Garden storage: GearHooks review & giveaway
Do you struggle to effectively manage the storage in your outdoor buildings?
I suspect your typical family shed or garage has to cope with a multitude of storage challenges – including bikes, gardening equipment, DIY supplies, toys, and pretty much anything else that we don’t want to store in the house. Here’s what the inside of our shed usually looks like – be warned, it’s not pretty…
If I’m being completely honest, I actually had a little tidy-up before I took this picture. The entrance to the shed was overrun with ‘stuff’ that had built up over the winter months, when it was too cold to be out there long enough to put it away properly. Which brings me onto the main challenge that we have with our outdoor storage: we just can’t get to the things we need easily enough.
We have four bikes which occupy much of the floor space, and it’s quite a juggling act to line them up neatly enough to allow us room to reach the shelves at the back. If I need a plant pot, it’s a major operation moving lots of stuff in order to get to the shelf, then another big job putting it all back again. And don’t get me started on the random scattering of gardening tools and the contortions required to reach them!
We’ve been wondering how to tackle this storage problem for a while now, and since a bigger shed isn’t an option, we needed to get smarter with the space available. GearHooks sent us a storage rack with hooks for bikes and gardening tools to try out, and hopefully create a space-saving storage solution. I’ve got a fab giveaway for you too, with GearHooks of your choice worth £100 up for grabs!
The principle behind GearHooks is a simple one. A universal 1 metre long GearRail fixes to the wall with three holes and super-strong fixings, then you add a combination of sturdy hooks to suit your storage needs. The rail took minutes to put up using an allen key.
You don’t need to drill any more holes to attach the hooks; you simply insert a clever sprung baseplate into the rail, and screw the front hook section on. This means it’s really quick and easy to move and adjust the hooks should you need to.
Once the hooks were attached, it was time to fill them up! We decided to store the larger bikes at the ends, leaving the smaller tools and bike easily accessible in the middle.
As you can see, we’ve managed to get four bikes and lots of gardening tools on there, with a lot of room still to spare on the longer tool hook. We could easily fit another hook on there too.
The whole system really is very sturdy. The galvanised steel hooks will each hold up to 25kg, and the rubber coating protects whatever you hang on them – so if you’ve got expensive kit you know it’s in safe hands.
Let’s take a look at the shed now shall we?
This simple piece of kit has made such a difference. It’s really easy to get to all the bikes, and we don’t have to move every single one each time we need to get just one bike out. All those higgledy-piggledy bits hanging on the walls are gone – the tool hooks swallowed them up no problem – and the floor is CLEAR! It’s so much easier to walk around the bikes and get to the back of the shed, and I can grab my gardening equipment in seconds. I really do think we’re using the space much better now, and it’s going to be so much easier to keep things tidy.
A GearRail costs £25 and hooks start at £11.94; you can find out more and see all the configurations available on the GearHooks website here. GearHooks have kindly given me a discount code for my readers; if you order before the end of May 2018, use the code Growingfamily04 to grab a 20% discount and free UK shipping! Don’t forget to enter the competition to win £100 worth of GearHooks too.
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I would go for the one you had from gearhooks
The bike storage racks would be the most useful for me and my family x
For my garage and garden shed
The bike storage racks would be very useful for me and my family, it would be a great help.
For my garden and allotment shed
Would have to be the bike storage hooks, would be so easy to hook them up, than having to get them past the car all the time
GearHooks Custom Storage rack would be great for my shed
The bike storage racks would make the biggest difference in my home.
The GearHooks Custom Storage rack would be brilliant for organising my garage.
I think the GearHooks® guitar and musical instruments wall storage rack.
