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If you are looking for an easy carpentry project and a way to organize your garage, pegboard just may be the ticket. Pegboard is simply hardboard with holes in it so you can place hangers and hooks to hold things off of the floor. If you were to mount the pegboard directly to the garage wall, you wouldn’t be able to place any hooks into it, so you have to create a small gap in between the pegboard and the wall. Furring strips are perfect for this.

You can use 1”x2” strips of wood and build a frame around the perimeter of the pegboard. You will also need to add some furring strips inside the frame to stiffen up the pegboard.

Once you have the pegboard attached to the frame and supports, you can locate the studs on the wall. It is imperative that you anchor the pegboard through the furring strips and into the wall studs. Once you locate the studs, drive screws through both the pegboard and furring strips, and into the studs. This assembly will support the weight of itself and everything you hang on the pegboard, so it has to be secure.

Once the pegboard is secure, you can add whatever hooks and pegs you choose. For heavier objects, locate them on the pegboard near where the pegboard is attached to the studs. The support in these locations will be better than in a location where there are no studs.