Good Morning. Surfave Of Garage Storage

[ukanonymous]

Hello everyone again :) what wood would you reccomend for the top of garage storage. It will be 80cm high used probably for attach a vice and other wood work type stuff. We really have no idea. It would be good if it looked nice too.

[waterboatman]

Half inch minimum. preferably 1 inch.

[ukanonymous]

Of what plywood? Or mdf?

[bednobs]

I don't think plywood comes in 1 inch thick
If you are actually going to do woodwork on it I would not receomned either ply or MDF

[ukanonymous]

Ok what would you recomend please?

[Zacs-Master]

You seem to be taking on a lot of projects which are, to be frank, a bit beyond your 'skill set'.

[emmie]

boaty won't be on till tomorrow, sure others can help though

[Chipchopper]

I would go for pre-used scaffold boards on top of metal galvanized framework. Shouldn't cost much more than £80. 00 and should last a lif-time.

[alavahalf]

The scaffold boards are a good idea.. I can assure you that plywood comes an inch thick as I have sawn across a sheet of 30mm ply this morning (My elbow hurts).You could top the boards with 18 or 25mm ply, screw it down into the boards to stabilise it and if you had a sheet of steel as Chip says.. You would have a bench for life.
For doing woodwork you would always want a wood surface to work on. You wouldn't want your saw or chisels catching steel.
As you are feeling adventurous.. I am going to ask you to look up 'pocket screws and guide' and think about the scaffold boards. It will look really good.

[The Builder]

I made one of my benches using floor joists (9"x2") (225mmx47mm).
A piece of timber across each end to bind them together, then topped with "shuttering ply" 12mm is fine.
But... I do use these benches with a carpenter's vice and an engineer's vice. So they have to be solid.

For just the carpenter's vice, scaffold boards are a great idea. (A friend of mine used them to make doors for his barn conversion.)
Scaffold boards are around 30mm thick. That's plenty for your uses.
I say "shuttering ply" because proper ply is a bit posh for whacking about on. There's quite a price difference.
You will probably need a builders' merchants for shuttering though.

[Togo]

When I made my bench I used a firedoor blank. It was a damaged one from the local supplier and I cut down the length which lost the (damaged bit) and moved the bottom stile into the length that I used. It is a 2ft 3in width and is s superb top being smooth and dead flat. I have bsb protected power and a vice bolted through it. Top job.

https://www.howdens.com/joinery/doors/howdens-solid-core-blank-plywood-flush-fd60-fire-door-obj-sku-family-25409976