You can add labels to the bottom of the totes to identify them. Also maybe mounting them horizontally is good so that you can access them from either side without having to take one off to access the inner one. I wonder if they will ever come off due to the long term vibration of the door.
I know tons of people do this, but just a warning to everyone out there: everyone has a different garage situation. Many homes are built to the bare minimum to pass inspection. If your garage only has a roof over it, especially one built of 2x4 prefabricated trusses, it may only be engineered to support a dead load weight of the roof itself, the strongest snowfall accumulation in your region, and 10 psf extra for hanging sheetrock. Now, does this mean your roof is gonna collapse if you put these all over your garage's ceiling and you get hit by a blizzard? Prolly not, cuz code requires a lot of this stuff to support *more* than the worst it should see, but if you *really* put a ton of heavy stuff up there? Well, maybe keep any bins full of brake rotors on the floor. :) Nice design! Great idea. Thanks for the video! Custom-built engineered I-joist for hanging!
Appreciate the warning and the comment. For sure every home is different and you should always check to make sure your situation can fit this kind of load. Thanks again!
Oh God! If your putting heavy stuff like brake rotors on the ceiling like this, you must really hate yourself. Getting something heavy like that up and down from the ceiling like that would be really unpleasant.
@@Zod_JB Right, those bins hold bulky but light weight items as well as seasonal decorations. The guy who keeps shoving brake rotors up there had a few too many of them fall on his head, so now he keeps forgetting the lesson he should have learned and keeps repeating the same mistake.
I would have gone with clear boxes so I could see inside them or light coloured ones as the black colour sucks the light out of the room. Maybe paint them a light colour to brighten up the room again.
This video brings up one of my sources of anxiety, though... once you find great storage bins, they eventually discontinue that particular model. So, if you ever need more, they won't match/fit/stack/etc. UGH! Hate that!
Nice video. Great idea if you have a garage. I have a carport and couldn't afford a garage when we bought our house. Also, we got shafted when we got this house, because we found out later the contractor cut corners left and right and barely followed code, but that was over 32+ years ago!
Nice idea on the wooden I beam as hangers. Couple things I learned with these storage bins: Label each one. They are different brands from Home Depot vs Lowes vs Costco- so pick one place and only get them from that store. Having different brands where size is slightly different and lids don’t interchange sux.
Just be careful when attaching to the "ceiling joists" - in many houses they run 1x2 strapping perpendicular to the joists for the purposes of hanging drywall - so anything you hang can end up being supported by the 1x2, which is much weaker than the actual joist you think you're attaching to. A quick peek into the attic to confirm the direction of the ceiling joists will tell you.
@@GordoSTI It could exceed the floor rating as well. You have to allow 40psf live load plus dead load. So if the bins are 100lbs, he adding another 15psf which is pretty significant. It probably won't collapse unless there is a design or construction flaw, but it still may not meet code requirements.
Will be doing a modified version of this exact thing but under an existing shelf instead of to the ceiling. Nicely done. I like that you show the challenges (not mistakes) along the way as well. Got my Sub - Also I'm a fellow Utah Tuber as well. I'll check out some of your other vids today as well. 🙌
Thats a great idea to utilize that empty space between the garage door and the ceiling, issue is the wife would say, thats just more of an excuse to hoard more things.
Haha, Yeah we've had that exact same conversation. but there are legit stuff that needs to be put away for seasonal use. But totally understand what you mean.
make sure you label each box where visible with the contents or number each box and have a list of contents. Be careful not to put too much weight above your head.
Next project... Lower the outfeed table so you don't have to bump your cut over the edge. You are just playing with fire with the current setup. If you ever have a saw catch a board and throw it backwards, you will quickly thank me.
How did that work out with the expanding and contracting of the wood with that little bit of clearance? I'd assume there would be some sag of the bins over time.
Hi there...at 6:00 or so, I was looking at the installed slides, and I was seeing 2 screwheads per location, and not just the one down the middle that I saw at 2:05...what did I miss? Great idea, and I'm looking to implement this solution in my garage as well.
I would use more than open screw head per runner. I just didn’t show my doing that in the video. Using three screws and wood glue should be plenty of strength to hold. Thanks for watching!
The prior owner of my house installed all of this in the garage. My first project was to tear it all out and make the garage clean looking. A garage is for cars, not storage. Nothing looks worse from the road than a garage full of storage. Spend the money on a tough shed in the back yard.
I probably would if I had a back yard. I live in a town home. Everyone has different priorities, and mine is storage over curb appeal. Plus you can’t see them from the road because when the garage door is up, they are hidden. Thanks for your input though.
hahaha vernier haha I had some leftover steel from installing my garage door opener I did this 5 years ago you don't need to spend all that money on wood and you don't have to use a vernier.....
Love these DIY project.. that use table saws and other equipment that 90% of people do not have. With my hand saw ( you know the manual arm power kind) and a hammer this just becomes a TME (too much effort project).
Sorry I didn't include it originally. Here is a link to it apps.apple.com/us/app/tape-measure-calculator-pro/id482504435 Its an app on the iPhone, I'm not sure if it is on android. Thanks for making me aware I forgot that link!
I wonder if there's a pre-built structure like some kind of I-beam that is the same as the dimensions that you created. That way one can just get a long run of it and cut it to size so the bins can slide into them.
You may not want a huge run of totes in case you want to take out the first tote you slid in. 2 to 3 totes per hanging section I think would be most convenient unless it's long term storage
I don’t think this will last in hot summers with a lot of weight in the plastic boxes and hot 120+ summers not a good combination, maybe wood or aluminum boxes will do great idea though!
Yeah I thought about that. Originally I was going to add a QR code to the bottom of each one that you could scan and it would bring up a picture and list of what Is in each one. But I just haven’t gotten around to doing that. But clear totes would be a great idea too!
Great idea! Now how about some ideas on how to comfortably lift in excess of 50-100 lbs over your head, standing on a ladder and sliding the tote onto rails with almost zero clearence.
@@SaltCityWorkshop Hey no harm intended just warning viewers since I broke like 10 of them this summer under normal contractor use. And they are sold in a building supply store not a homewares store so you would think they would be better. Shop use may not damage them as quickly as truck use.
Also worth noting that many people’s 2x4 truss chord attic ceilings really should not be loaded with belongings from the top or bottom, especially in older houses. I imagine most viewers have an intuition for that though. All the best.
Jokes on you, I don’t park my car in my garage. And it has yet to sag even 1/16 of an inch since it was hung almost a year ago. But of course, you would need to watch the full video to know that. 😆
I am gonna copy this! The entire ceiling!!! 😂😂. Quarter inch,,, one fourth is also correct, but makes you sound less knowledgeable in the eyes of a crusty old b*st*rd like me! 😂😂 Thanks for the idea!! Well done, VERY well explained (except for,, you know😂), and it looks good as well!
