Beta RSC50 2.0, specified.

RSC50 2.0 is Beta’s deepest workshop furniture line, and the depth is the whole argument. A 27.6 in. (70 cm) worktop gives you room to work on something and still have tools beside it — the difference between a bench you use and a bench you clear first.

Beta describes it as a Made in Italy product, and it is built as a system rather than a set of cabinets: floor modules, wall units, corners and worktops that combine into a run sized to your wall, then change later when the wall does.

The range offers the worktop in sheet metal, multi-ply wood, or stainless-steel-coated MDF. The sheet metal shelves are covered in shock- and scratch-resistant PVC, which is what makes them suitable for heavy-duty use and for mounting a vise.

Choose by what happens on the surface: stainless for fluids and cleaning, wood for impact and warmth, sheet metal with PVC for general heavy work.

Most workshop furniture stops at the wall and starts again at ninety degrees, leaving a dead triangle. RSC50 2.0 has a self-supporting corner module that carries the worktop around the turn — Beta calls it essential for keeping both the look and the function continuous.

For a two-wall garage build this is the difference between two runs of furniture and one continuous workshop.

• Drawer modules — 23.1 × 14.4 in. (588 × 367 mm) drawers taking Beta’s soft EVA or hard ABS tool trays.
• Service module — paper compartment, waste compartment and a deep drawer, for the consumables that otherwise live on the floor.
• Two-door fixed module — bulky tools behind solid doors.
• Wall units — storage that does not consume worktop.
• LED strips — fitted under worktops and on the wall cabinets for even task light.
• Perforated base panels — take a 19-inch multi-socket rack, so power is designed in rather than trailed across the floor.

Beta makes RSC50 2.0 both as preassembled combinations and as individual modules; here, individual modules are specified with us and quoted in writing. A combination is the faster route — Beta ships a defined set, such as the RSC50 2.0 I corner combination, and the layout is already resolved. Individual modules are the route when the wall has a door, a window or a panel in the wrong place.

Either way the work is the same: measure the run, mark the obstructions, decide the worktop material, and then choose modules. Send us those measurements and we will specify it against Beta’s current module list before anything is ordered.

If you would rather lay it out yourself first, the RSC50 2.0 run builder works a wall length into 29.1 in. (740 mm) bays, derives the worktop and totals the shipping weight. It carries no prices, because the modules are not sold individually here — what it produces is a specification to send us.