We strongly recommend having your storage system professionally installed by one of our trained and certified installers. Click here to see why professional installation works best.

Your storage system is load-bearing with significant weight above you and your family's heads as well as your vehicles. Product failure due to an improper installation can result in serious injuries to people and serious damage to vehicles.

There are two main problems homeowners face when attempting to install overhead systems on their own. Interestingly, neither problem has anything to do with locating the studs, trusses, or joists. The challenges people face center around hidden electrical, gas, and water lines as well as ceiling stress caused by overloading their trusses/joists.

HIDDEN LINES AND WIRES Depending on the design of your home and the location of your junction (electrical) box, you may have a maze of high voltage wires tacked above or along side of your ceiling trusses or joists.; Or, your gas and/or water lines could fall in the same place. Most stud finders will show the same reading for a water or gas line that they do for a stud.; Our installers use electrical current sensing stud finders and thousands of units of experience to make sure we do not puncture these lines.

RISK OF OVERLOADING
When installing ceiling and wall mounted storage systems, it is unfortunately not just a matter of hitting the studs. Our professional installers will first determine the layout of your ceiling or wall structure before we recommend an installation design. This is done for one important reason. The weight of your storage system and it's contents must be evenly distributed across the area where it will be installed. If this is not done, the likelihood of your ceiling or wall bowing and your drywall cracking is significantly higher.