6 Awesome Shop Storage Systems to Organize Your Workshop (or Garage)

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[Agoddamnbetch]

My dad has been talking about cleaning up and organizing our garage/workshop but at his age he’s been having a hard time. He just went out of town for a few days and I’m going to surprise him by doing it all for him. I’m going to leave a few things unfinished and say I “couldn’t reach” or wasn’t “strong enough” so he can do them and feel good about himself. Thanks for the video!

[ImConstantlyDrunk]

Pfft. Obviously you've never experienced the joy and ease of use of buckets, milk crates, and just throwing everything on the work bench until it all starts to avalanche.

[thecrapadventuresofchesimo]

For the wood wall proponents...

If you trace around your tools and colour in the outline, you got yourself a shadow board ala your grandpa's shed. Which I'm sure we can all agree is the best shed there ever was.

[jamesthomas]

You missed the wood wall system, otherwise known as the french cleat system without bothering with the cleats. Attach a piece of plywood to the wall and then you can screw your tool holders to it. Aside from not having to make the cleats, another advantage is that some things just need a nail or a screw to hang on so you don't need to make a holder for them. And if you really need to be able to easily lift a holder off the wall then just screw in a small section of cleat for it.

[TomHoppe]

Couple people also mentioned this, but just the plain "screw plywood to the wall, screw tool holders to it" "system" is my go to. I was going to go all french cleat, but realized that I hardly ever, if literally ever, will reorder my tools, and if I do need to, I'll just unscrew and rescrew. Saved a bunch of time over dealing with french cleats, and more importantly, in my mind, I can space things out how I want, if they are shorter/taller than the predetermined distance of your french cleats.

[Treehandler]

I’ve been mindlessly using the “not enough room so everything ends up in a giant pile” system for years. It’s cost me nothing but my sanity

[sapelesteve]

Excellent video Johnny & I totally agree with you about the French Cleat system! 👍👍

[MB]

I like tornado hooks for long tools, shelves and bins for smaller tools, I keep bins for like all my paint stuff, pvc, nail guns, pumps, generators etc on shelves, peg board and magnets for really commonly used tools, and then a big mechanic tool boxes.

[chrisfox]

Loved the vid. I had french cleats at my last place. I realized that after 3 years of working with that system, I never moved a holder once it was on the wall. I thought I would always be changing stuff around to improve the organization. Nope. I just drill or nail everything to the wall now. Even most of my hand tools that have a hole in the handle is just hung on a nail on the wall.

[gdworkshop]

The heavy duty shelves are a great job very versatile in a workshop.

[jronmanbuilds]

For drawer organization Gridfinity looked like a good option. I have never used it. My main storage for my tools is modular tool boxes. I currently use systainers and tough system. I also have industrial shelving for my storage unit where I keep all my commercial lawn mowing stuff

[MCsCreations]

Fantastic tips, Johnny! Thanks a bunch! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[tomsmith]

Really balanced presentation! One thing I would add is that the "rail" that I have is a 1x3, painted white, with either dowels, hooks, or nails in it. That's what I have in my garage, all the long things hang from that.

You make a good point about being locked into a brand with some systems. In my opinion, no one should buy into any system that is brand specific, if for no reason other than it will eventually be cancelled. Use plywood, cabinets, cleats, pegboard, open shelving. If there aren't many companies making the product, you're both stuck and paying too much.

[NickGranville]

A dab of hot glue is a solution for the pegs coming off when removing tools from a pegboard. It’s easy to remove the glue when you want to reposition. But i still don’t like pegboards

[shervegas]

It looks great! You are definitely talented.

[andrewsmith]

More videos of you actually building!! Love the channel

[JohnnyRayThompson]

you could flip your versa track upside down use c chan to hold peg board and then top it with more versa track. works pretty good.

[mickey]

Good video. I use slat wall in my shop

[justinrenda]

I have a little of everything besides French cleats. Pegboard is great for in-package items and some small tools, etc. Otherwise some husky wall cabinets, us general drawer units, Milwaukee pack out for my drills and batteries, then just some home built shelves/workbench. I use the track system for horses, and shelves too. I did what worked best for me.

[nefariousyawn]

A single sheet of thick plywood, spaced from the wall with 1x2. Place nails or screws as needed to hang tools from. It's just so simple, no building special holders that also hang from cleats, no losing pegs. If you aren't setting up a retail display, how often do you really need to shuffle stuff around your pegboard or cleats?