Best Garage Storage.... File Cabinets? Shop, Tools, Supplies - Stacked drawer storage tip
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- Showing everyone an alternate idea for tool storage. I use these file cabinets in my office area (in the video) and in my garage at home.
If you find them on Facebook Marketplace, a Yard Sale, or anywhere used.... they are a great deal!
Let me know what you think and thanks for watching.
Requested Link to bins in this video - Hi-Rise Medium 4.5-Gallon (18-Quart) Grey/Green Tote with Latching Lid www.lowes.com/...
(Some file cabinets are adjustable for different size papers. These bins may or may not work in yours)
#Storage #Garage #Filecabinets
I'm just a homeowner. We recently moved and unfortunately I lost valuable shop and storage area so every little square inch really count's now.
I've looked at a lot of other file cabinet videos and the way you have utilized the space in yours is by far the best I've seen. Thank you for the video. Be blessed! 🙏👍
Thank you for the compliment and for watching. I have been using file cabinets for years and really like them. Best bang for the buck!
Looking to clean up the garage a little. You gave me some great ideas. The Rubbermaid bins that slide giving 2 layer access is really nice. Thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome 👍. Makes you not waste any space…
Appreciate you taking the time to comment!
I have a large filing cabinet. It’s old, I don’t use it for anything, and it takes up a lot of room. After watching your video I’m going to move it out to my woodworking shop and set it up for tools. My wife also saw this video and she wanted the cabinet to use as a linen closet. We did a rock, paper, scissors battle for the cabinet. I won! Guess I’ll be looking on Facebook for another one for her. Thanks for the great ideas.
Your welcome.. that’s brave taking the win 😂
I saw a pair today on Craigslist for my favorite price - F R E E !!! Just got to keep your eyes open for good deals!!
Nothing beats free...
I buy them at our county surplus yard for $25. Have found many at estate sales and auctions for $2.50 to $10.00. Absolutely great for power tools, extension cords, battery chargers, bottle jacks, jack stands, levels, etc. The bin idea is brilliant.
You can beat the bang for the buck or build anything else cheaper.
Thanks for your compliment and for watching. Sorry for the late reply, I haven’t been getting notifications like I used to.
Excellent idea. Thank you for the video.
@@Kaizen702 you are welcome 👍
Its funny have the same two file cabinets and cleaned them out...I have electronics and some old crafting material for my wife, but I did spend up and bought the Seville classics rolling metal cabinets Sam's club
They work great. I have seen some people mount casters to the 3 drawers units and make rolling workbenches.
I just don’t think you can beat them for bulk storage.
Thanks for watching and for the comment!
@@MORGANSMaintenance Agreed and I got them for free from an office liquidation
That is a real nice setup! At work (aircraft maintenance) I have traditional boxes and a cart. At home also but I recently found an old card catolog cabinet and and a 2 drawer standard file cabinet. They were cheap and very well made. As you said, the size of the drawers makes them invaluable for oddly sized stuff, limited only by your imagination. The move to "paperless" archives makes these easier to find than ever before.
I've actually been looking at an old library card catalog as well. I've been thinking about making it a fastener bin.
It is a little ways away from me. Ive just been deciding if it's worth the drive to get it.
Once I figured out the two layers I was sold on using th these. I was going to build plywood boxes with lips but found the totes that worked.
For the price, I can't make them better or cheaper.
Thanks for the comment!
I like your setup. I am using file cabinets as storage and tool boxes. I put casters on all of the cabinets in case I drop something and it’s easy to find and they’re easy to move so cleanup is so much easier. Also if I want to reconfigure the shop footprint, I’ve done this a few times, it’s easy to roll the cabinets to it’s new location.
That’s a good idea on the casters. Would definitely make it better for cleaning 👍
Thanks for this video! I have a file similar to yours that needs to be cleared out at my work. I'm going to bring it home which will make great storage for my supplies. I like the ideas of the sliding tubs.
