HyLoft 540 45-Inch-by-45-Inch Overhead Storage System, White
|
List Price: Our Price: $54.97 You Save: $35.02 (39%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Buy Used: from $49.47 (click here) Category: Tools See more product details |
|---|
Tools and Hardware Reviews of HyLoft 540 45-Inch-by-45-Inch Overhead Storage System, White
Customer Review: A great value !
Summary: 5 Stars
i installed two of these units on my finished garage ceiling in about two hours. the only difficulty i experienced was in locating the rafters and getting the appropriate spacing between the down brackets. the whole job amounts to drilling four holes, mounting the brackets, and bolting the assembly together. it's a breeze. i would suggest to the manufacturer that they provide a template on the box cover which could be used to simply locate the center hole for the down brackets on the same rafter. this would save time and make the whole job easier. the fit and finish for this product is outstanding, and i'm extremely pleased with the results.Customer Review: A nice product.
Summary: 4 Stars
These are great in my garage! I would've given it 5 stars except that the braces take up a bit of the storage space. Other than that, they were easy to install and are very sturdy.Customer Review: A practical storage solution when there is no basement
Summary: 5 Stars
I dislike basements...too musty and dirty. So I bought a house with no basement - hence, less storage. But the garage has a high ceiling. Aha! I discovered Hyloft. I bought several of them and installed them - with the help of my son. He is 30, I am 66. He did most of the physical work, I supervised! The difficult part for us was finding the studs. The garage has a painted drywall ceiling with no access to the attic, so we didn't know if the studs ran north-south or east-west. Also, we didn't know how far apart they were. Many holes later we found out they ran north-south and were 24' apart. Once we discovered the studs, we finished the job quickly and patched the ceiling. I added a lot of storage for a low cost.Customer Review: A real space saver, but a couple of tips would have been nice
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a very sturdy product. It is sized such that 4 of these fit over a 16' wide garage door, allowing for the door opener track to go between the middle two. The challenging part of the install is getting the brackets installed into the studs. Stud sensors don't work really well when there are 2 sheets of drywall on the garage ceiling. Fortunately, the lag screws they provide are 2 1/2" or 3" long, so they are plenty long enough.
Here are 2 tips I learned the hard way:
1) If you install these as close to the front of your garage as possible you will increase the risk of the garage door hitting the shelves, requiring you to raise the shelves and decrease the max storage height. This is because the door is making the turn from vertical to horizontal right near the front of the garage and the leading edge of each door panel reaches its highest point as it is making the turn. This caused me to need to move the shelves up one hole (about 2"). In hindsight, I should have moved the shelves one more stud away from the front of the garage and I would have avoided this conflict, while still keeping all my stuff over the garage door (when the door is raised).
2) When installing the actual shelves, make sure that the long bars of each shelf are on top, and the shorter bars are on the bottom. This will make sliding items on/off the shelves easier.
I wish these were mentioned in the instructions. Since most of my items still fit on the shelves over the garage door, I don't think I am going to take these back down and reinstall them just to get the extra 2" back. However, I have 2 big plastic storage totes which don't fit now but could if I get the 2" back.
Customer Review: A studfinder is your friend!
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased two of these racks to utilize space over my garage door.
The hardest part of the whole installation ordeal was locating the joists in the finished ceiling of the garage. And it's ALL about locating the joists.
Once you've located the joists, the rest of the install takes maybe 30 more minutes per rack.
Very nice. We're really pleased with the functionality.
The ONLY shortcoming is that there is no lateral bracing. This means you shouldn't take your crates and shove them across when you put them in the rack, you need to lift them onto place, otherwise the whole thing tends to "wiggle." I am considering the purchase of some thick metal strapping from Home Depot (or similiar place) to use to provide extra bracing.
The instructions were good, I recommend reading them through twice so that you're not reading them on the ladder...
Enjoy!