The garage that gets swept
Wheels on, loaded with light gear, rolled away from the wall in twenty seconds instead of unloaded shelf by shelf.
Catalogue/Home & Pet Essentials/Data sheet
The taller, wider, wheeled rack: six tiers at 45 by 18 by 82 inches, 350 pounds a shelf, with both casters and floor levelers in the box.
Field notes
This is the bigger brother of the 5-tier rack: nine inches wider, four inches deeper, ten inches taller, one more shelf and a hundred more pounds of rating on each of them. Six tiers at 350 pounds apiece adds up to 2,100 pounds when the unit stands on its feet levelers, which is warehouse territory rather than household. At 45 by 18 inches, a shelf swallows storage totes that hang over the edges of a 36 by 14 rack.
The box contains two sets of feet. Screw in the levelers and the rack plants itself, corrects for a sloping garage floor and carries the full 2,100 pounds. Fit the caster wheels instead and the whole column rolls out from the wall for cleaning or repositioning, at which point the sensible load ceiling drops to 510 pounds total. Both fitments go on by hand, along with the rest of the assembly. Shelves are V-shaped alloy steel mesh finished against rust, so damp basements and garages are inside the brief.
The dossier
This is the decision that separates this rack from the 5-tier. On levelers the frame is rated 2,100 pounds; on wheels it is 510. That is not a defect, it is what four small contact patches and a swiveling joint can carry. Store engine parts and tile boxes on levelers. Put the rack on wheels when the contents are light enough and access matters more, such as a rolling pantry or a craft bay you want out from the wall.
Six feet ten before you add caster wheels, which lift another two to three inches. Standard eight-foot ceilings take it, low basements and garages with pipe runs or a door track often do not. Measure the ceiling at the exact spot, not in the middle of the room. The top shelf also lands above eye level for most people, so put things up there you retrieve rarely.
The shelves are pressed into a V profile rather than left flat. That shape stiffens a 45-inch span so it does not bow under a centered load, which is how the wider rack keeps the same rating per shelf as narrower units. Open mesh also lets air move and spills fall through. Small or flat-bottomed items still want a liner sheet on whichever tier holds them.
The honest ledger
Deployment
Wheels on, loaded with light gear, rolled away from the wall in twenty seconds instead of unloaded shelf by shelf.
Six tiers of bulk goods and small appliances against a laundry-room wall, top shelf for the things that come out twice a year.
Levelers in, heaviest boxes on the bottom two tiers, and 2,100 pounds standing on eighteen inches of floor depth.
Owner questions
Bigger in every direction: 45 by 18 by 82 inches against 36 by 14 by 72, six shelves instead of five, 350 pounds per shelf instead of 250, and wheels included.
No. Feet levelers are in the box as well, and the rack carries far more on them: 2,100 pounds against 510 on the casters. Both sets fit by hand.
None. The clips snap onto the posts, the shelves drop over them, and the feet or casters screw in by hand.
The taller, wider, wheeled rack: six tiers at 45 by 18 by 82 inches, 350 pounds a shelf, with both casters and floor levelers in the box. Filed under home & pet essentials — checked against the rest of the range on this sheet.
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