OH Garage door storage

[Rick Moyer]

Show me or tell me what you store above the garage door(s). I have about two feet or so of height and want to utilize the space without jeopardizing the door or hardware. The ceiling is drywall above the doors but I might add a layer of OSB. If you have weighty things there, how do you support them adequately?

[Art Mulder]

Left Side:
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Right Side:
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My shop is in the basement, so this is just random, non-heavy, garage storage.

Shovels, sleds, and so on go up there in the summer.
tables, chairs, and outdoor toys go up there in winter.

[Dewey Torres]

I have 2 things:

1) I have an extension to my shop (garage) and I utilized that unused space with 3/4" OSB and some 2x4s. (pic1)

2) I installed a standard overhead storage kit that i bought at the BORG for $60. It went together easy and hold lots of weight but must be lag bolted into overhead studs. (pic 2)

[Maurice Ungaro]

I thought about this and installed it during construction, but if you have any head room, it can be retro-fitted. I used two LVL beams (lam-beams) sandwiched together to make one super strong span. Decked it with OSB.

[Eric DeSilva]

In my old place, I did basically what Art did, except I bolted the one end of the frame to the studs and hung the other ends from light chain attached to hooks screwed into the studs...

In my present place, the garage is too full of crap to have enough room to build storage.

[Duane McGuire]

In my present place, the garage is too full of crap to have enough room to build storage.

I think you just summed up my life.

[glenn bradley]

3/8" ply laid across the ceiling joists; camping gear, empty blown plastic tools cases, electrical parts overflow and my spare fluorescent lamps.