So What Do You Do Next?
I mentioned in my last story that there were some more things that you need to do if you want to make your garage complete. Here’s a few extra things you might like to think about if you want to make your garage more useful.
You need to have a workbench. A workbench is a place where you put all your tools and also where you work on things you need to work on. And I like to have some extra things fitted to my workbench too like a vice and an electric grinder.
So how do you build a workbench?
You need to have a frame in place to build your workbench on and you can again use pine timber to build a frame of your bench. It’s relatively simple to do but you have to make sure that you make it strong enough to support the weight of anything that might be on your bench including the weight of the bench itself.
You need to bolt together a series of uprights and horizontal members with a flat top to sit your bench on.
I used a three-quarter inch piece of MDF as my benchtop and it has worked very well. I bolted my vice straight through the MDF and I also bolted my grinder right through the MDF and both have held very well. I have heard that MDF is too soft to do this with but I have not found this to be true.
I made them both a top surface and a 2nd surface for my workbench, in other words a higher and a lower bench. This is because I need a large storage area for all my electrical tools and my other tools.
I workbench is working extremely well and it’s a good way to make your garage more useful.
The other thing to do if you wish is to line the inside of the garage. Of course if you put weatherboard on the outside of the frame you still have frame on the inside and this doesn’t look so good. So you can use a lining materials such as cement sheet to line the inside if you wish, though it isn’t necessary and of course it adds to the expense.
I didn’t bother lining mine inside because I didn’t see the need.
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