GARAGE ORGANIZATION USING UNISTRUT TROLLEY
Are you tired of never having room in your garage for all your tools? A sliding tool wall is a game changer that will replace those bulky, expensive toolboxes and will give you the space you’ve always wanted.
PARTS LIST
We’re tired of misplacing our tools or loosing them in an old medicine cabinet that we repurposed as a tool box.
So we got to thinking, what if we could leverage the vertical wall space in our garage? We could install ceiling mounted storage, but that wouldn’t be great for tool accessibility. But a sliding tool wall would give us double the hanging space for all our tools and would be a cool piece to show off. Now all we needed was the right parts to build it.
SLIDING TOOL WALL INSTRUCTIONS
1. Purchase three 4x8’ 3/4” plywood sheets from your local hardware store.
2. Mount two sheets directly horizontal to the existing garage wall if you don’t want to put a bunch of holes in existing drywall. Your third piece of plywood will be installed with some Unistruit and will operate like a sliding barn door.
3. Purchase a 1-5/8” 10ft piece of Unistrut, two Unistrut wheel bearing trollies, and some Unistrut holders.
4. Cut your plywood to the appropriate height and mount the two trollies to the top of your plywood using lag bolts. Make sure you have the right gap between your trolly slider wheels and the top of your plywood.
5. Then mount your Unistrut holders into a solid ceiling joist and slide your Unistrut into the holders.
6. Add accessories to your tool wall to hold your tools like packout cleats, magnetic holders, screw driver holders, and other types of tool support hangers.
7. Then take your plywood and slide its wheel bearings into the unistrut.
8. Install a unistrut bumper stop at the end of the unistrut to prevent the tool wall from sliding off the unistrut.
Overall the build is pretty simple and is something you can install within a few hours. We saved tons of space, money, and now have no problems finding our tools.
