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I have four ladders in my garage and I was wondering if there’s a better way to hang or mount them. What do you guys do please post pictures or links…
I have this one mounted on regular 4 inch deep screw in brackets:
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Then I just hang my smaller wooden and aluminum ones on a nail:
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And then I’m going to hang this larger one on the opposite wall (The left hook is getting moved over 6 feet):
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Geez no one, I never get the cold shoulder around here like this ha ha. Just asking because I have a Home Depot coupon that expires tomorrow so I have to get all my brackets. I have a 50% off thing. Plus the last like four times I went the person at self check out honored. the 20% off Harbor freight one
Only thing I’ve ever used or seen used is a triangle of waste OSB nailed to a stud.
You have to give people time, two hours is not enough time to sneeze let alone post and show photos. I use shelf brackets, and the small wooden ladder I have hangs on a mount I made out of scrap wood.
Mine hang horizontal on some self made 2×4 brackets
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The shelf bracket thing is very interesting I really like that!@kato There are so many crazy things online and at Home Depot like where you connect one side and then pull a string the other side and it sucks all your ladders flat to the ceiling but I think that may be kind of too much Haha.
This is how the larger 24 foot ladder turned out these were just brackets I had laying around as well. Sorry for the shitty pictures. As you can tell my next project is figuring out what kind of lighting to do and the best way to do it in the garage before I finish the attic floor
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These cabinets also went in today I got them free from a friend who redid a house not bad
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The two sets of cabinets in my garage came from neighbors who were tossing them out. If I can re-purpose something I do, there’s no sense in tossing out perfectly good cabinets, even if you can afford it. The people who tossed them could have used them in their garage, basement, etc..
The shelf brackets are great because you can basically put them anywhere, and hang anything on them. The ones with the sideways ladder are hung with 1/4″x2 1/2″ construction screws into the studs, and the other ones are bolted to a piece of plywood, and the plywood is screwed to the stud. I hung on the ones with the sideways ladder, they didn’t budge under my 200 pounds. Those construction screws are bad-ass.
Only 200 pounds, @Kato LOL
I don’t hang ladders, but getting to the point I need to pull more stuff off the floor than ever before
I hang one in my shed, which I will have to get a picture of. The rest I don’t hang. I wish I had the room to hang them up, but I would loose so much shelf space. Now I just loose floor space, lol.
olletsocmit wrote:
22 hours ago, olletsocmit said:This is how the larger 24 foot ladder turned out these were just brackets I had laying around as well. Sorry for the shitty pictures. As you can tell my next project is figuring out what kind of lighting to do and the best way to do it in the garage before I finish the attic floor
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These cabinets also went in today I got them free from a friend who redid a house not bad
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Timmy, I have quite a few of those brackets and I like them, that’s a great score on those cabinets
Eric – TIA wrote:
20 hours ago, Eric – TIA said:I hang one in my shed, which I will have to get a picture of. The rest I don’t hang. I wish I had the room to hang them up, but I would loose so much shelf space. Now I just loose floor space, lol.
Hang them from the ceiling. I will take some pictures of mine when I go home on lunch.
I just lean mine against a shelf, a good cheap option is plastic pipe holders like plumbers use. Ive been thinking of making ceiling mounts from excess pvc i have around.
Here are mine
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How the hell do you get that longer one up there looks like you need to put it up on one side and then struggle to keep it from hitting the ceiling to push it all the way back or is this one of those adjustable thanks
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How the hell do you get that longer one up there looks like you need to put it up on one side and then struggle to keep it from hitting the ceiling to push it all the way back or is this one of those adjustable thanks
It’s been a whole since I took it down so I can’t remember if I can do it from the middle of them or have to go to one end. But I do remember it being easy. It is fiberglass so it isn’t super heavy. It is threaded rod with plastic tubing so it spins freely.
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