Work Bench on the Cheap

Step 10 Follow Up - Things I'd probably do differently

So now that I've had some time to use the bench and sleep on things, there are a couple of things that I would have done differently.

1.) I would have run at least one cross beam for the top. The current model has a little more bounce in it than I would prefer.

2.) I would have anticipated the need for drawers and figured out how to build them. I've built tables with drawers before, but not well. I would have looked into how to do this and made a few nice drawers to store little things like random screws & nails, string and unusual tape.

3.) I've always wanted to have a cool work table that I could roll around my garage. When working on my car (see previously mentioned brake job) it would have been really nice not to have to walk across the garage to dump brake fluid. I think that I would have skipped the top shelf in favor of casters.

Comments

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Instead of drawers, I would buy a couple of plastic bins with a fitting drawer size. Then you build a little shelving unit by adding 2 2x4 legs and as many cross beams and shelve as you want drawers. Now stick your stuff in the bins and place the bins on the shelves.

I like having it that way for 2 reason:

1) cleaning purposes: it is easy to take a bin out and wash it. I like my stuff clean and spider free.

2) It is practical to be able to pull the bin and bring it with you say, in the garden cause you have a project and will need hardware or in the living room, ect.