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- Welcome to "Mother Daughter Projects."
I'm Steph, and this is Daniel.
He's a friend who's like a brother to me,
and for the longest time I've been giving him a hard time
for the wood pegboard here in his garage.
So I called my friends at Wall Control and I said,
"We need to take care of this.
Can we get some metal pegboard?"
And they said, "Of course."
So before we get that installed,
I actually wanna ask, you live here in Orlando, Florida,
where it is quite humid, especially right now here in June.
Does the humidity affect this pegboard at all?
Is that something that you've noticed?
- Well, it has grown to two to three times
its original size, if that gives you a hint.
The holes have gone bigger or smaller,
which makes mounting things very easy and yeah, flimsy.
I would just say flimsy.
It's like a soft pillow now at this point.
- So the pegs hold really well
into that kind of fluctuation?
- Sure.
- But I'm excited to get working on this because
I think metal pegboard is going to be the perfect solution
for the humidity we have here in Orlando, Florida.
All right, before we melt, let's get started.
First we removed the tools from the old pegboard
and emptied out this old cabinet
that Daniel wanted to remove.
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We moved his workbench
and then Daniel removed the old pegboard.
He installed this a few years ago
using scrap wood to back it.
- Ta-da! - Wow.
With the pegboard and frame removed,
we moved on to unboxing all the Wall Control.
He picked out dark green pegboard
and black hooks and hangers.
We did all of this the night
before we installed the Wall Control,
as I was in town for only a couple days,
and we had a limited time frame to work within.
Orlando was about four hours
from where Mom and I live in Tallahassee.
With all that prepped,
we were ready for the next day install.
I came over bright and early to get started.
We spent time making sure the first panel
was placed exactly right and level
as all the other panels will be based on this one.
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Are you ready, Daniel?
- I am. Come on, let's do this!
- The panels are 16 inches wide
and should be able to be placed on studs,
but based on where you place the panels
you might not always hit studs,
which is what happened in our case.
I had Daniel start by drilling 1/8-inch holes
as this is the size you need
if you're screwing straight into a stud.
When Daniel drilled a pilot hole and he didn't hit a stud,
he then drilled 1/4-inch holes for the wall anchor.
Wall anchors and screws are included with each panel.
I added anchors to the left side
and Daniel screwed the panels in.
I had to remind Daniel to not fully drive
each screw in until all six were in,
and then he could go back and tighten them all.
We continued that process for the rest of the panels.
Daniel marked the holes and then drilled
1/8-inch holes followed by 1/4-inch holes
if he needed to use wall anchors.
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Daniel's using an impact driver
which is not the wrong tool for this,
but you have to make sure you don't overtighten the screws
as this can distort the panel.
We used the magnetic level to make sure
we are lined up when placing the bottom two panels
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- Nice! - Success.
And the last step is the longest step,
but it's also the funnest step.
It's getting organized.
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We just started placing the Wall Control hooks
and for some of them, Daniel added some extra protection
with rubber stripping.
This can be found on wallcontrol.com
under Hooks & Accessories.
Scroll towards the bottom and add to cart.
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This is great for metal on metal connections.
Daniel added it to a couple hooks and added his clamps.
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Then we continued to organize
And it's done!
Daniel is so happy with this new garage organization.
The nice thing about the system is the pegs
can be moved and reorganized at any time.
In fact, after I left, Daniel had already
made some more adjustments, and I also foresee
some more Wall Control panels in his future.
- [Both] What we learned.
- All right, so my mom and I have installed
a bunch of Wall Control in the past,
so we've learned a lot during the installation,
but Daniel has never installed this
so I wanna find out what Daniel learned about this.
So what'd you learn?
- It was easy.
I mean the easiest thing I've installed
in the garage so far.
The panels were super, super easy to put up.
I don't know why I spent all that time on the pegboards.
It was honestly, I'd probably say, cheaper,
considering time involved, to install these guys here.
- So would you say you have a favorite hook?
- Yes, it would be, I love the accessory hook
just because it's very, very versatile.
- I also brought some of the rubber coating
that Wall Control sells that you can put
on some of the hooks, for things that are more delicate
or metal on metal.
So what'd you think about that?
- I love it.
It was something that you don't know
that you need until you've used it,
because it reduces the sound from vibration for tools.
It also helps prevent certain tools from sliding off hook.
I love this hook right here, but this is metal on metal,
so it's gonna slide real easily until we put
the rubber coating on it.
- So we will do that after we finish this,
'cause that's something we forgot to do.
So we might put in that footage right here of us
installing that on this last hook.
And a big thank you to Wall Control
for providing all the product we used and for the swag.
We do love us some good swag.
And also thank you for a great excuse
to come down here to see my bro,
and this was actually the first project
that we have done together.
I can't believe that
- Surprisingly enough. - Yes.
So this will definitely not be the last
now that I'm not embarrassed at his garage.
Yeah. You know.
- Oh, oh, now it's cool.
Let's thank Wall Control.
Before that, she's like, "No, no, no.
We're not doing anything in your garage."
- It's, yeah. - I understand.
This is a lot cooler looking
- And I've never worked with the green Wall Control panel,
so I'm pretty, pretty excited.
It looks really good in person.
All right, so if you wanna see more projects
from me and my mom, not Daniel,
but maybe more in the future,
you can find more of our projects
at motherdaughterprojects.com.
Come say bye.
Come on, come on.
All right, bye!
We'll see you next time. - Bye.
Is it the school bus again?
- Of course. - What is it even doing here?
It was here for two seconds.
It just used it for a U-turn.
I think he's just turning around.
- Okay, great.
Okay. I'll start.
- Okay. - Wow. Brakes.