Simple Cheap Storage Solutions
Not an original idea to many but the application may be. With a bit of local advertising , this could be a little cash side job for those 18+ yo with low start up costs! Use some left over latex paint for a finished look. Paint first. A cheap electric sprayer works well and you'll see the stored items easier. I used a light gray masonry floor paint.
Hanging Items on Drywall screws.
Take some fine thread dry wall screws (1.5" or longer) and a cordless drill and head to the basement assuming you have one. I prefer screws over nails because they are easier to install and move around with a cordless drill. Go into the space under the stairs and screw the screws into the back side if the stair risers and into the floor joices. Now you can hang small items on the screws and find things more easily. Just about anything can be hung up especially those items with the holes in the packaging like those for laundry lint traps, shoe laces, night light bulbs, Q-tips, bore snakes. paint brushes, etc. Find the spacing is a bit off? Simply relocate the screw. No packaging? No problem! Use a ziploc bag and poke a hole through it. Clean out those junk drawers and boxes on shelves and in the bottom of closets, etc. I found forgotten items, 3 large packages of Q-tips, threw away things, etc.
Run out of room? Attach some furring strips to a wall and attach a piece of Masonite or other thin board to the furring strips and you have more area for screws. Use instead of pegboard and the added expense of the hooks. Use the screws in the floor joices by a work bench for those items you don't use often like a squeeze tube of caulk, spools of fishing line, etc.. Use screws between the studs in your garage being careful not to go through the wall. Use them in the rafters. Roll up the hose, tie it with some rope and hang it for winter storage.
Organize or segregate by the type of item. Store kid's craft items together and down low so they can reach them. Put your baseball caps on a wall for show or inside a storage room. Space some screws apart and wrap with something soft to store extra, long gun barrels.
Cheap shelving for small items.
Cut some (scrap?) pieces of Masonite, peg board or 3/8" plywood about 5.5" wide and attach to the bottom of a floor joice or rafter with the drywall screws. Now you have space and easy access for those AR magazines, boxes of ammo, primers, canned food, etc. If the items are heavy, use 3/8" plywood and more screws. If there is an exposed I beam, use it.
For the garage, cut some 1'"x4" stock to fit horizontally between the studs. For really heavy items like lead ingots, containers of cast bullets, bottles of shot, etc., cut the same stock at a desired length for vertical supports and starting at the floor screw them into the studs. Then place the horizontal boards on top. No time consuming measuring. Furring strips can be used for the supports for light weight items such as quarts of oil, gardening products, etc. but require predrilling and measuring and marking where they need to be placed. However, they do allow more space on each shelf, Next time I'll try drywall screws instead of the furring strips.
Get organized!
Do you have any simple storage ideas or improvements on the above?
Jim
Hanging Items on Drywall screws.
Take some fine thread dry wall screws (1.5" or longer) and a cordless drill and head to the basement assuming you have one. I prefer screws over nails because they are easier to install and move around with a cordless drill. Go into the space under the stairs and screw the screws into the back side if the stair risers and into the floor joices. Now you can hang small items on the screws and find things more easily. Just about anything can be hung up especially those items with the holes in the packaging like those for laundry lint traps, shoe laces, night light bulbs, Q-tips, bore snakes. paint brushes, etc. Find the spacing is a bit off? Simply relocate the screw. No packaging? No problem! Use a ziploc bag and poke a hole through it. Clean out those junk drawers and boxes on shelves and in the bottom of closets, etc. I found forgotten items, 3 large packages of Q-tips, threw away things, etc.
Run out of room? Attach some furring strips to a wall and attach a piece of Masonite or other thin board to the furring strips and you have more area for screws. Use instead of pegboard and the added expense of the hooks. Use the screws in the floor joices by a work bench for those items you don't use often like a squeeze tube of caulk, spools of fishing line, etc.. Use screws between the studs in your garage being careful not to go through the wall. Use them in the rafters. Roll up the hose, tie it with some rope and hang it for winter storage.
Organize or segregate by the type of item. Store kid's craft items together and down low so they can reach them. Put your baseball caps on a wall for show or inside a storage room. Space some screws apart and wrap with something soft to store extra, long gun barrels.
Cheap shelving for small items.
Cut some (scrap?) pieces of Masonite, peg board or 3/8" plywood about 5.5" wide and attach to the bottom of a floor joice or rafter with the drywall screws. Now you have space and easy access for those AR magazines, boxes of ammo, primers, canned food, etc. If the items are heavy, use 3/8" plywood and more screws. If there is an exposed I beam, use it.
For the garage, cut some 1'"x4" stock to fit horizontally between the studs. For really heavy items like lead ingots, containers of cast bullets, bottles of shot, etc., cut the same stock at a desired length for vertical supports and starting at the floor screw them into the studs. Then place the horizontal boards on top. No time consuming measuring. Furring strips can be used for the supports for light weight items such as quarts of oil, gardening products, etc. but require predrilling and measuring and marking where they need to be placed. However, they do allow more space on each shelf, Next time I'll try drywall screws instead of the furring strips.
Get organized!
Do you have any simple storage ideas or improvements on the above?
Jim
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My stepdaughters would tell you “Store it at Mom’s House”. 0 -
I'm not quite that hoi polloi. 0 -
if you have so much junk you need to hang it on every rafter, floor joist and on the back of every step, you have to much junk....................... 6
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