Garage Workshop Design & Planning Advice

The starting point to any changes within your garage workshop is having garage equipment experts actually visit your workshop. Ensure these are actual project teams and/or engineers who have the knowledge and experience to provide you with a recommendation that relevant to you, rather than just sales people with a sales spiel to share. Any reputable company will visit your site free of charge, to understand your requirements and expectations. Site visits reveal how the workshop operates for technicians and provides an opportunity to accurately measure the dimensions of the space to feed this back into the design teams.

Far too often the emphasis of updating your garage workshop can be focused too heavily on the equipment choice, which is important, but sometimes overlooked but crucial part of the journey is design. Whether you are looking to build a completely new garage, re-model your existing garage, add equipment or replace a single piece of equipment, it’s important to ensure these changes are visualised on a drawing. Workshop design teams with access to CAD software and 3D technology, have the ability to unlock the potential of your workshop space and maximise efficiencies within. It’s not uncommon to find by re-designing the workshop space you may be able to fit in another working bay, or dramatically improve the working area of existing bays just by the positioning equipment and ancillary items effectively.

Experts in this field can also advise and provide custom bespoke solutions which respond to your space requirements and needs, if they have their own fabrication shop. For example, benching alternatives, vertical hanging tool storage solutions, multipurpose reel posts. There’s likely to be many a time where workshop technicians / mechanics have said ‘wouldn’t it be great if we could have…’ Whilst there are many of the shelf solutions out there, going bespoke means its purpose built for your requirements.

Here at Straightset, we have 30 years’ experience in the design, supply and installation of garage equipment for car and commercial workshops. By choosing Straightset for your garage equipment needs, you not only get quality garage equipment that will stand the test of time, but you also have the peace of mind you are dealing with experts who have years of experience in installing equipment into your workshop which is fit for purpose. With access to a sophisticated workshop design department and knowledgeable sales teams who can visit your site, we can visualise your new equipment in situ and plan your installation with minimum disruption but maximum care. With our own onsite fabrication shop, we are able to offer our customers solutions where other companies have struggled.