The first major rain after the dry Summer last year resulted in quite a lot of water ending up in my workshop. Not for the first time, and as most of the units I was using were made of chipboard (old kitchen units in the main) resting directly on the floor the damage was fairly predictable. I didn’t have a lot of choice but to rip them all out and do something new. Only then health issues intervened and I ended up with a workshop with large piles of tools and the accumulation of twenty years of “stuff” all over the place, not to mention two 220 litre barrels of cider, making the workshop impossible to use.
So between “blood pressure rests” today I started trying to sort it out. A major consideration this time around is that wherever possible anything in contact with the floor should be metal or plastic, so it won’t absorb water. I have some clip-together racking in the other half of the workshop which has been pretty good, but I didn’t really want anything quite as deep (and I couldn’t justify the cost at the moment) so I picked up a lighter-weight, narrower version of the same product.
I got a bit over-excited making it up and did too much at first which meant fitting the corner unit was a bit of a pain (especially as I also had to move an electrical socket over a little), but eventually I got that in.
And then the two other units I’d already made up.
For the moment I’m just trying to find a space for everything which will allow me to actually use my tools. It’s just a case of finding stuff and dumping it on the shelves.
And finally having made a bit more room I could add one more rack.
Now I can actually use my table saw again, the next stage is to make up some kitchen-style cabinets from sheet material offcuts to go in this space. I’ve put together and/or butchered quite a few of those over the years, so hopefully it won’t be too difficult. And standing on plastic feet this time. I have quite a lot of offcuts lying about, but this might take a day or two depending on how physically demanding it turns out to be.