Rubbermaid 3-6’ Deluxe Closet Kit Price: $79.99 Shipping Options: $5 Standard Shipping Estimates: Ships in 1-2 business days (Monday, Jun 30 to Tuesday, Jul 01) + transit Condition: New
I just installed the 4-8’ system in my house a 2 weeks ago and I love it. It really helps you utilize closet space.
The rail MUST be fastened into studs but the upright tracks do not. However, I felt comfortable mounting the racks exclusively into studs. Word of caution: ** you will need more screws (and anchors if you’re not going into studs) for the uprights. **
I’ve hung a ton of these or similar closet organizers. In my previous house, we hung at least 5 of them. All but one of them, we hung solely using the top plate. That is, only the top plate had lag bolts/screws in it. For a smaller hall closet, we also anchored in the hanging parts, as I wanted these not to move from side to side since this was the main coat closet.
This seems like a good price to me, as when you go to a “big box” store and start adding up the price of individual elements, they add up quickly.
I purchased two sets of these about 7 years ago for my walk in closet. I’m a somewhat handy female and at the time was 43 yrs old, my son was 7. The two of us installed it. It was easy! To this day I still LOVE it! It’s strong, sturdy, and still firmly attached to the wall. I have reconfigure it a few times, never an issue. Not one problem with any of it!
The only thing I wonder about is how easy it is to get other parts for this. Many times, you want to rearrange the parts or add new sections. Oh yeah, in the pictures they cut two of the hanging parts. I recommend not doing that, as you may want to use the section you cut off in the future.
Can anyone find any info/pics on how this might be configured for a 3’ closet? I’ve been searching for something to make the most out of a small 3’ office closet.
$84.99 shipped? It’s currently $73.87 shipped on Amazon, and it has been as low as $63.82 shipped within the last year. The 4’-8’ model has been as low as $86.24 shipped, most recently on May 4.
Price aside, I have this installed in six different closets, and it’s great to work with, much easier than cutting ClosetMaid and sticking rubber cups on the cut ends.
You can be creative with the shelves: evidently the intent is that you’ll use the two overlapping long shelves (A/B) to make a long shelf, and the overlapping short shelves (A/B) to make short shelves, but you can put a long A with a short B and a long B with a short A (they’re labelled) and for me that got me two full-width shelves. Or you can use the shelves as singletons. Lots of options, and same with the hanging bars.
Another comment: After installing the system in a closet, you will have a lot of extra parts and can probably cobble together another closet (four closets for three) depending on what you used and the width of the closets you outfitted. BUT the key to the whole system is the hanging rail, and Lowes charges $16 for a single 4’ rail, so $32 if you want to attack an 8’ closet. So the rail is the one place where you shouldn’t follow directions if you want to stretch your purchase – if you can cut the rail to length and get some rail pieces from your sets, you can save some money. (Or do two 3’ closets with one set without cutting.) Keep in mind I used the 4’-8’ sets so two sets could do 16’ of closet, meaning I could do three 5’ closets with two sets.
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