.

Gardening tools for summer cottages and houses are stored in an upright position using pieces of wide plastic pipes (from 100 mm). Pieces 20-30 cm long, cut at an angle, attached to the wall in order one after the other. Shovels, rakes, hoes are put in improvised mounts.

Waste wood shelves

Trimming bars and planks will help the craftsman make unusual shelves. Remains of boards with a thickness of 20 mm, slats with a section of 50 x 50 mm, self-tapping screws are suitable.

The board is cut to the size of the shelf, and a bar is formed into the same size. It is fixed from the bottom of the board with self-tapping screws. If you need several such shelves, blanks of other products are made according to a ready-made template. Holes are drilled in the bars simultaneously with the boards in order to hang them on a vertical plane, taking into account the level.

The shelf with the bar is leaned against the wall and the attachment point is marked through the hole. Drill a hole in the wall with a metal drill or with a victorious nozzle (depending on the material). Attach a shelf, tighten a self-tapping screw.

Portable box for small items

You will need plastic square canisters with thick walls (3 pcs.), Plywood remnants, self-tapping screws, metal strips, pipe fasteners, emery, paint.

Manufacturing procedure:

• windows are marked on the cans, they are cut out with a grinder, the burrs are removed with a knife, the edges are sanded with emery;
• similar holes are cut on the remaining cans;
• plywood makes peculiar shelves inside the canister, the edges are cleaned with emery or a grinder;
• the inserts are fastened with self-tapping screws at the bottom and top inside the case.

It is better to take self-tapping screws with a press washer. Boxes from canisters are assembled on a common stand, and the handle is made from a plastic canister.

First aid kit in the garage workshop

For production, they take plywood scraps with a thickness of 6 and 14 mm, boards, a transparent piece of plastic. For fixing, you need self-tapping screws, nails, a piano hinge holds the door, a small latch. The joints are connected with wood glue, the surface is treated with emery and linseed oil.

Operating procedure:

1. The body is made of 16 mm thick plywood sheets. First, the side walls, the bottom and the lid are cut, then they are fastened with self-tapping screws, the joints are coated with glue. Clamps are used for temporary fixation.
2. The back wall is cut from a 6 mm sheet. Glue is applied to the back of the body, the back is applied, and the nails are fastened.
3. The door frame is made of a shallow lath; it is filled with transparent plastic using silicone sealant.
4. 6 mm plywood shelves are glued to the inside of the case.

The door is fixed with a piano hinge, it remains to put the latch or latch, hang the first-aid kit on the wall.

Fittings for a viewing pit

The garage lift is made of channel # 8 (longitudinal runs), channel # 6 (transverse). The guides for the platform are made of a rectangular pipe with a cross section of 50 x 50 mm. The material is chosen so that the channel of the smaller section goes into the larger one (for rigidity).

A 6-ton jack is used; it is placed on a platform of three pieces of channel # 6. At the end, on the sides, a reinforcement made of a 6 mm thick metal strip is welded. For the wheels, bearings are taken, 2 pcs. at the corners. The axles are made of bolts 40 mm long, M20.There are 30 mm inserts in the gap between the frame and bearings to compensate for the uneven edges of the inspection pit.

For smooth movement, there are horizontal bars on bearings, locking shoes are made in the form of triangles with legs of 160 and 290 mm from the strip. The structure is connected by welding using 4 mm electrodes.

Homemade pit lamp in the garage

A device for lighting inside a pit falls into the category of garage homemade products. For the frame, use the SD profile - 60 g / cardboard, a piece 1 meter long is cut out of it. At the same distance, several holes are made of the corresponding diameter for the cartridges according to the number of installed lamps.

Cartridges take e27, such are placed in tabletop lighting fixtures. Other cartridges can be used if they have a mount. A braided copper wire 20-30 cm long is connected to the cartridges.

The cartridges are fixed on the frame, the wires are connected together, connected to the cable with a plug. An improvised lamp can be placed on the wall.

Foldable garage pit ladder

For the arrangement of the structure, a square pipe, a corner, metal strips, boards for steps are used. Self-tapping screws, washers, bolts act as hardware.

Ladder system assembly procedure:

• draw up a sketch with the dimensions of a ladder from two folding parts fastened together with hinges;
• cut out a template for working from a full-size chipboard sheet;
• metal parts are applied to the template, pressed with clamps, start welding;
• the ends of the side supports, the top and bottom of the march, are closed with steel plates;
• having attached the finished elements to the template, mark the fixation points of the loops;
• weld the eyes, check the fixation by bending.

Holes are drilled in the side corners for fastening the steps, they are marked according to a template. Support elements are fixed under the treads. This is done with the bottom and top of the stairs. Lugs are welded to the edging profile of the inspection pit to fix the march in the working position. For sliding and folding at the bottom of the legs of the stairs, holes are made for bolts with a cut on the head. A clamp spring is attached to the bolt to the edge of the pit.

Other interesting homemade products

Garage door padlocks are exposed to frost, snow, ice, and therefore rust and fail. Protection in the form of an impromptu canopy is cut out of the car camera. The piece is fixed over the lock with a bolt and nut.

A metal pipe with a diameter of 25 - 35 cm is used to make a good tool for protecting the padlock from sawing or breaking. A part 15 - 20 cm long is cut off and fastened to the door leaf around the lock with bolts and nuts. With such a garage adapted for a garage, the lock cannot be opened with a master key, knocked down, cut off with a grinder. Such a device can also be hung on the garage hinges so that they are not damaged.

Stove-potbelly stove from car disks

You will need sheet metal, combustion chamber doors, discs, a square pipe, a smoke manifold, screws, heat-resistant paint.

Cores are removed from the discs with a grinder or a plasma cutter, then a petal-shaped nozzle is mounted. The edges of the discs are leveled so that no gaps arise when joining, holes are welded in them and welded together.

The front and back walls are cut off, welded with thick sheet iron. Reliable stove legs are made from a profile pipe. The furnace door is installed in the hole with screws. On top of the structure, a hob made of thick metal is equipped.

A hole is made in the body for the chimney, welded on, taken out of the garage. The grates are cooked by themselves or ready-made. The blower is performed in the lower region of the stove, a damper is placed.

Compressor from an old motor

You will need an engine from a scooter, a moped, the performance of the new unit will depend on the power. As a result, they get a compressor with a good resource for the operation of the spray gun, pumping the wheels and other similar work.

Materials for work:

• four-stroke engine;
• unit from a washing machine;
• belt transmission;
• fittings, unions, tubes and other parts;
• gas cylinder for the receiver;
• square tube for the bed;
• pressure switch;
• reducer, pressure gauge.

The motor is disassembled and a crankshaft with a connecting rod, a piston, a cylinder with a cylinder head are used. Hard springs are removed from the valve, soft springs are installed, and breathers of the highest degree of purification are provided at the outlet. The timing case and the crankshaft are connected with a tube. The oil is drained from the motor, a small volume is left.

The candle is changed with an adapter, a valve is installed on it so that air flows are not sucked in. Check by scrolling the motor shaft. The compressor must pump air. A steel stand is made under the unit.

To make the receiver, the tap is removed from the cylinder, the contents are disposed of, then washed, and a thread is made for the fittings. Instead of cutting turns, you can weld a nut. All units are fixed to a square tube frame.

They put an electric motor, a compressor, the shafts are joined by means of a pulley, the transmission is adjusted in place. The structure is painted.