home interior shops
continuous improvement [is] better than delayed perfection "make the workshop your world like the world like see your workshop " that's a quote mark twain said several years ago, and i could not agree with this more. this is my third [shope] third yes, my third shope and so far i've been in here a little more than [year] and have moved stuff around several times you if you've watched me my videos previously you probably see that it looks a little bit different now than what it did in the last video but
anyway the point for me to move a bunch of stuff or move the tool layout around is to gain a little bit of an edge [here] gained a little bit of efficiency here, and because everything's on wheels and on casters it's really not much effort at all to move stuff around so it's not like i'm making major major shop changes just trying to continuously improve the efficiency and the workflow so today. i want to walk you [through] five things that i found to increase my shop efficiency and productivity so the first one i've already mentioned just a second ago and it's probably the most beneficial [for] anybody in a non-professional shop environment
and that is to keep everything mobile keep everything on mobile basis or on casters and that'll allow you to obviously change things as needed as your needs as your shop needs change and also, if you don't have a dedicated space to where you can leave your tools out at all times it's obviously beneficial to be able to move all the tools away so you could use [that] shop space as it's otherwise needed the second thing is to have all of your commonly used items open and visible and preferably within an arm's reach of where they're going to be used, so basically any working environment has multiple layers of storage and you utilize that in a way that it's most convenient to how you work items that aren't
used often it's [ok] if they're a little inconvenient to access so all of my lower drawer storage here on my miter saw station isn't incredibly convenient because you have to bend so far over so that is [long-term] storage? advancing from that is my waist-high doors that are easily accessible and you can easily see down inside them and more convenient than that is all of my stuff that i use all the time that is open and visit to use the miter saw as an example what are you most commonly going to be using at the miter saw odds are a tape measure of some kind a pencil? safety glasses hearing protection [maybe] you will use a square for your reference lines
everything is right here within an arm's reach of where you're going to be working and something that i've really found to be beneficial to have right next to my result is some type [of] setup to where you [can] clip or hold your cut list as you're working that way it's all right here as you are working not to go hunt it down and you can just go through all of your cuts as needed the vast majority of us use a drill and a driver in our workflow, so keeping them readily available is quite obvious but what do you use with the drill and driver most often and keep that? right next to the actual drill and driver so as i grab [my] driver i've got access [to] one of the most commonly used bits that i use and as i grab one i can grab the other and go as needed and as i return them i can return them both to the
same spot this remains empty, and i can always grab the one that i need as i'm grabbing this now the drill [i] almost always use a countersink bit with my drill i barely ever use an actual drill bit so what i've got here is to again readily accessible to your drill to different countersink bits i always keep two because if you only have one then that one is going to break when you need it so it's good to have a backup and at that point if you're going to have [two] you might as well have them set to two different depths so you never have to adjust these really finicky [allen] screws that are in these drill bits, so i pretty much always have one set to a half inch or 3/4 inch material and then one for about one and a half inch material
and i can always grab one as i'm grabbing the drill, and it's just very convenient the third thing [is] something i just realized and seems to be working out really well and that is to group tools to overlap the dead space pretty much every single tool has some type of dead space on the side in which you are not using that tool so the table saw you're not using the right side of the table saw far right because there's always going to be the fence in the way, so you're not really using space it's kind of dead space on the bandsaw you're pretty much pushing stuff through the front side or pulling stuff through the back side maybe standing off [to] the right side you're never using this back left space same thing with a player
i'm feeding stuff through on the infeed side pulling stuff out on the [outfeed] side and standing to this side to access the height adjustment [i'm] never using this side of the player the area to the right of the table saw was never really assembly or working space anyway, so overlapping this dead tool space allows me to keep my planer out at all times which this is a 92 pound planer so i've realized that picking up every time i need to use it is really become a chore so having it out is very beneficial the bandsaw is not interfering with the maximum capacity of the table saw because the bottom door is inset
maybe a half inch or so from the maximum capacity of the table saw so there's no interference with any one of these tools and this is also or moving the bandsaw over here is also cleared up an entire wall for me to add another tool to the shop number four is to go vertical and stack your tools whenever possible this is a shot back and cyclone setup with all the hoses and attachments taking up just about as much space on the floor as the shot back itself just a little bit more than that and it doesn't necessarily have to be [a] system like this you can have [a] flip-top system so i've seen a lot of [flip-top] carts that had the have a miter saw mounted on top and then the top flips over and you have a bench top planer mounted
on the other side so you have two tools one footprint taking up a lot less [space] so lastly utilize high wall storage space for items that you can't necessarily throw away, but don't need to access anytime soon so this shop is actually a two-car garage attached to my house so what ends up [happening] is a lot of the stuff that we don't need all the time like the christmas tree or a cooler and some lawn chairs [it] ends up getting in my shop, and i don't want that to be taking up working space so having a spot to put this put the items up and out of the way is very beneficial [i've] got a full length shelf on my back wall, and i've actually made above my garage door
some similar shelves as well, so utilizing wasted space is very beneficial especially when you go vertical with it [i] know there's a lot of you out there that already have some workflow efficiency or storage solution tips and tricks that you like to share so please leave them in the [comment] section [below] so all of us can learn from that hopefully, you're able to get something out of this video, and i'm about to start in on the next dimensional lumber furniture project so i'll talk to you later. [thanks] for watching