5 Tier Wire Shelving Unit, Heavy Duty Metal Storage Rack, 640 lb per Shelf, Splits into Two Units, 55.5 x 18 x 71 in

Six hundred and forty pounds on one wire shelf. Five of them, 3,200 pounds across a rack that stands 55.5 inches wide, 18 inches deep and 71 inches tall, and that splits into two 35.5 inch units if one tall rack is not the shape your room wants. If you have ever owned a wire shelf that sagged, the thing to look at is not the deck, it is what runs underneath it.

Wire shelving is what you buy when the room has run out of ideas. The pantry that will not hold a week's shopping, the garage wall where everything is stacked three deep on the concrete, the basement where it all lives in totes because there is nowhere to put a tote. You have probably owned one of these already, the thin chrome kind, and you know exactly where it gave up.

They fail in the middle. A wire deck is held at its edges, so a heavy load in the centre bows it, and once a deck has bowed it never sits flat again. Thin hollow posts are the other half of it, because they flex where the collars grip and the whole rack develops a wobble you cannot tune out. Then there is the floor, which in a garage or a basement is never truly level, so a rack standing on four bare feet rocks every time you take something off it.

Look underneath a shelf and you will see what makes this one different. Every deck has three V shaped reinforcement beams running under it, so a load in the middle is carried on a truss instead of hanging between the edges, which is precisely where an ordinary wire shelf gives up. The posts are 25.2 millimetres across and thickened rather than thin walled, so the collars grip without the upright flexing. Together they hold 640 pounds on each of the five shelves for 3,200 pounds across the rack, numbers we stand behind and back with a 3-year warranty. Four adjustable leveling feet take the rock out of an uneven floor, a pair of anti tip fixings comes in the box for the wall, and your order is parts-verified before it ships: every post, deck, collar, beam and foot counted against the list.

Two more things worth knowing. Every shelf moves up and down the posts in a simple three step process, so a tall gap for the stand mixer and a short one for tins come out of the same rack. And it is a 2 in 1, so the same parts stand as one 71 inch rack or split into two 35.5 inch units, which matters when the room you bought it for turns out not to be the room it ends up in.

Day one it goes together boltless in about ten minutes with the gloves and the rubber mallet from the box, one person, no screws. By the weekend the totes are on shelves instead of on the floor and you can see the back wall of the garage again. A year in, the middle of every deck is still flat, which is the entire reason for the beams underneath.

Two roads. Keep stacking on the floor and keep replacing a shelf that bows every couple of years, or put 3,200 pounds of flat, level storage against the wall this week. Free US shipping, a 3-year warranty, and if anything arrives missing or damaged, the replacement part ships straight to you. builds storage for the kind of person who only wants to buy this once. Order yours today and get the floor back.

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