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Top Tips for Organising Your Garage
Most of us don’t actually use our garages for storing vehicles, they’re used more as a general storage space.
This means that, more often than not, it can become cluttered and chaotic – not that we’re complaining as we get a lot of business in the way of clearing garages and other types of outbuildings, but we thought that it would be a good idea to share some of our professional organising tips.
Optimise your space
Use shelving that utilises the full height of your garage walls and if possible, use the roof space too. Install overhead storage racks and keep things up there that you don’t use very often such as Christmas decorations.
If you have empty wall space, use it to hang power tools and other large items. That way they’re easy to get to and you will have cleared them from the floor space.
Keep your floor clear
Where possible, avoid storing any items on the floor. If you keep your floor space open, you can keep on top of cleaning. Storing items on the floor also makes the garage look cluttered. You need everything to be visible and stacking things on top of and behind each other will ruin any organising attempts and most probably cause you to swear every time you try to find something.
Create groups
Create groups of similar items such as gardening, car, DIY, sports & outdoor, and anything else that you have room for. Keeping things in categories will make it much easier to find and to keep organised. A peg board is a good solution for storing your DIY tools that you use more often. The key thing is to make all of your most used items easily accessible with no obstructions. Basically, store your items in an order of least used to most used at the front.
Clean, box up and label
If you take a little bit of pride in your garage, you’re more likely to keep it clean. Sweep the floor often and give surfaces a wipe down. By taking a little bit of time every now and again to clean, you’ll be more inclined to keep everything organised and you’ll never have to do an annual ‘big’ clean again. With smaller items store them in boxes and label the front - you’ll never lose a thing and you’ll always have easy access.
Don’t hoard
If you struggle to throw things away ’just in case’, keep a bin in your garage and place any items in it, such as that old screwdriver you never use or that old bag of painting rags. Every time the bin gets full, have a proper sort through and dispose of anything that you haven’t touched for months.
Our biggest piece of advice – do not store food in your garage. The local wildlife will see it as an invitation for dinner and you’ll end up with an infestation that could get into your house.
We can clear any part of your home in order to create usable space. For a no obligation quote or some expert advice, just give us a call on 01384 660620 or complete the enquiry form
on our website.
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