Yeah it works really well, doubles your storage capabilities and more importantly...keeps you from digging through stuff. Thanks for watching and for the feedback. Glad I could help!
I like your Channel by the way 👍👍
Man that is an awesome setup. Thank you soooooo Much for sharing!!! I have access to these real cheap. This is gonna help me a whole bunch.
You can’t beat them for the price!
Thanks for watching
Great video, I have some larger size file cabinets that the doors flip up to expose the shelves. They work awesome.
Probably mentioned this before but I own restaurants and do 95% of my own maintenance as part of my job in addition to the 30,000 foot management. I could easily hire it out but I absolutely love it! There’s so much variety and something is always breaking. I’m expanding my portable M12 line so much I broke down and bought a Hart stack system (don’t laugh) just to see if I like that style of organization. It’s not bad but fairly flimsy. For $89 plus another $25 in 2 small organizers it’s a small investment. Looked at the packout but think it’s a bit overkill for me.
We have some of those in the “shared” storage space outside my office. Those work good for power tool storage.
If you get these at the right price you can’t build anything better… especially with the cost of materials these days.
Your digging in the archives watching this video 😂
If you live in an area with a lot of big office buildings, you won't have to look far to see all kinds of filing cabinets by the dumpsters. All free!
The ones I have in my home garage were free.. was doing a job and they were just going to throw them away.
I'm doing the same thing. Thank You Sir....GREAT JOB!!!!
Thank you. I really love my filing cabinets… they work great for me.
Morgan I’d love to see how you integrated the file cabinets into your work benches I briefly saw in another video
Ok. I will look into seeing if I can do that. I know most of what I’ve done I can’t get a camera into seeing the attachments now that it’s built but i possibly might do the same thing with the other two in my video that are just on a shelf.
Really glad I stumbled on your channel. I'm a GC that does a lot of maintenance on commercial and residential buildings. Looking at your tool setup we have similar jobs we do. Would love to see a video on your top five most common issues you run into. Any tips and tricks. Seems like you have a lot of great knowledge to share with the community.
Yeah I do a lot of different work (including some I probably shouldn’t 😂). Usually something totally different every day.
I’ve been trying to get the hang of filming while working. I have a lot of knowledge to share but the ability to film it is another story 😂
Thanks again for watching and the suggestion. Those are very helpful to give me ideas.
I use file cabinets in my shop at the high school for project materials.
Can't beat them for the price....in my opinion
Just bought one myself a few weeks ago. I like your idea of what to put in there and how. FB marketplace, 50 bucks all day long. Going in a new garage to work on vehicles. I'm thinking storage of oils and large air tools.
I really like the clean look over just shelves. Once I figured out the ability to do two layers with the totes for smaller items I was sold.
I have old commercial office building cabinet- walls ile folder storage cabinets and i use a massive blueprint storage cabinet for all my hand tools if your interested ill film my setup its pretty sweet i got everything for free at a scrap yard a friend worked at 20 years ago.
@@BIG_CHEVY_BOWSKIE_MIKE I’ve seen people use blueprint cabinets, old library card catalog cabinets, etc. lots of things that sometimes work better than anything new you can buy.
You can’t beat free 👍
My office was raffling office/lab furniture. Ended up winning a handful of mostly 36" 3 drawer but a few other sizes. Also won 3 really nice test benches made of solid paneled maple that are 2x72x36. they've got a top shelf that goes on the back of the top surface also made of maple with really nice LED lights and those long strip outlet bars.
Was thinking about selling all the cabinets but might see if I should keep a few for my shop and basement.
Sounds like some nice stuff.
I love my file cabinets. I like having stuff put away and not being able to see it. It’s a clean look.
You can’t do that with everything, but I try to do it with as much as I can.
I dig the idea
Thank you. I think it’s a great bang for the buck.
Thanks for watching!
Great idea!
Thank you!
