Why do so many seem to hate pegboard?

[oldtimehockey]

I had become owner of some pegboard when we moved into our house and it seems to have served me well. Why are so many against the stuff?

 

[justanengineer]

It leaves your tools out in the open to get covered in dust/****. It opens up potential for them to fall on fragile projects or body parts. Boxes/cabinets hold a heck of a lot more if you can deal with the depth. Some folks just dont care for the look. Personal prejudices otherwise?

Ive got some that was installed in the basement workshop which is where the home repair and woodworking tools are. It works fine for that, but I dont have much that needs hanging down there. OTOH, I wouldnt put it in the garage as space is too valuable and I need every cubic inch for my real hobbies/tools.

 

[oldtimehockey]

Thank you...I was beginning to feel bad about myself.

I just zap the dust with the air hose and make sure it is downwind from my beer(s).

 

[G_P]

To me it just seems like it takes up a massive amount of space for the amount of tools you can store on it. Also hanging anything heavy can cause the pegs to rip out and your tools come crashing down.

It probably works well for someone with few tools so they can keep them out in the open. But anyone with a decent amount of tools will have to cover a huge amount of wall space to hang everything up. I prefer boxes.

 

[mikegt4]

My Dad had his tools on pegboard when I was growing up. It seemed that every time that I grabbed a tool I pulled the hooks out of the board as well. I have hated pegboard ever since. I also don't like tools stored on the wall and out in the open (just my opinion).
Pegboard does have it's place, it makes nice ventilated cabinet door fronts.

 

[machine_punk]

If you like pegboard, I think that's great. Me personally, though, I cannot stand the stuff. I like the idea of it (the ability to reconfigure your tool storage as needed), but the actual practice of it stinks. I even prefer to have my tools out in the open, on the wall, in plain sight--instead of hidden in a drawer somewhere. I am a very visual person and I like to see my options as I work.

However, those little hooks and things you put in the board never stay in place and often come off when you grab the tool. Some of those brackets are downright goofy (the screwdriver holder with two loops per screwdriver). Other things just don't fit well on the hooks you can buy. And, to me, it just looks messy.

I would much rather just put up a sheet of plywood and build individual holders for each tool (and I have done that for a much smaller tool collection than I currently have).

My current setup neatly sidesteps the shortcomings, while providing the benefits. I have a huge frame on the wall, which holds individual tool boards. These tool boards can hold anywhere from one tool (a pneumatic rivet squeezer) to a whole set of tools in 'one size.' (everything you need to prep for and insert 'dash 5' solid rivets.) Each of these tool boards can be fastened to the framework in any order. Read my main thread for a LOT more details on the system.

But, if you like pegboard, that is fine with me...it just doesn't meet my requirements for tool storage.

Kev

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

I'm not afraid of anyone seeing my tools, my workshop is next to my detached garage and 100 ft from the curb behind my house.

I dust my entire shop out with a Toro blower every few days and I'm smart enough NOT to put stuff on hooks that is so heavy it'll rip out holes. Last, there are hooks made to stay put if its THAT big a deal. I'm just mindful enough not to yank them off the pegboard and patient enough that if a hook falls off, I just put it back. No drama.

Thank you...I was beginning to feel bad about myself.

I just zap the dust with the air hose and make sure it is downwind from my beer(s).

Why feel bad about yourself? If you like your pegboard everyone else can go screw!

 

[nolimits76]

I'm not afraid of anyone seeing my tools, my workshop is next to my detached garage and 100 ft from the curb behind my house.

I dust my entire shop out with a Toro blower every few days and I'm smart enough NOT to put stuff on hooks that is so heavy it'll rip out holes. Last, there are hooks made to stay put if its THAT big a deal. I'm just mindful enough not to yank them off the pegboard and patient enough that if a hook falls off, I just put it back. No drama.

LOL, finally a voice of reason. While it's not my preference, it surely hasn't caused me any real grief. I think it mostly depends how you like to store stuff. I've never seen anyone literally hang their entire tool collection, usually just frequent items that may not fit well in a tool drawer.

I am getting ready to build a bench and thought about placing some pegboard on the ends of it. One it will close it in which is what I want since the bench depth will be deeper than the tool boxes I am housing underneath it. Second, it gives me somewhere to put tape, tie down straps, etc that I don't want to place in a drawer.

 

[92GreenYJ]

I personally love the stuff. Granted I don't hang a lot of tools from it, but I used 8 full sheets of the stuff building out my workbench and garage. I love the versatility for hanging anything and everything from it.

And I hung more than that on the other two sections of work bench and some more over the parts washer to hang my brushes and cleaning supplies from

 

[Richard D]

I hate pegboard too. I could give two shits about my garage being pretty; it's a place to work. I hang stuff everywhere that I don't have cabinets or shelves. I just have my walls finished with OSB, and use drywall screws top hang stuff. OSB is cheaper than pegboard, and drywall screws are a HELL of a lot cheaper than those hooks. Plus I can put the screws EXACTLY where I want them, not limited by a 2" grid.

