Tool Chest Foam Inserts and Tool Trays: Draper EVA, Teng TT and Sealey Compared

Foam inserts turn a tool chest drawer from a pile of loose tools into a layout where everything has a place and a missing tool is obvious at a glance. The catch is fit: a tray that does not match the drawer slides around or will not go in at all. Here is how the three tray systems we stock compare, and how to get the fit right first time.

Draper EVA foam tool trays

Draper's EVA insert trays come in quarter, half, three-quarter and full drawer widths. Standard trays are 270mm front to back, with a shallower series for low drawers. Each tray holds a set of Draper tools in cut-outs - socket sets, spanners, screwdrivers, pliers, hex keys and more. Because the widths are fractions of a drawer, they combine cleanly: two quarters and a half, four quarters, one full-width tray. Our Draper builder holds the real drawer dimensions of every Draper chest and cabinet, offers only trays that genuinely fit, and turns quarter trays sideways where that is the only way they go into a shallow tool chest drawer.

Teng TT tool trays

Teng Tools designs its whole range around the tray: TT tool trays in standardised sizes that drop into Teng roller cabinets, top boxes and portable cases, alongside foam trays for lower drawers. The point of the system is that trays move with you - lift a tray out of the cabinet and take it to the job. The Teng builder lets you pick a Teng storage unit and arrange TT trays and foam trays drawer by drawer with drag and drop, and you will find Teng's product datasheets linked on each tray in the builder.

Sealey tool trays

Sealey's tool trays fill the drawers of its Superline PRO, Premier, American PRO and Black Edition chests and rollcabs, from socket set trays to insulated VDE tool trays for electrical work. The Sealey builder matches trays to the chest or rollcab you pick, and links each cabinet's instruction manual where Sealey publishes one.

Getting the fit right

Three things decide whether an insert fits a drawer: width, front-to-back depth, and drawer height - a deep socket tray will not sit happily in a shallow top-chest drawer. Rather than measuring by hand, the easiest route is to build the layout online: each of our builders knows the maker's published drawer dimensions and only offers trays that fit, with a drawer view that shows the exact arrangement before you buy. Start from the chest you own or plan to buy on the cabinet configurators page, or see how a whole chest-plus-tools build works in our guide to building a tool chest with the tools included.