The Ultimate Garage Utility Bench

Answer 1

A workbench in the garage is an extremely useful thing to own. In the majority of homes, most lawn equipment, automobiles, generators, and other machinery are kept in the garage or shed. Most often, personal shops are set up in the basement of the house. This makes servicing such machinery a great inconvenience as the machinery must be brought to the tools or vice versa.

The solution is to have a garage workbench. There are two ways to acquire a garage workbench: they can be purchased or they can be built. Each method has their own strengths an weaknesses. Purchasing a workbench is often very expensive. The average person who might want a workbench in their garage probably likes to build things anyway, so building one may be the best overall option. The benefit of purchasing one is that no time has to be spent designing or constructing the bench itself.

Whichever method is chosen, it should be noted that the workbench should include four main parts in order to maximize its utility. The first part consists of a chest of drawers or pull-out shelves to store small tools which are too large for a pegboard. These include drill motors, large wrenches, and spare tools like extra hammers. Tools smaller than this are kept on the second part, the pegboard above the bench. The most commonly used tools are hung here for quick access. Screwdrivers, small wrenches, scissors, and others find their home here to prevent having a drawer full of sharp tools to dig through. The third part consists of a shelving unit either next to the bench or under the bench itself. These shelves are used to store larger and heavier items such as a shop vacuum, an air compressor, heavy toolboxes, and other things of that nature.

Using this four-piece system will ensure that the garage workbench is complete and well-suited for the tasks it is designed to handle. All of these parts can be purchased from major tool chest and workbench suppliers or designed and built yourself out of somewhere around $150 in wood.