Just moved house and have a new garage to play with. Its a “wide” single garage, with about 4′ either side of the main door. Its a got a normal door and window on one side, and I want to build a bench under the window. I’ve got about 6′ or so length to use to avoid clashing with the ladder/stair to the loft-space above.

Needs to be sturdy enough to cope with a good size vice, and to support my Axminster mini-milling machine.

So, what have you built?

So many threads, so little time. Try using search.

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/ideal-workbench-depth-material

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/whats-hot-in-work-benches

I know. I’m lazy.

Haven’t got round to it yet, but I’m planning to build a couple of fold-down ones like these: http://www.12-gaugegarage.com/blog-11/index.html

fold-down benches look neat, I need a fixed one first though.

I built a workbench about twenty years ago using the techniques in these plans: rock-solid-plywood-bench. I used 3 layers of 4×1 pine to create the frame rather than plywood and used a solid core fire door for the benchtop. It’s still rock solid despite having taken a lot of punishment.

I went to B&Q and bought a kitchen work top for £30 and then fitted it to the wall with a few 4×2 battens and two supports under the front.
My work top is 2.5m wide across the end of my garage.

Will hold a vice and most other stuff.

Certainly sufficient for my cycle tinkering.

Cheap tool chest , Fence posts, 18mm ply and recyCled laminate flooring and decking.

Vice’ check , bench grinder , heavier than hell pillar drill , workbench doesnt care

six foot long you say? I’d be looking at a solid core flush door as the workstop. Possibly a fire door – will be stronger and way cheaper than the equivalent worktop.

My effort

Fence post for legs, 40 x 100mm pressure treated wood for the frame 38mm CLS timber for the bench top.

I’ve also fitted a small vice.

The whole thing is probably 5 times stronger than it needs to be but that means I wont break it!

a bit of a mess as ive been working today…. i have a bench on both sides of my garage, one is about 3 meters long the other about 2. The newer of the 2 (the bench on the left side) cost me around £25 to build
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Click for more pics. It was built in my old house and was then moved (I had to dismantle it to get it out of the cellar) to my current house, where it lives in the garage.