The bike storage racks would be so useful
Would love the Bike hooks for my shed x
Bike storage rack for 3, 4 or 5 bikes. GearHooks® BR3/4/5 would be perfect for all the bikes
The Golf bag and trolley storage rack would be ideal for my son in law
Gearhooks custom storage rack would be very usedul to store things off the ground in my shed
the Custom Storage rack would be ideal for all our family :)
The bike storage would be great for us
It would be the bike storage because they take up so much space in the shed
For my fam the bike storage since they are just so awkward to store, this looks neat!
we have exactly the same problems as you, especially with the bikes. Being able to hang them and just get to the one/s you need would be fantastic. So i would go for a bike hook rack
The bike hook rack would be perfect for us – we are a family of cyclists and our shed is jammed with bikes blocking up the entrance!
i love the garden ones, it would be very handy to have as it takes up a lot of room
I think the gardening tool rack could make the biggest difference.
The GearHooks Custom Storage rack
The garden one for all my tools
The Bike storage rack for 3, 4 or 5 bikes is just what I need to keep our bikes in good condition and free up space in our small storage area.
GearHooks® Garden Tools wall storage rack
I think it’ll be the GearHooks® Garden Tools wall storage rack for us.
Bike storage rack for 3, 4 or 5 bikes would be ideal.
I’d like the music rack -perfect for my husbands guitars
the guitar and musical instruments rack would transform our home which is currently overrun with my son’s guitar, violin, electric violin (and also a load of my daughter’s instruments – how do you hang a clarinet?) . I suppose the piano would have to stay on the floor but the music bags could hang, couldn’t they…
The bike storage racks would free up some floor space
the bike storage racks would be great
GearHooks® Garden Tools wall storage rack looks great
The bike hook would be brilliant, bikes are so bulky!
The bike storage racks would be so useful in our house
The bike storage and display rack for up to 6 bikes would be perfect for me as our garage is full of bikes.
I think the garden tools rack would be the most useful because they are tricky to store neatly and heavy when they fall on you!
Definitely I would love the garden tools rack to tidy up my shed!
the garden one would be perfect to sort our things out in the garage!! at the moment it resembles a jumble sale!!
The bike storage! They take up so much space when they’re on the floor!
Custom storage rack for our shed
the GearHooks® Garden Tools wall storage rack would be good for me
the bike storage racks
For the shed would be ideal
For the garage
The GearHooks Garden Tools wall storage rack! Dad has a ridiculous number of tools all over the garage, this would make a tremendous difference to keeping things tidier and making them easier to access
Bike storage – they take up so much room – would be the perfect storage solution
We definitley need the wall mounted bike rack we only have a small shed and as my husband is a carpenter our shed is full with his tools so not much room for bikes. this is a fab idea!
definitly the wall mounted bike rack. my husband is a carpenterso our shed is full of his tools so not much room for our bikes but this would be a perfect solution.
the garden storage for my hubby
The bike storage racks would be very useful for me and my family, as we currently store our bikes in out spare bedroom
for the garden shed
Fabulous prize for getting my garage organised
I’m torn between the Garden Tools wall storage rack and the Bike Storage Rack because together they would probably allow us to get the car into the garage!
I’m torn between the Gardening Storage Rack and the Bicycle Storage rack because together they would probably allow us to get the car into the garage.
GearHooks® Garden Tools wall storage rack
The garden tools wall storage rack, my son could do with this
The bike storage racks would be very useful
I’d go for the climbing one or a custom one.
I have so much random junk that needs storing in our shed I think I’d have to go for the combi or customised system x
We really need the Garden Tools wall storage rack
The GearHooks Garden Tools wall storage rack would be perfect for us
Gearhooks custom storage rack would be very useful to store things off the ground in my shed
When I sort out amd repair the shed (heart drops at the thought of such a mammoth task) I’d love to get the tidy for garden tools
The Garden kit would make the most difference but when we rebuild our garage the bike storage set would also make a big difference.
The garage ones would be great
The customer set would be perfect.
Just what we need! ⭐️
The bikes hooks for me
These would be perfect for our garage. There’s a lot of things on the floor which could be hanged with these gear hooks.
we would love the customer set please :D x