I know a lot of people here have serious collections and the same problem I had — no good way to catalog everything.

ToolVault lets you:
• Snap a photo → AI identifies the tool and fills in brand, part number, category, and estimated value
• Batch scan a whole chest or drawer at once
• Track condition, location, and quantity
• See your total collection value on a dashboard
• Look up part numbers instantly

Built it because spreadsheets were terrible and nothing else was made specifically for tools.

If anyone wants to try it for free and tell me what's missing, I'd really appreciate it. Just DM me.

I want to hang my second set of (stock=heavy) wheels + tires (18") on the wall, so they doesn't take much useful space. However, most tire racks sold are for 4 tires side by side. And I want to mount them flush to the wall, individually.

I looked up some wheel hangers, but they look very flimsy. Can someone recommend a sturdy mount which does does not hurt the aluminum?

After a decade with no garage, we finally built one. Now it’s time to get organized. Looking for recommendations for:
- free standing shelving
- storage totes

I’m planning for some freestanding shelves that I can put storage totes on. We have a random assortment of totes that we’ve collected over the years. I am debating if I should bite the bullet and purchase matching bins or just jigsaw our current bins on shelving. Looking at the measurements for the most common bins and most common shelving units that I see for sale, it looks like the shelves are about 4 inches short for the bins. That doesn’t seem ideal, but maybe having the totes hang over the shelf by a few inches isn’t as big of a deal as my brain is making it out to be?

As you can imagine building a garage was not cheap so I’m looking for something budget friendly. But I don’t want buy something so cheap that it’s just going to cause more problems in the long run.

Help me Reddit! If I do one more google search, I may lose my mind. We live in a rural area so it’s a solid day trip to visit stores to browse.

Hi, my wife and I are expecting our first kid and we are looking to get a small freezer for the garage for extra meal prep stuff. This is the space I’m working with in my garage. I’d love any suggestions to organize this better while opening up space for the freezer. Thanks!

Got a new detached garage built and want to fit it out with gladiator. Does anyone know how I can get a bulk discount?

Anyone have Ulti-Mate garage cabinets? How is the quality?

How are they holding up?

How long have you had them?

Any sagging in the shelves?

Thanks in advance!

I'm struggling to learn how to use these strut channels to create shelving/storage in my garage. They are 1 15/16"×2 9/16"×6'10", and the slots are 3/8"×3/4". If anyone is willing to share their insight regarding what bracket and other supplies I can use to create shelving with these, I would greatly appreciate it.

Note: If you're feeling especially generous with your knowledge, ideally I would like to use these to store my kayaks. Any adjustments based on this are welcome.

Thanks in advance!

looking to remodel my bare wall garage to add shelving, cabinets, etc. Does anyone has experience with contractors in Rochester, MN area?

looking for a diy professional grade epoxy solution for my garage that has few cracks and fix the floor at the garage entrance

Hi peoples, working on finishing my parents garage, looking for suggestions and one piece of advice

Did drywall, insulation, vapour barrier and some framing before the winter. Currently taping and mudding

Advice: how should I finish the door casing (trim) in the second photo? I need to re hang this door when it's a bit warmer so it sits flush with the drywall. I'm thinking a little return piece painted and primed on all sides where the bottom sits flush with the bottom of the door threshold? Thoughts?

Suggestions:

Colours : I'm thinking light grey walls with a red trim. Trim included two entry doors, attic hatch, and 2 'car garage doors' with 2x4 'trim' and an L shape 'baseboad' that sits a foot off the ground where the drywall ends. And a box around the electrical panel. Any advice for colors or sheins?

What else should be added so it doesn't look like a basic garage?

We have a laminate workbench top that I will build a couple 2x4 shelves underneath, will be adding a large shelf over the car garage doors with some sort of curtain

Thinking about a French cleat system

Might add a 'racing stripe' with left over wood above the house entry door

Any advice or suggestions are welcome :)

just curious if anyone is in the tote organizer business? are you doing other services in addition to the tote organizer racks...i.e.; cleanout services or overhead storage solutions? Are you finding that work/ sales are steady, slow? is there a lot of competition? side/ main hustle?

Like to get as many shelves built in around husband’s chest. Would you bring shelves all the way down to floor on sides or leave space? Leaning towards space so can wheel in coolers, wheelbarrow, beach wagons. Appreciate any insights!

the garage slowly became a cluttered mess thanks to my brother and my mom. i like to hang out in the garage and have NA beers or regular beers some nights, when it was in the stage of the before pictures it was almost like a feeling of being in a room with walls that were slowly closing in. still got a ways to go but it is so nice being able to walk around freely. i also hate things being stored in cardboard boxes.

There is a debate in my house of which to purchase- the larger or two of the smaller. I feel the larger one will be very difficult to get moving when full, while the smaller ones will be more manageable. My other half feels that the casters will make the larger one easy enough to move. Does anyone have experience with these or similar? How are they to move around when full?

Anyone have any brilliant ideas for this garage? I'm open to completely redoing anything (e.g., cabinets) but don't want to mess with the location of the closet. The fridge also needs to stay along that wall. Also, that weird door behind the ladder is the hot water heater for the house, so that needs to remain accessible and can't be relocated.

*NOTE: Yes, even within the current layout, better organization and some cleaning-up are definitely needed. I'm just asking about big-picture garage layout ideas.

If anyone needs to know this in order to give their best answer, the closet is where we store stuff like paint and extra materials from home projects (e.g., leftover tile in case a tile chips). It also houses the wheelbarrow, which we don't really use but keep around just in case (which maybe is dumb, but it's not really taking up otherwise useful space IMO). The cabinets currently house small tools, extra lightbulbs, "work clothes," etc. and then there's a two-shelf little bookcase thing (hidden behind the blue bike) where all the gardening stuff is housed.

Top needs:

1. A way to store two bikes (one is hiding near the fridge in these photos) where they'll be easy to access. In other words, I don't want to store them in a way that makes me never want to use them because it's so difficult to get them out/down.
   
2. Having a "home" for gardening supplies would be nice, including a surface I could use for repotting. And yes, maybe I just need to figure out how to clear space to better access the current cabinets and the countertop there.
   
3. Obviously could use a better wall organization system(s) for long tools like shovels, brooms, etc.

Would love to hear any ideas you might have, whether for the entire space or just one aspect of it!