Looking for those cabinets as we speak
You won’t be disappointed if you find a good deal. Thanks for watching!
Ove how those totes fit! Nice
Yeah and those supports are adjustable in/out on my cabinets so they can work with others.
I was going to build boxes out of plywood with lips but those fit in perfectly.
Thanks for the comment.
Loving It!!!
Appreciate it 👍
Do you have a link to the bins you have in your cabinets from Lowes? Great idea. I keep all my hoses, ext cords and cordless tools in my 2 drawer lateral. Works great.....but i love this bin idea.
Just added a link in the description for the medium size. The taller size of the same bin fits in my drawers from top to bottom for bigger stuff as well.
My drawers have adjustable slides… some don’t… so they may or may not work in every brand cabinet.
Hope this helps and thanks for the comment!
@@MORGANSMaintenance Thanks! I will check them out.
A link to the bins you used would be great
Just added a link in the description for the medium size. The taller size of the same bin fits in my drawers from top to bottom for bigger stuff as well.
My drawers have adjustable slides… some don’t… so they may or may not work in every brand cabinet.
Hope this helps and thanks for the comment!
Where do your gray, laterally-sliding trays come from? They look like a great improvement.
They are from Lowes. I put a link in the description for you.
My file cabinets are adjustable for different paper/folder sizes. Not all of them have that but most do. I was going to build plywood boxes with lips but those fit perfectly and worked for me. They also sell a taller one with the same footprint that fits in my drawers. That is what I have in my drawer with Paint Supplies in the video. I use that for bigger items just to separate them.
You can always try them and return them if they don’t work for you. Hope this helps but if I didn’t answer let me know.
Thanks for watching.
@@MORGANSMaintenance I'm surprised by both the apparent quality (lifetime guarantee) and Hefty name brand. At $12.98 each I'd have more Yankee dollars invested in these totes than the file cabinets cost so I searched for other retailers. The good news is that Target lists what appear to be the same item for $7.49 each. The bad news is that they don't have any. Nevertheless, there must be dimensionally suitable trays in the dollar store that would work for lightweight items. Alternatively, permanent, stacking plywood trays could be built by smart fellas like us, right?
@@markkoons7488 I already had a bunch of those totes and I think I paid $5 for them. I used to use them in drawers I built for my truck before I bought the Decked system.
Before I realized those totes worked I was going to just build simple plywood boxes out of cut offs. Then just nail a small strip on the outside edge of the box to make a lip to run on the file supports. (Hope that makes sense)
You could just make them stack on one another too if the lip isn’t an option in your cabinet.
@@markkoons7488 and on the dollar store there most likely is. Like I said my file supports are adjustable to fit many widths. I just so happened to have the Hefty Totes on hand
@@MORGANSMaintenance Yes, it does make sense. In typical legal size file cabinets plywood boxes or trays will work fine. I say that because I have five different brands and configurations of file cabinets storing stuff in my shop and your approach to increasing their utility will work in every one. That said, the solution to the problem of small items never occurred to me. Thank you.
i like to collict toolsa for a hobby have it real clean ything
I’m a bit of a tool collector as well. I do use them all but I try to keep them as clean as I can.
Where did you get the gray bins?
I purchased them at Lowes but it has been some time ago. I have a link in the description.
There are others that I am sure will work, but I already had these so I used them. My cabinets slides are adjustable for different size file folders so they are also adjustable to different size totes.
Hope that helps!
Thanks for replying promptly. Have just purchased 3 lateral file cabinets and am amazed at the storage capacity. Your idea with the bins just provided the solution to maximizing all the drawer space. Well done!
Dear Sir/Madam, May i know do you need the best supplier of Steel Furniture from China?
I’m not sure what you are asking…. these cabinets are Hon brand but I got them used. Any brand will work.
Hope that helps
So your not normal people? Odd.
😂 I’m not sure how I phrased it, but I meant if there is something you use for garage/tool storage that isn’t normally used for that..