Nothing crazy but thought I'd share.. I had to relocate the water line so I still have touching up to do and plan on painting the workbench.. And a few other things but here it is.. Came out pretty good for what I had to work with in the small one car garage. The bench is obviously screwed into the studs and is solid as a rock.

 

UPDATE: 10/12/2209


Finished product:

Painted a brown acrylic deck stain paint. I really like it, it came out Really good.. Added some electric outlets. Added the light above the workbench. And of course the TV

 

Looks great.
What is the depth, as that looks thin, but it may be needed to have room for an actual car in a garage?

 

Exactly.. It's only 15" inches deep.. You can see the nose of my car in the last pic.. Best I could do and still have room for the car. Especially if I ever sell the place..

 

Interesting door construction. I take it the panels are just glued into the rabbet on the back of the frame? Did you use kiln dried lumber for the door frames or is that stud grade lumber?

 

Nope just plywood.. Glued and nailed into the frame..

Yea, router and I tried out this like pocket hole jig, only two slots instead of one.. Worked great..





No, it's not Butcher Block. I bought almost everything the cheapest I could since it's not furniture and it's a workbench that will be battered and bruised anyways.. It was a PITA sorting through the inventory to find straight and true pieces but I saved a ton of money doing so..

 

What are the door frames made from? Reason I'm asking is if it's stud grade pine you can expect some shrinkage.

 

If only I could remember.. Some just 6' junk that I planed and cut down to what I needed. It was like $1.88..


The desk I made previously was done with almost everything high grade.. The workbench.. Not so much..

 

You can't believe how nice and easy it is. I highly recommend it.. Just buy it online somewhere ahead of time. They are around $100 in stores..



excellent idea..!

 

To be honest it's more about tools. If you have the right tools you can make and apply them to anything. I'm just lucky to have access to my Dads shop. Plus he's a woodworking fool..


Yea, I'm not too concerned about it. It would only take a few minutes to make. I just made a right angle fixture so everything would be square screwed it and glued it, through it on the router then threw the inserts in.

 

Where are pics of the finished product? Dont leave us hanging here jonesi.

 

Finished product:

Painted a brown acrylic deck stain paint. I really like it, it came out Really good.. Added some electric outlets. Added the light above the workbench. And of course the TV




Also added a nice little area for yard work tools, etc etc.. I just took a couple boards painted them and screwed them. Now I just add whatever hooks I need as I go. Came out really nice. Looks clean and keeps the tools up off the ground. Berner helped out a lot with this..





Just need to touch up a little bit.. The black screw heads are driving my OCD insane.

 

Added a little storage. Forgot to take a before pic but it looked somewhat similar to the left corner in this pic only about three times worse as more stuff accumulated Berner helped out as usual on the project.


The quick and easy build:




Installed:




This is hanging out in the basement:

Running the hose(all needs cleaned and hidden):

Out it comes you can see it in the other pics


Check the other installed pics you can see it there.

 

How'd you attach the storage unit to the wall?

 

You can see on the one install pic with the doors open there's several 3" drywall screws into the studs. Probably 8 total. It was already pretty solid once I leveled it up. Just needed to tie it into the wall. It's solid as a rock.

 

Nice work Jonesi.

One regret I have is not paying a few extra bucks for a fully insulated garage - dumb move on my part. The upshot is I have one huge beer fridge come hockey season.

 

I see them now, I think. Putting them through the sides and (I'm assuming) the plywood back is a bit ... unconventional.

For future projects, you might want to get some 3" cabinet hanging screws. They'll have wide, flat heads so you don't need to countersink them.

 

Good tip and I actually would've used them but it's for the garage I was keeping costs down and trying not to over do it toward the end. The whole build I spent Wayyy too much time on everything when I should've just been roughing it. It's not a stained piece of furniture, it's a painted cabinet in the garage. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about

 

I do. I have quite a few painted cabinets in my garage. Luckily I also had a bunch of cabinet hangers left over from when I put up some nice cherry cabinets in my laundry room.

Only potential difficulty I can think of is if the house shifts -- since you have the cabinet tied to two walls it might rack a bit depending on how the walls move.

 

Man, Jonesi, if I had a garage floor as true and straight as yours, I would tile that sucker!

I just painted mine.

 

I'm not exactly worried about it. I have been saving all the left overs so one day I'll have that stuff laying around from all the different projects. I just have no idea where to put it all or how or what to use to organize it. What do you use? Any tips or ideas?

 

If you look close enough at everything you will see all the shims everywhere.. Wish it was that good.. Although they did do a nice job. I can't complain.

Once summer comes and the concrete warms up I'll be painting mine also. It's probably and hopefully the last thing I will have to do in the garage.

 

I think you should tile it. I can help, along with Bigman!

Paint looks great at first, but then it sucks. I've had to repaint mine about 4 times now. Still looks like garbage underneath where the tires on the cars are.

Doesn't matter how long you keep the cars off it, the paint underneath a hot car tire will come up. If I could have done it over, I would have tiled my garage.

 

Is there a easy and reasonable/inexpensive way to tile a garage floor?

 

I just have a 5 gallon bucket that I through loose fasteners in. The cabinet hangers came in their own box that I keep on a shelf for a rainy day. My next couple projects are going to be additional storage for my workshop though....

 

I didn't say it would be easy. It would be friggin' EPIC though. My garage isn't exactly mountains and valleys, but I would love to do this. HD is selling some tile at 18X18 for $0.68 each. Based on a 20ft.X20ft. double garage (400 sq. ft.), it would cost $168, plus grout and the tile adhesive.

Holy crap, that is cheap. I may do this to my garage. I have to make sure, if I do do this, that the valleys are correctly filled in so the tiles don't crack under the weight of the cars.

 

Are you talking about ceramic/porcelain tile? I've never seen that in a garage.. googling now..

 

Looks great Jonesi, you and Berner should come do mine next

 

Yep, I've never seen it either. I would assume it's because certain ceramics might not be able to hold up to having a 2400-5000 lb car on them a lot of times.

 

looks awesome... wow!!!!

 

...my wife would be so happy if our garage looked 1/4 that good!!!

 

Looking good. 1 Suggestion on the air hose. Maybe mount a regulator on the wall that the hose attaches to, that way you have some regulation over it? I mounted my compressor in the basement, ran some hard line from the compressor to the garage to a filter and regulator. All i have to do is plug the hoses in adjust the psi and go to town working.

 

Already thought about that.. so far.... everything has been too large and I want the setup to be hidden.. Worst case for now I will be going to basement to adjust the pressure until I figure out something creative to hide that whole setup. Not sure about you but I rarely adjust the pressure so right now it's a not a issue.

 

 

my tank goes up to 160 psi so i need some adjustment or i blow up my air tools

 

ok..... Not sure about you but I keep mine around 100-120 and leave it there for the most part.. I think everyone keeps it at a reasonable level. I don't have to adjust mine that often that puts this very high on my priority list. Although, it is a nice feature and nice to have.

 

I paint things often with it so i need to drop the psi down to like 40 at times, its easier to regulate for me.

 

I'm not sure about the whole tile idea...wouldn't it be annoying when you need to roll something across the garage...like a jack or if you're on a creeper or something? Unless you go with something that doesn't involve grout lines and can be pretty smooth...I dunno

 

No different that rolling it across the kitchen floor.

 

But how often do you jack up your car and slide under it while your in the kitchen?