If you are a real boss in your home, then you have already faced the problem of organizing the storage of your building tool more than once. After all, carefully laid out screwdrivers, hammers, self-tapping screws and nails on drawer shelves are not only beautiful, but also significant savings in the space of the cabinet, pantry, garage and time savings in finding the right building tool. Therefore, in our article we will talk about what a tool box is, how to choose it correctly, or even make a tool box with your own hands.

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1. Toolbox: what is it
2. Tool box: types video
3. Tool box: review of popular brands video video video video video video
4. DIY tool box video

Toolbox: what is it

Toolbox    this is not a whim of a modern man, but a real visiting card of the owner of the house, whose hands are growing from the right place. That is why, at the moment, the box for storing tools is the most popular gift among women for their husband, father or adult son.

What is, in general, a tool storage box?

This capacity is a box equipped with various compartments, inserts and openings for storage and fastening of various kinds of tools, with a good convenient handle.

The functions of the tool box are as follows:

- organization of space: everything is laid out strictly in their places, in special box compartments, niches.

- storage:the building tools arranged in a drawer in a drawer take up little space, and the drawer itself, having a compact, regular geometric shape (most often rectangular), fits well on any shelf.

- transportation:   thanks to the presence of convenient handles, additional belts, and possibly in professional versions, and shipping wheels, tool boxes, with tools inside, it is convenient to move, both around the house and outside.

Tool box: types

Tool boxes come in various forms.

- by the method of accessing the tool, there are:

• Tool boxes open typemore reminiscent of a bag-bag. Access to the tool in such boxes is quick, but the transportation and storage system is not quite perfect: everything can scatter at any time if the box accidentally capsize. Yes, and the safety of the instrument when stored in such a box will need to be taken care of additionally (keep it out of the reach of strangers, locked up).

• Tool boxes closed type: have a tight-fitting lid. At the same time, the box can be closed both on metal latches, and on a padlock.

- according to the type of materials used for their production:

• Metal: metal tool box: it is, of course, very durable, but due to the weight of the metal and the tool inside the box it cannot be large and roomy.

• Plastic:   The plastic tool box is the most common today. It is made of impact-resistant plastic, so it is lightweight, of various sizes, but able to fit a rather heavy tool.

• Metal-plastic galvanized:boxes combining the advantages of both materials: durable and roomy, but not heavy. Their cost may exceed 150, and sometimes 500u.u, but these are professional tool boxes, so they are worth it.

- by the method of packaging and use:

• Professional:most often these are entire expensive systems for storing and transporting the tool.

• Unprofessional (household use):   boxes equipped with numerous inserts and niches, most often in the form of compact, although not always small, cases / bag boxes. By the way, this type of tool box is also actively used by professional builders.

Tool box: review of popular brands

Due to the fact that people began to take care of the tool more carefully, and to organize the workspace and places of storage of any things, in a more organized way, tool storage boxes began to be in great demand, despite their fairly decent cost (very cheap tool boxes are most likely such the same cheap plastic used for their production, which does not last long, and if it is a popular brand for ridiculous money, it’s definitely a fake, which will also quickly fail during operation). Therefore, you need to buy tool storage boxes in specialized construction stores, and which one is better to choose will tell you our review of tool storage boxes of various manufacturers:

- stanley    A company from the USA with more than a century of history is one of the most popular brands of hand and measuring tools among professionals, which is why stanley tool box is a good and right choice, although not the cheapest one.

And it is precisely because of the popularity of this brand that we will take it as a standard for comparing the remaining tool boxes of various companies.

- fit- A fairly young company manufacturing manual and measuring tools, including boxes for storing tools. It is often said that the tool box fit is a cheap tanley option. On the one hand, yes: fit is an American company, and the color and appearance of fit drawers are very similar to similar models of tanley tool storage boxes, but the quality, like the price, vary. Fit is a cheaper and less high-quality option, according to professionals, but, for home use - it is quite suitable.

- keter, almost the same as stanley, by its existence, the company is originally from Israel, but unlike Stanley it is less popular in the CIS. Therefore, keter tool box with quite acceptable, even, professional quality

and a wide selection of destination and appearance of these tool boxes from professionally

to, practically, a household, household and cottage box for everything.

- tayg  a Spanish company with a history of more than half a century, but not in the development of hand tools, but in the initial development and implementation of products from various kinds of polymers and plastics. tayg tool box is one of the brainchild of this brand: shock-and frost-resistant plastic allows you to use tool boxes of this brand in extreme conditions or as a hunting or fishing equipment.

- Kroft German brand, characterized by good quality tool kits in cases, but quite simple and cheap tool boxes: plastic, with plastic latches.

DIY tool box

If you couldn’t decide on the price and quality, then a do-it-yourself tool box is also a very realistic option, especially since you can make it not only in the classic version, but quite competitive, like this

The main thing is availability:

- the material from which the tool box will be made: plywood or chipboard,

- Accessories: handles, latches, hinges, etc.

- the right hands, great desire and imagination!