 

[Hephaestus29]

I have it in my garage, I guess I'm kind of middle of the road about it. I don't hang many tools on it, but I do hang other things on it that wouldn't normally go in a tool box. Odd shaped things, or things too big for a tool box.

 

[98TJ]

I don't mind it, but I only use it for things that are likely for my wife/kids/friends to be reaching for when they're here.

At a glance I can see if everything has been returned.

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[ATC]

I don't like it for two reasons:

1) With the amount of tools I have, it would take several sheets to hang up everything...taking up very valuable wall real estate. I would also be leaning over whatever is on the floor next to the wall trying to reach my tools.

2) I really hate having my tools out on display for everyone who enters my garage to see (or peek in the window). I hate people knowing what I have...because they might want it worse than I do one day...

 

[bobcatdan]

There have been hundred of tools hanging on pegboard at the home shop for 30 years, no 24" pipe wrenches or puller has ever fallen from it.

 

[98TJ]

I don't like it for two reasons:

1) With the amount of tools I have, it would take several sheets to hang up everything...taking up very valuable wall real estate. I would also be leaning over whatever is on the floor next to the wall trying to reach my tools.

2) I really hate having my tools out on display for everyone who enters my garage to see (or peek in the window). I hate people knowing what I have...because they might want it worse than I do one day...

1) You don't "hang everything up"

2) Does your wife wear a burka?

 

[deepsea]

Like all good things in life pegboard has its ups and downs. Commonly used tools like mallets and clamps get used so often that they end up getting placed onto specially made racks designed for just that purpose. If youre sick of those flimsy little hooks and cheap garbage pegboard stop buying flimsy hooks and garbage pegboard. $1500 Snap-On tool chest vs $75 cheaply made pegboard I can see where this going. Know that small behind your router table with the Busch beer poster? You could store your bits right there along with your jigs. Try doing that with with your 72" tall super duper tool box. Am I suggesting you store your 1/4" sockets all over pegboard? Negative Ghostrider that pattern is full.

 

[jshillin]

I have 2 small 2'x2' Sections of metal peg board on opposite sides of my garage. I hang stuff that really should be hung up on it. I hang up some detailing brushes, extension cords, carpenter hammers, level, etc. The stuff I use frequently is up front by the door and the stuff I rarely use it in the back out of the way.

 

[TheShrine]

OP.....ask any set of haters to step up and they will!

Please don't ask about OSB, PVC air lines, affordable floor epoxy or anything to do with Harbor Freight or.......!

BTW, I have peg board w/ the appropriate peg locks attached to OSB with some Harbor Freight tools hanging on it right over 2 part epoxy and have had no problems. The idea of a dusty tool doesn't bother me. If I have a tool that's "dusty" that's exactly the one I want on my peg board! That particular tool is dusty because I rarely use it and I want it out in the open, on peg board, easy for my old eyes to see/find it when I do need it. If it is in one of the 3 covered dustless tool boxes or one of the many dustless drawers in my shop .....well you get my point.

Never realized there was such immanent drama in The Shrine!?

Now, excuse me, I'm going to go borrow my wife's feather duster before she wakes up.

 

[ddawg16]

All those holes in it reminds me of bullet holes which ends up triggering and old memory which causes me to go pull out my guns and start cleaning them which brings back an older and even darker memory which causes me to break out my ninja outfit which makes me go do things that ends up in the news.....









disclaimer....the above is all in jest...except for......................

I just don't like all those holes.....bugs me.....which cause me.......

 

[Hencini]

My garage has a small attached shop (11x13?) with pegboard on a couple walls. I use it to hang the yard tools-- stuff that's too bulky to fit easily in my tool chests or the drawers in my "workbench" (bank of cabinets from a science lab). It works well enough.

 

[CARS]

It has its place.

At work we use it to hold all our "small part" jigs. But it's not your normal board, it's made of metal about 1/4" thick.

Biggest complaint I have. Those stupid hooks come out when I remove a jig.

 

[Outlander]

I found piece left over from PO. I stuck it up behind a bench and hung a few things from it. No drama, my chinese tools are stored properly in my chinese toolbox. Phew.

 

[great white tj]

I am going back to bed...

 

[oldtimehockey]

Please see the attachment. I'd like to graduate to this setup someday. Looks like maybe 3/4 inch plywood to me, eh?

 

[rednecklimo85]

I think it has its place. My basement had a wall of it above work bench's when I bought the house and it works well since I only have a small second tool box down there. There was a spare sheet in the shed that I hung up and it's nice for hanging stuff like small engine fuel filters and other odd ball parts. IMHO it makes sense when there is a lack of floor space. In my case I've got a sub compact tractor and a lawn mower parked side by side so I need the floor space.

 

[jhall0712]

OP.....ask any set of haters to step up and they will!

Please don't ask about OSB, PVC air lines, affordable floor epoxy or anything to do with Harbor Freight or.......!

