The Best Gear for Your Garage

We started Reboot My Garage because we were faced with our own disorganized and dirty garage. We were applying our engineering and analytical skills to fixing our garage. We thought, why not document our work for others? We have spent hundreds of hours researching and often testing the best garage organization and maintenance products out there. We only recommend products we’ve researched ourselves. We sometimes look at two dozen products before choosing “the best.” We recommend these products without hesitation. Enjoy our unbiased reviews.

Best Sports Ball Storage

The StoreYourBoard ceiling rack holding two ladders

The Best Tennis Ball Organizer

Here are two tennis ball carts that you can store in the garage.
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The Best Sports Ball Organizers for the Garage

Best sports ball storage for the garage.
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The Best Sports Ball Hanging Basket

Gladiator makes the best wall-hanging sports ball basket. But be aware, Gladiator is a garage storage system. To hang this basket, you'll need a Gladiator GearTrack wall channel to hang it on.
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The Best Portable Sports Ball Storage

This sports gear and ball bag easily stores on a garage shelf or hangs from a pegboard or slatwall hook. One of the best portable sports ball storage bags I've found is the Fitdom Heavy Duty XL Ball Bag. I wish I could find a gym bag that stands as
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The Best Near-Court Ball Storage

The Basketball Butler is the best basketball storage for near the court.
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The Best Lockable Wheeled Ball Cage

The best wheeled cage sports ball storage, locking cable and lock.
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The Best Bicycle Storage

The 7 Best Ways to Store Your Bicycles

These are the 7 best bike storage products.
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The Best Ceiling Storage

The Best Garage Ceiling Pulley

This is the only manual pulley we recommend.
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The Best Ceiling Hoist Winch

Don't screw around with overhead storage! Know your ceiling weight capacity, and only buy the highest-rated ceiling storage devices!
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The Best Garage Lights

Sunco LED shop lights use only 40 watts, but that's the equivalent of 260 watts in an incandescent bulb. Click to calculate the number of lamps for your space.
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The Best Clean Garage Gear

The Best Garage Floor Mats

The best garage floor mats are the AutoFloorGuard, the Resilia and the Drymate. Two are better for studded snow tires. One is best for containing snow melt.
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The Best Garage Floor Repair Gear

The Best Garage Floor Mats

The best garage floor mats are the AutoFloorGuard, the Resilia and the Drymate. Two are better for studded snow tires. One is best for containing snow melt.
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The Best Garage Floor Repair Products

These are the products we recommend for prepping, repairing, protecting and, enhancing your garage floor.
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The Best Garage Garden Gear

The Best Grow Shelves for Your Garage Garden

We really like these three grow kits because they make it easy to grow a garage garden.
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The Best Outdoor Hose Hook

For good hose storage, you want to know: the load capacity, because hoses get very heavy, especially with water in them; the depth of the rolled up hose, so that the hook is wide enough to carry it; the hook's weather resistance, so you get one that doesn't rust.
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The Best Ladder Storage

The Best Ladder Hooks

Our favorite hooks and racks to hang even the largest ladders.
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The Best Ladder Storage Ceiling Rack

This is the best ceiling rack to store two ladders up to 75 lb. each.
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The Best Garage Ladder

I have always had a hard time standing on ladder rungs. I don't mind painting the house, but when it comes to standing on the ladder for a long time, my feet hurt too much. We're shopping for a a Little Giant Ladder because you can actually turn it into scaffolding!
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The Best Lawn Mower, Tractor, Kayak, and Large Item Storage

The Best 17 Ways to Store Awkward Garage Items

Clever storage for bikes, skis, snowboards, lumber, ladders, kayaks, canoes, brooms, shovels, rakes, fishing poles, wheelbarrows, and tractors.
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The Best Garage Repair Safety Gear

The Best Garage Project Safety Gear

These are the gloves and goggles we use when working in our garage.
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The Best Generator Shed Products

How to buy our recommended generator and generator shed component parts.
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The Best Garage Temperature Control

The Best Garage Heating, Cooling, and Insulation

Our best ideas for insulating, heating and cooling the garage.
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The Best Garage Vacuum Cleaners

The Three Best Garage Wet Vacs for 2020

Here are the three winners in our garage vacuum cleaner contest "wet vac" category.
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The Three Best Garage Wall-Mounted Vacuums for 2020

Here are the three winners in our garage vacuum cleaner contest "wall-mounted" category.
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What is the Absolute Best Garage Vacuum Cleaner in 2020 (Contest 2 of 2)

I compared the VacMaster to a Bissell, a Stanley, a GarageVac, a DeWalt, a VacuMaid, a Hoover, four Shop-Vacs, two Workshops and two Ridgids. I narrowed it down to four machines: a Bissell, a DeWalt, a VacuMaid and a Ridgid. The VacMaster beat them all.
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What is the Absolute Best Garage Vacuum Cleaner in 2020 (Contest 1 of 2)

VacMaster makes some really cost-effective, powerful and highly-rated vacuum cleaners. I scored each one on eight factors I have to have in a garage vacuum cleaner. The winner achieved an almost perfect score.
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The Best Garage Wall Storage

The Best Way to Start-Off Your Rubbermaid FastTrack Storage

You could get a track and hooks to see how you like the FastTrack as a garage storage system. I'll show you the best items to consider. Then I'll show you some specific FastTrack items that will help you solve the tool, ball, and general storage problems in your garage.
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The Best Garage Wall Storage

One main principle for garage organizing is: “Keep things off the floor!”
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The Best Family Garage Organizers

Products that will help you organize your garage without your family hating you.
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The Best Garage Slatwall Storage System

The best storage systems get garage items neatly off the floor. One of the nicest ways to do that is a "slatwall" system. This allows you to move your storage anywhere on the system with a simple locking hook. Here's our favorite slatwall system.
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The Best Garage Fixed Wall Shelves

If you are going to go through the trouble of installing shelves in your garage you should really get the ones that will last the longest and hold the most weight. You will be happy you took the time to do it right the first time.
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The Best Garage Adjustable Wall Shelves

There are times when a durable, adjustable shelf is just what you need. If you’re in the market for a set of adjustable shelving for your garage, or anywhere you need some sturdy shelving, the Fleximounts 3-Tier Storage Wall Shelves has you covered.
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