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Items in the garage tend to get cluttered after a while, but Eric Stromer has a solution. He's created the ultimate store-all organizational unit that you can easily build in your home. With a peg board, wood and some PVC pipe, you'll have a place to put everything, including your brooms and baseballs.

Step 1
Clear out an area in your garage. Hang furring strips on the wall and then attach peg board to the strips. Use a screw every 12-14 inches to hold the peg board flat against the furring strips.

Step 2
Use smaller furring strips at the bottom of the peg board to begin your floor bin. Screw in the right side piece and repeat for the left and center divider of the cabinet. Then screw in the front panel to complete the cubby. Use the same method for your side shelving. 1x12 pine will work just fine.

Step 4
Pre-drill holes in PVC pipe and fasten to the back of the peg board. These will keep things like brooms and mops in order.

Step 5
You can also use a piece of PVC pipe with a 90-degree on it to hold baseballs, tennis balls, etc. Just drill a hole into the back and attach to the peg board at your desired height.

Items You'll Need for this GMC Trade Secret

  • Furring strips
  • Peg board
  • 1x12 pine pieces
  • Screws
  • PVC Pipe

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Black Horse Pass

Hang the wide things, brooms, rakes, etc., with the wide part either near the ceiling or floor. Put the handles together in a long double hook with wide parts hanging from the hook (up high) or a long single hook, if your equipment has holes in the handles. Precious pegboard space is wasted with rakes and broom bristles. Many things can be hung between the handles of these tools. The bin looks like one of those messy things you would be telling people how to do better in another segment. Not trying to be mean here, it's just not much of a system. I have five times as many things hanging in a very organized manner on 1/2 a sheet of pegboard. PVC pipe is a costly way to store one broom! Frankly, this looks like a before picture to me. Sorry...

March 19 2013 at 12:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joe Wilde Company

These are great garage door tips. Organizing your garage can be a big task, if you aren't prepared! Watching these videos were very helpful and we've shared them with some of our customers!

If you'd like to read more about garage doors, visit our website: http://www.joewilde.com/

December 18 2012 at 12:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rlmcanoe

I usually don't watch these videos, but my garage and the upstairs in my home need cleaning, I found this video interesting, my husband would like to just get a dumpster and toss everything, but that's not in me, I would prefer something like this be put up and then both area's can get straightened out. nice video

December 09 2012 at 8:05 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
wlccx52

This guy is a posser. I dont like these guys who want you to think that they REALLY know all this stuff.
I wonder how many takes there were before he got it right. Those screws went in pretty easy. I bet everything was either pre drilled or was put together by a REAL craftsman and then taken apart. And whats with the pipe for baseballs. Its only got one screw in it and that will break really fast, plus the fact that the kids will open the pipe and the balls will be all over the place......keeping them in a bucket is WAYYYYYY better,,,,,along with your mitt. This was stupid.

December 09 2012 at 2:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
w4fop

I have a wooden pallet nailed standing up to one wall, and it holds all the shovels and rakes you can throw at it.

December 08 2012 at 10:29 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
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larryhume55

sounds RED-NECK-I-FIED there w-4 YOU can do better then that !!!FIX up your MAN CAVE DUDE!!! It's called being "ARTSIE--FARTSIE . GOTTA BE #1 GRADE LUMBER ALL THE WAY FOR THE WIN !

December 09 2012 at 2:12 AM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
Nestor

Hey, that garage looks more organized that most I have seen!

December 08 2012 at 8:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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larryhume55

then you'ed love my 10x12 shed it's got electric ,light ,heat in winter & a/c in summer , radio & T.V and befor that my boys turned it into ther sleeping & play area with lofted bunks in a hip-roof design...now...later on & there grown it's still my shop & storage area amid a dog who saws z's not wood.
I tend to call ORGINIZED CUSTER-F@*^!K with standing room that looks like LOW'ES exploded in it . NEXT: A 16x20 an need every inch of it , for a car rebuild & shop & office / mans cave.

December 09 2012 at 2:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dzoefit

i have easier idea. buy a large trash container, rectangular. affix to a couple studs if you wish. place all mops, rakes, shovels, anything on a pole inside the bin. presto.

December 08 2012 at 6:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
arenadood

We had a building code in San Diego that where an electric wire or pipe ran thru a stud you had to put a metal plate over the spot so no nails or screws could hit them. I have pegboard in most of my garage along with roll around shelves and tool boxes. I do tend to leave tools on my work bench that my wife usually reminds me about.

December 08 2012 at 6:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
lthrnck68

Boy, you must not be very experienced if you want to call that a messy garage.

December 08 2012 at 5:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pm0501

LOL... Typical actor turned handyman.

I built something similar to this a decade ago but used 3/4 plywood on the wall instead of the firing strips and pegboard. I also painted the whole schmear with waterproof porch paint. I mean hey.... I use water to hose down my garage floor!

Maybe I missed it but unless you pre drill the PVC pipe to screw it to the wall, the PVC will crack that close to the ends when you try to drive a drywall screw through it.

I also built a unit next to it with "whack-a-mole" holes for holding my rakes, shovels, brooms etc.

December 08 2012 at 2:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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