These are amazingly strong and stable once installed! A few tips: don’t try to install them alone like I did, having two ladders helps a bunch, get a good quality stud finder, when installing a set against a wall, feed your bolts for the uprights through before you put the hangars on the ceiling use a nut to hold them, pre-drill all holes into the ceiling (don’t try to just run the lag bolts into the joists like I started to-you’ll regret it) if you can, snap or draw a line perpendicular to the wall at each joist to give yourself a reference and use a square to make sure everything is parallel- makes installation so much easier. Also use a hangar for a template if you mess up the cardboard one that comes with the kit. These are so strong, I weigh about 225 and got up on them so my wife and kids could hand everything up and so stable and strong I never felt uneasy about being up there. Worth every penny. I actually thought I could fabricate these myself, which I can, but the prices of steel angle and all the hardware came out to be about the same as one of these kits so it’s not worth the extra effort.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Solid and stable, excellent quality materials. Installation tips really help
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2020
These are amazingly strong and stable once installed! A few tips: don’t try to install them alone like I did, having two ladders helps a bunch, get a good quality stud finder, when installing a set against a wall, feed your bolts for the uprights through before you put the hangars on the ceiling use a nut to hold them, pre-drill all holes into the ceiling (don’t try to just run the lag bolts into the joists like I started to-you’ll regret it) if you can, snap or draw a line perpendicular to the wall at each joist to give yourself a reference and use a square to make sure everything is parallel- makes installation so much easier. Also use a hangar for a template if you mess up the cardboard one that comes with the kit. These are so strong, I weigh about 225 and got up on them so my wife and kids could hand everything up and so stable and strong I never felt uneasy about being up there. Worth every penny. I actually thought I could fabricate these myself, which I can, but the prices of steel angle and all the hardware came out to be about the same as one of these kits so it’s not worth the extra effort.