Garage storage experience?

[kingmoochr]

Looking to upgrade the garage with cabinets due to spiderwebs everywhere on everything. Anyone have any experiences? Leaning towards the newage bold line available at costco. Not going pro since I want to wall mount, figured I don't need the extra gauge in weight form and they won't see much action other than storage.

 

[Archimedes]

I've done the NewAge Pro series in two of our houses and I love it. Not dirt cheap, but not the most expensive either.

 

[byke]

I don't have any firsthand experience, but my experience as a witness to those using them is: you're going to spend more in payments than the shit inside is worth.

 

[NorCalAthlete]

I don't have any firsthand experience, but my experience as a witness to those using them is: you're going to spend more in payments than the shit inside is worth.

:x Then you need to upgrade your tools. :laughing

Personally I can’t wait to build out my future garage. I’ve got plans for hideaway air reels and retractable power cables, welding, everything.

One can dream...

 

[byke]

Well I certainly wish you the best building a garage, they are absolutely super fun to setup.

What does a small storage place cost in the bay? A few years at a few hundo and you're in $10k, so you'd better be putting $100k of appreciable assets in there. People always think they'll just use it for six months, then ten years later and they've spent god knows what for some beds, couple couches and hutch.

Ignore me, I thought we were talking storage units. :laughing

Brain is mush, woke up to early today.

 

[mikev]

In a previous life, I snagged a full set of retro metal kitchen cabinets from CL for free, sprayed them with rustoleum hammered finish paint, and made them my garage storage. Came out pretty cool.

 

[auntiebling]

doors and shelves suck for storage IMO. something is always blocking the door (cabinets etc) and shelves are prone to getting filled with miscelaneous shit in a cardboard box that you didn't label accurately.

for those reasons, i prefer drawers. sure, the lowest one is usually blocked by something but the rest of them can be opened, inspected to find you don't need all that stuff but will dispose of it someday, and on to the next one. filing cabinets hold a bunch of stuff and while they aren't Lista, Stanley etc, they also aren't $1k each

 

[mean dad]

I went with some basic storage cabinets from a large retail home improvement store. I like the plain white look.

I put milk crates on some of the shelves so I can pull them out like drawers and have things somewhat organized.

 

[kingmoochr]

doors and shelves suck for storage IMO. something is always blocking the door (cabinets etc) and shelves are prone to getting filled with miscelaneous shit in a cardboard box that you didn't label accurately.

for those reasons, i prefer drawers. sure, the lowest one is usually blocked by something but the rest of them can be opened, inspected to find you don't need all that stuff but will dispose of it someday, and on to the next one. filing cabinets hold a bunch of stuff and while they aren't Lista, Stanley etc, they also aren't $1k each

I like the drawers idea, but I'm potentially storing stuff as large as Christmas decorations and fenders. Any suggestions on brands?

 

[kingmoochr]

I ’ve got plans for hideaway air reels

Maybe at one time, but I had a face off with a 1/2" air impact vs a Milwaukee 18v 1/2" at the shop I hang out at now. Taking off cam gear bolts. Name brand air impact just marred up the e- head bolt, Milwaukee knocked it off in 2 hits, then revved down as to not spin it off at warp speed and fling it across the garage. For the hobbyist with no real NEED for air tools, air is dead.

 

[auntiebling]

I went with some basic storage cabinets from a large retail home improvement store. I like the plain white look.

I put milk crates on some of the shelves so I can pull them out like drawers and have things somewhat organized.

works fine till something you can't really see slides down through the milk crate, through the wire rack and locks them in place and you're in your flip flops trying not to trip on the anvil horn that's sticking out below and end up whacking your shin on it... hypothetically

I like the drawers idea, but I'm potentially storing stuff as large as Christmas decorations and fenders. Any suggestions on brands?

whatever is cheap on craigslist!
if you need uniformity, that means new, and the new ones are a crap shoot.

for fenders, you're talking car? make a shelf on top of the file cabinets for that stuff.

xmas decorations go inside the house in a closet? not enough room? you have too many decorations!

 

[kingmoochr]

xmas decorations go inside the house in a closet? not enough room? you have too many decorations!

Nope, tiny rancher house with no storage, and wife who loves Christmas, lol. I like uniformity and I want to wall mount, would lose several inches in width on both walls because of the footing if it was just sitting on the floor.

 

[Archimedes]

Nope, tiny rancher house with no storage, and wife who loves Christmas, lol. I like uniformity and I want to wall mount, would lose several inches in width on both walls because of the footing if it was just sitting on the floor.

One of the cool things I did with the NewAge cabinets is I floated some of the smaller cabinets low on the wall, rather than high, and then I cut down one of their bamboo tops to fit the top of the cabinets, so I had some extra counter space on one side of the garage.

 

[Brokenlink]

Well I certainly wish you the best building a garage, they are absolutely super fun to setup.

What does a small storage place cost in the bay? A few years at a few hundo and you're in $10k, so you'd better be putting $100k of appreciable assets in there. People always think they'll just use it for six months, then ten years later and they've spent god knows what for some beds, couple couches and hutch.

Ignore me, I thought we were talking storage units. :laughing

Brain is mush, woke up to early today.

 

[mean dad]

works fine till something you can't really see slides down through the milk crate, through the wire rack and locks them in place and you're in your flip flops trying not to trip on the anvil horn that's sticking out below and end up whacking your shin on it... hypothetically

No wire racks, and if I'm storing anything that small I put some cardboard in the milkcrate first. :thumbup

 

[byke]

:laughing. So true. I couldn't even spell "too". Today is a wash.

 

[nakedape]

If you have the headspace the ceiling bolt on heavy gauge wire racks are awesome. Takes a ton of stuff off the floor. We got some from costco for $300.

https://www.homedepot.com/b/Storage...ge-Racks-Garage-Overhead-Storage/N-5yc1vZccyy

 

[kingmoochr]

If you have the headspace the ceiling bolt on heavy gauge wire racks are awesome. Takes a ton of stuff off the floor. We got some from costco for $300.

https://www.homedepot.com/b/Storage...ge-Racks-Garage-Overhead-Storage/N-5yc1vZccyy

Peaked roof with rafters, and lights on all of the beams...

 

[nakedape]

Peaked roof with rafters, and lights on all of the beams...

Well that's out then. Our school recently demoed a bunch of portables, straight up crushed them with huge tracked diggers. A team of folks spent 48hours recovering all the high quality plywood cabinets for various garage and home projects.

Filled a huge U-haul and dropped off kits at three homes with garages. Huge PITA walking those things whole out of the tight access doors with handicapped ramps, but worth it in the end.

Look around, something similar might be happening in your hood. Public auctions too. The 70s era shelving was clear heart something (maybe pine, but seemed heavier), and I ended up with 60 bft.

 

[MrIncredible]

Looking to upgrade the garage with cabinets due to spiderwebs everywhere on everything. Anyone have any experiences? Leaning towards the newage bold line available at costco. Not going pro since I want to wall mount, figured I don't need the extra gauge in weight form and they won't see much action other than storage.

They're expensive and do nothing but gather shit.

Throw it away. The Christmas stuff too.

The makeup sex will be worth it later.

Or post divorce you'll have nothing left to store.

Either way you won't waste your time on a bunch of cabinets storing things you don't want.


Really, you should be shopping for another bike. You probably don't have enough.