BTW, I have peg board w/ the appropriate peg locks attached to OSB with some Harbor Freight tools hanging on it right over 2 part epoxy and have had no problems. The idea of a dusty tool doesn't bother me. If I have a tool that's "dusty" that's exactly the one I want on my peg board! That particular tool is dusty because I rarely use it and I want it out in the open, on peg board, easy for my old eyes to see/find it when I do need it. If it is in one of the 3 covered dustless tool boxes or one of the many dustless drawers in my shop .....well you get my point.

Never realized there was such immanent drama in The Shrine!?

Now, excuse me, I'm going to go borrow my wife's feather duster before she wakes up.

I dunno man, I've been on here only a few weeks but there looks to be a surprising amount of love for HF. Especially for some of their tool cabinets.

I'll be honest, I have a small amount of pegboard in my shop, and I just spent $100 at HF today.

 

[NUTTSGT]

I have some on one side of the garage where I do the woodworking and home stuff. I hang the odd tools on it, while tool box resides on the other side with the mechanical stuff inside.

 

[Jack Olsen]

Hard to see why it would matter that there are some who like it and some who don't. It seems it either fits your needs or it doesn't. Is there some benefit to our reaching any kind of consensus beyond that?

The hardware-store hooks are pretty terrible, but there are hook options that will not come loose. It will not keep your tools clean, and it will not keep other guys from borrowing your tools. But it does make it easy to get to the tools you use the most.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Hard to see why it would matter that there are some who like it and some who don't. It seems it either fits your needs or it doesn't. Is there some benefit to our reaching any kind of consensus beyond that?

The hardware-store hooks are pretty terrible, but there are hook options that will not come loose. It will not keep your tools clean, and it will not keep other guys from borrowing your tools. But it does make it easy to get to the tools you use the most.

I have got to agree!

 

[great white tj]

Hard to see why it would matter that there are some who like it and some who don't. It seems it either fits your needs or it doesn't. Is there some benefit to our reaching any kind of consensus beyond that?

The hardware-store hooks are pretty terrible, but there are hook options that will not come loose. It will not keep your tools clean, and it will not keep other guys from borrowing your tools. But it does make it easy to get to the tools you use the most.

I can get back up now and go burn some rods....

 

[crewchief888]

when i was growing up, my parents bought their first house, and dad had a garage built.

he never had a "real" toobox, just one old SK hand box that held all his hand tools.

damn ugly *** pegboard to hang all his hand tools, seems like every time you touched one thing, something else fell off. the couple of corded power tools he had were on a flimsy shelf under the workbench.
over the workbench were a bunch of glass babyfood jars full of misc nails and screws.

close the garage door too hard? you'd hear wrenches and sockets hitting the floor..

i really hated that garage.

after he passed away, and my mom remarried, seemed like stuff started disappearing.
i bought a set of kennedy mechanics boxes soon after that, and locked everything up.

 

[ARCTIC_RAGTOP]

I like mine. I also have a toolbox for most of my tools, but I keep a selection of frequently used tools out for easy accessibility. I think Jack is right. Why does it matter if some like it an others don't. I thought it fit well for my needs so I put one up

 

[ScurvyPete]

I personally love the stuff. Granted I don't hang a lot of tools from it, but I used 8 full sheets of the stuff building out my workbench and garage. I love the versatility for hanging anything and everything from it.

Hell yeah. I don't use it for my wrenches and stuff, but I do use it for my reloading bench too.

 

[MadMark]

Isn't there a way to energize the pegboard hooks to discourage unauthorized borrowing

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Apparently the subject of pegboard is quickly approaching the volatility of PVC for compressed air.

What's the big *** deal guys? If you don't like it just DON'T USE IT,

 

[great white tj]

Apparently the subject of pegboard is quickly approaching the volatility of PVC for compressed air.

What's the big *** deal guys? If you don't like it just DON'T USE IT,

 

[crewchief888]

Hell yeah. I don't use it for my wrenches and stuff, but I do use it for my reloading bench too.

nice clean set up

 

[oilfieldtrash4]

Ran out of room in the tool boxes. So it was either $40 on pegboard or minimum $400 for a decent tool box. I hung some pegboard.

 

[pepi]

I know some are ape **** over this stuff not a fan. I do not see any advantage when it comes to locating a tool. Fishing around a drawer is much easier when collecting the tools needed for a job. From a peg board your like all over the place gathering what you need. Trying to hang em back on the hook dealies is a hassle I can live without.

Takes up a lot of wall space, makes them look like there are more there than are actually there. The biggest problem with the peg board. Sure does make it hard to roll your tools from one garage to the other, push my box over got everything right there.

But hey if someone likes it fine by me, they will not have to worry about me buying up the pegboard supply.

 

[Haveblue]

I think its a matter of circumstance..and security. When I think of pegboard, I think of it in a small garden shed that can be locked. Its a great way to have everything you need at your fingertips, and tell if a tool is missing. In a pro shop, or garage, its better IMO to have the security of toolboxes...even though most techs I know dont lock them. Come in during my lunch hour, and you will find my toolboxes locked. This is small town KS, but its funny how many tools used to come up missing....untill I started the "lockdown" I havent lost a tool since I started locking my **** down if im away for any amount of time.