Strong wall mounted workbench?

[AceofSpad3s]

Hello, I am moving my shop into my basement and I want to build a bench on the back wall, the wall is 9 feet long but I am going to make it 8ft by 2ft by 36in. I want it to be mounted into the wall to cut down on the amount of lumber I need since I want to make it out of cull lumber to keep it cheap. What I got down so far is that I am going to take a sheet of osb and rip in in half and take a tube of liquid nails (wood glue is expensive yo) and screw them together to make a 1 inch top, and then I will throw some underlayment on top since it is smooth. I would to have a shelve on the bottom since I got another sheet of osb to use for that purpose. Info about reg benches is a dime a dozen but I cannot find alot of info about benches build into walls.

 

[soapii]

I built my entire bench into the wall. I used 3/4" oak and routed the edges. I put two 3.5" long screws into each wall stud, it is very sturdy.

--Joe

 

[wildstyle]

Mine is also built to the wall. I used a 2x4 ledger and built off of that.

 

[Kaizen]

ace I don't get your dimensions. 2 feet deep? 36 inches ?
hoping you have walls as shown above with 2x studs
I'd go 3 foot deep and use the 1 foot leftovers for your 2nd layer under the top. I'd also try and just use an AC ply 3/4 inch so maybe 3 sheets. Instead of legs you can also put 45 degree supports from the lower wall to front of bench. I find it easier to put a level ledger on the wall to attach the top to and a level one down below for these supports esp if floor is not even

 

[kd3pc]

Mine is like wildstyle, bolted a 2x4 ledger to the studs, and then laid a CL solid core door on that. Craigslist door was cheaper than OSB and glue and it took polyurethane stain and sealer really well. I left the edges pretty square.

It works very well. And was all second hand lumber. I have just under $35 in it total.

 

[Sleepr66]

ace I don't get your dimensions. 2 feet deep? 36 inches ?
hoping you have walls as shown above with 2x studs

I think he was saying that he wanted the bench top to be 2 feet deep and 36" high . . .

 

[Cyberbear]

I suppose OSB is a reasonable material for a bench top, but all OSB I've worked with was too rough and splintery for my application, didn't care for the glue smell and got tired of the fingernail splinters each time I picked up a tool. It's going to add more to the cost but a layer of hardboard over the OSB might be good.

 

[wildstyle]

Ya mine has a doubled up layer of 5/8" ply and today I got 16 gauge sheet metal bent up to top it off. Attached with counter sunk screws

 

[AceofSpad3s]

I suppose OSB is a reasonable material for a bench top, but all OSB I've worked with was too rough and splintery for my application, didn't care for the glue smell and got tired of the fingernail splinters each time I picked up a tool. It's going to add more to the cost but a layer of hardboard over the OSB might be good.

I said I was going to put underlayment over it, I got 2 1/8inch 4x8 sheets for $3 each as cull, smooth enough to use as the top to go over the osb.

 

[aka rotten]

Built mine from 1 3\4 lamanated oak flooring that i got from truck body place that gave it to me.Appearently it was 2nds so they said.Made mine 10 ft long with heavy duty 4in piano hinge down rear of it so i can accually fold intire bench into wall.Works great but never use fold down as it usually packed with junk.Paul