DIY - Organising Tools & Building Materials at home - BEGINNER

A few tips (this is for cleaning up building materials that are sitting around your house):

• Rusted inventory is not good - screws, nails, drill bits etc ... on building sites screws that have gone in once and are taken out are thrown -by the time laborers are around anyway!
  

• Keep long, large, thick bits of ply, fibro, wood - throw out small, thin bits 

• Old cloths that are oily, torn too dusty etc ... can be thrown out and replaced with proper cloths later
  

• Keep straight edges and flat surfaces - throw out warped edges and uneven surfaces 

• Non-painted and non-treated wood can be used for firewood

• Expired paint might be able to be used especially if it colour matches with existing walls - really shake it, strain it, watch for lumps, use thinner etc ..

• Bricks and tiles which have bits of set concrete on them should be thrown as it is so difficult to get rid of set concrete vs. grabbing leftover bricks and tiles from another building site
• Use a hammer to smash them so they don't wind up making holes in your bin

• Store heavier items such as paint and fuel towards the bottom to save your shelves from warping

• You can store garden items on grass (in suitable outdoor containers) rather than keeping them in limited under cover area or worse still inside the house 

• Non - working appliances may be revived with minor repairs by a Test & Tag place but they can only repair a broken or frayed chord -  nothing with the actual appliance itself!

• Electrical appliances, extension chord, power boards etc ... if they are to survive outside the house need to be ruggerised -they are then tested and tagged - if they have become damaged not much point holding onto them! 
  

• Be wary of storing 'double' packaging e.g. paint cans which are undercover generally do not need to be also stored in a box

 

 

Cleaning up creates space;

1. Get rid of excess leaves, mulch, soil etc ... and having them use up precious covered storage space
2. After having cleaned up as above do sweep out of all dust, stones, remove cobwebs with a broom, etc ... 
3. Due to the large amounts of space building materials take up the volumes that get thrown out make household waste look insignificant ... you can save a bit of $$$ on household trips to the tip if you throw out some of your (dry) household waste when you start doing a building project!