A storage track system allows you to easily store cleaning supplies, garden equipment, tools, car accessories, and power equipment on the wall, clearing the garage floor for things like walking and storing cars. Hooks install in studs, while a track uses the entire width of the wall.
“Discover the secrets to making the most of your garage space. Learn from experts and transform your cluttered garage into a well-organized haven. Read now!”
The best canoe and kayak storage puts the boat safely up by the ceiling. It’s not in your way, but your garage ceiling still protects the boat from damaging weather. You need a heavy-duty rack, securely attached to the ceiling joists with lag bolts.
How much does the rack cost
What are the pros and cons of garage ceiling storage?
What is the best garage overhead storage rack for your garage?
Can you handle the rack assembly and installation?
Should you get a stationary or a lifting platform?
How much weight will you need to store on this rack?
How will you arrange the items on the rack for best distribution?
How to add overhead garage storage over the overhead door!
Do you need an adjustable leg feature to account for a ceiling slope?
What is the distance between joists in your garage ceiling, and how does that affect installation?
My favorite ceiling rack for this job is the Store Your Board Hi-Port Ceiling Rack. It’s easy to install, it’s a simple design. You can use the Hi-Port to store two ladders up to 30 inches and 75 lb. per each.
Fall is often a great season for clearing out the garage and organizing. It’s generally less wet than spring and cool enough to do manual work.
Store fat tire bicycles on wide bicycle racks. Store multiple bicycles on an adjustable multi-bike rack. Store snowboards on a lumber rack board. Store skis on a ski wall rack. Store lumber on a sturdy arms attached to the wall studs for stability. Store kayaks and canoes on ceiling racks. Store ladders on ladder hooks or using an electric winch as a ceiling storage hoist. Store brooms, shovels and rakes on a spring-loaded tool organizer. Store fishing rods on a garage door fishing rod rack or a floor stand. Store everything in a fabric-sided shed.
Clever storage for bikes, skis, snowboards, lumber, ladders, kayaks, canoes, brooms, shovels, rakes, fishing poles, wheelbarrows, and tractors.
The best and really the only garage winch that we will recommend for bike storage, ladder storage any any other electric hoist garage storage.
The Best Ways to Store Your Bicycles
When I originally researched garage ceiling pulleys for this article (several years ago), I couldn’t help but notice that too many of them were flimsy and therefore dangerous. I’ve ditched the idea of a hand-drawn ceiling pulley, as you’ll learn in this article, I don’t trust even the good ones anymore.
The best garage ceiling pulley is an automated platform from Garage Gator. It allows you to store 220 lb. on a 6 ft. x 3 ft. platform on the ceiling. The automated platform makes it easy to access ceiling storage while removing the garage stuff from the floor.
Store the ladder on garage hooks installed into wall studs; on a pulley that carries the ladder to the garage ceiling; on a fixed ceiling rack; or on a slatwall organization system.
A Southern Pine garage ceiling with 2×6 joists spaced 16 in. on center has a 4,000 lb. per sq. ft. (psf) weight load capacity. If that garage ceiling will potentially support snow, then the hanging weight for this garage ceiling drops to 2,000 lb.
If those joists are spaced 24 in. on center rather than 16, the clear roof supports 3,500 lb. psf, and the snow roof supports 1,500 lb. psf.
