Garage Storage

Proper storage solutions in garages can make your whole house less cluttered and things easy to find. In most households, anything that you can’t find a space for ends up in the garage. And after a point, even moving from one side of the garage becomes like an obstacle course.

Some tips to organized storage in the garage

• If you have a connecting door from the house to the garage, you need to make sure that the stuff that you need on an everyday basis are on the shelves close to the connecting door and you don’t have to cross the whole garage all the time. Divide everything into groups before you start organizing the garage, for instance gardening tools, rubbish bins et cetera. Make a map of your garage and decide where each item should be. Try to make sure that all these items are stored together close to the exit where they need to be taken in or brought out from.

• Make sure that the shelves that you put are very close to the garage as they might hinder the raising and lowering of the garage door. Garage Door Repair Mill Valley will be able to advise you regarding what door to buy according to what the garage is used for.

• If you use your garage to store inflammable liquids, then you have to make sure that there is enough ventilation in the garage as fumes from the liquids will need an outlet from the garage.

• Use every part of the garage, especially the walls. Companies like Mill Valley garage door can help you to choose overhead storage, brackets on the wall for bikes, wall organizers and wall lifts.

• When planning storage, make sure that sharp gardening tools, weed killers or anything that might be harmful is stored on the top shelves or in lockable cabinets so that children cannot gain access to them.

• Make sure that things like bikes and gardening tools—anything that can fall and damage the paintwork on your car is stored away.

• Try and get transparent plastic storage containers so that you know at a glance what piece of equipment is in what part of the garage. Things like Christmas decorations that only come out once a year can be put away on overhead shelves that you can’t reach without a ladder.