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If you follow me on Instagram or Snapchat you know that my husband drives a classic car. Her name is Sylvia but I refer to her as Mistress Money Pit (MMP) for obvious reasons. If you know anything about classic cars the care and love for them by their owners can be a tiny bit obsessive. So much so that some of them drive their car about three times before they go and sell it! I mean, they spend however much money on the car, however much doing the car up, and then however much on getting traders insurance from somewhere like One Sure Insurance just so that they can sell the damn thing. An exercise in futility, in my honest opinion.
One of the main issues we were having in the garage is the kids park their bikes on my side of the garage (go figure). When they park their bikes on my side it causes me to have to park a little too close to Sylvia to avoid taking them out. As a result every time I open my door to get out I have to touch my car door to MMP and over time her door has accumulated far too many nicks for his liking.
Fixing this dilemma was fairly simple. We decided to relocate the children’s bikes into the downstairs garage. Genius resolution until I saw snakes enjoying the breeze down there, and quickly that option became flawed.
Snakes.
We then decided the best option would be to install a system to hang their bikes on the wall in the upstairs garage to free up space for me to park properly.
We live in an older home so our garage is huge and there was more than enough space after we measured to put the system upstairs along with his tools leaving the bottom garage for his other classic car that is in the shop *rolls eyes* and the lawnmower. This is what we started with.
I made a trip to The Home Depot to pick up the Rubbermaid® FastTrack® Garage Organization System. It took me a minute to figure out what hooks we needed to house everything that we would be moving up to that garage.
I ended up going with {2} FastTrack® 84 inch vertical rails, 3 FastTrack® Vertical bike hooks, a FastTrack® Utility Hook and a few FastTrack® Multi Purpose hooks along with the hardware packs needed to securely attach the system to the wall.
The FastTrack rails were quick and easy to install once he measured out where the studs were. The system can hold up to 1750 lbs, to make sure you don’t have an issue it is super important to make sure the system is attached to the studs. Our studs ended up being the standard width apart which is roughly 16″.
Once the studs are marked out you have to put in the anchors, found in the hardware pack. You must use the hardware pack for the system, it is only $1.97 so no need to cut corners.
Now it is as simple as screwing the track to the wall and placing the rail cover over it for a sleek and completed look.
I put the process on Snapchat. Here is a short clip of how it works.
Once the hooks were up he was happy to bring his lawn equipment up from the other garage.
All done.
…and because old Money Pit Mistress is so needy, it will be a few days before I can get my bike down without his help. Just think after we put in this system to avoid her door getting nicked and I make a mistake and drop the whole bike on her. That would be some Alanis Morrisette irony there.
This system is a man’s dream. With Father’s Day coming up this is the perfect gift to give all of the father’s in your life.
Can your garage stand a makeover?
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