Is your garage full of junk? Do you actually know what’s in all those old boxes and bags? If you have a free day or weekend to spare, making the most of your garage is a highly advantageous task. Rather than just giving the place a clean-up, it is much more beneficial to create a garage storage plan. In these five simple steps we turn this daunting task into manageable chunks.
1. Clean and Clear
The first step is probably the worst. Make sure it’s not going to rain and take everything out of your garage and then sort it all out in what you need and what you can throw away. If you have a lot of stuff that you’re likely to throw away it might be worth renting a skip or if not you can make trips to the tip. Be ruthless and try your best to declutter and not hoard.
2. Organise
Once you’ve got rid of everything you don’t need, you can order things into their appropriate piles and categories. Then once you come to putting things back in your garage, it’ll all be in the correct order and similar things can be kept together. You’ll always know where all your tools are and you’ll have no trouble finding your cleaning equipment.
3. Plan
Now you have an empty garage you should plan where everything goes. Use the height of the garage and consider fitting shelves for smaller items and roof racks for ladders and fold-up chairs. It is very important to use your space wisely and consider what you use on a regular basis. For items such as a bike that you might use everyday, you should store it at the front. Whereas larger tools such as heavy duty jump start equipment or lawn mowers could be stored at the back or in a corner.
4. Build/Buy Storage
Once you’ve decided what you need, you can now buy or build shelves, roof-racks and wall hangers. Using all these items really makes the most of the space you have, rather than just plonking everything on the floor and hogging all the room that way. Carefully measure any wood or metal that you’re going to use and consider health and safety.
5. Implement
You should now have a clean your garage, got rid of stuff you don’t need, categorised what you do need and fitted any necessary new storage systems. All you need to do know is put everything back into the garage with the bigger and less used equipment like jump starters or a canoe at the back and frequently used things like a bicycle at the front. Once in use, be careful to continue the organised system so that you don’t get into the same messy state as before.
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