Thread: under bench storage

as all are aware we need a lot more storage.
I had an old half height metal stationary cupboard sitting down the side of house storing crap. Binned with the crap and and pulled it down to the shed and thought mmm I could chop this down and fit it under the bench eh?
but what about all the other space along side?
I had one of those SS steel tool trolleys one gets from Bunnings..measured that up and it will fit if wheels are off..but still have vacant space..ahah another tool trolley will fit just nice
you can see the front of cupboard and how much I needed to chop so that it fitted under the bench...tool chests allready insitu
front was spot welded so I had to drill out to pull apart without damaging..rest of cupboard, sides and back was just bolted on.. sheet steel was around 1.4mm thick
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Although the gap next to legs is some 30mm, there are two front to back channels iether end ontop of the legs and wider than the legs which reduces the space available by some 40mm which just allows the three items just squeeze in leaving about 5-7 mm clearance from one end only so tight fit really...

now for some silver/chrome paint
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Nice work, we all need more storage.
You could have cut the door so the handle was higher up to save bending.

Thats the trouble with these steel cupboards. All that wasted space at the bottom. If you were really pushed for room (and possibly desperate - I have actually considered this myself, but not yet desperate enough) A drawer could be made to go into that wasted space. Would probably be a good idea to fabricate a frame to go around the hole you would cut in the front bottom panel. You wouldn't even really need to buy drawer slides. A couple of inline skate wheels on each side of the drawer, just sitting on the floor would work.
peter

Originally Posted by Dave J

Nice work, we all need more storage.
You could have cut the door so the handle was higher up to save bending.

I dont have to bend down at all dave...i use my foot..
But i have to bend down to get any as tuff out anyways so not a real problem