ARackAbove - Floor Supported Overhead Garage Storage

ARackAbove - Floor Supported Overhead Garage Storage Most garage ceilings are never designed to carry hanging loads. We are floor-supported overhead storage—2,000 lbs on the floor, not your ceiling.
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Drilling racks into trusses can damage the your roof - ladders falls cause thousands of injuries each year. 1 Car Garage Unit = $1599.00
2 Car Garage Unit = $1999.00

Manufacturers of garage rack focus on rack capacity in their advertising, but focus on the garage structure in their ins...
06/02/2026

Manufacturers of garage rack focus on rack capacity in their advertising, but focus on the garage structure in their installation instructions?

For decades, homeowners have been taught to ask:
"How much weight can the rack hold?"

400 lbs? 600 lbs? Or even 800 lbs?

But while reading the installation instructions from one of the largest ceiling-mounted storage rack manufacturers in America, I found something interesting.

They don't say your garage ceiling can support 400 lbs.

They don't say your garage ceiling can support 600 lbs.

They don't say your garage ceiling can support 800 lbs.

Instead, they say:

"The ceiling must be capable of supporting the combined weight of the garage rack and your stuff."

Read that again.

The marketing talks about rack strength.

The installation instructions talk about ceiling strength.

Those are two completely different concerns.

A ceiling-mounted rack can be rated for 600 lbs, but that does not automatically mean your ceiling above you was designed to support an additional 600 lbs of suspended storage.

The instructions go even further, stating that if the ceiling cannot support the load, the structure must be reinforced.

That raises this question almost nobody asks:

If the rack rating is the most important number, why does the manufacturer spend so much time talking about the ceiling in the manual?

Because the real question isn't:

"How much weight can the rack hold?"

The real question is:

"Where does the weight go?"

The screenshot below came directly from the manufacturer's installation instructions.

ARackAbove—The company that helps homeowners understand ceiling capacity before trusting it to celing-mounted overhead storage.





For decades, the entire ceiling-mounted garage rack industry has built its business model on a single, cheap assumption:...
05/25/2026

For decades, the entire ceiling-mounted garage rack industry has built its business model on a single, cheap assumption: just lag screw the rack supports into the ceiling trusses.

They manufacture the racks, box them up, put impressive numbers on them, and push the structural responsibility and physical risk onto you or the local installer.

They built an entire empire on this design.

We built ours on the floor instead. No ceiling required. No risk transferred.





Most homeowners think overhead garage storage is a fix my clutter problem.It’s not.It’s a structural problem disguised a...
05/22/2026

Most homeowners think overhead garage storage is a fix my clutter problem.

It’s not.

It’s a structural problem disguised as organization.

Every year, homeowners drill storage racks into garage ceilings believing the system is “safe” because the rack itself is rated for 600 or 800 pounds.

But that number only describes the steel rack’s capacity in a controlled environment.

Not the structure most of us drill into.

The average homeowner knows lag bolts. They’ve them screwed into their ceiling trusses.

They assume this equates to strength.

What they don’t see is the long-term stress being transferred into roof framing systems that were often never engineered for heavy hanging storage loads in the first place.

This is the hidden problem with traditional ceiling-mounted overhead garage storage.

Nobody wakes up wanting “an overhead storage rack.” People put less time into researching their ceiling strength than purchasing a television.

I understand they want their garage back, but at what price?

The strongest overhead storage system is not the one with the biggest weight rating in the advertisement.

It is the one designed to protect the structure it lives inside.

Homeowners buy garage ceiling-mounted racks based on a manufacturer’s stated capacity. What you are not told is that the...
05/01/2026

Homeowners buy garage ceiling-mounted racks based on a manufacturer’s stated capacity. What you are not told is that the moment that rack is installed, you are assuming full responsibility for how it interacts with your home’s roof structure. The entire overhead storage category is structured to separate the sale from the responsibility. It relies on a series of liability hand-offs that leave you, the homeowner, solely responsible for any failure.
IRC Section R802.10.4: Truss members shall not be altered without approval from a registered design professional. International Residential Code Section R802.10.4:
"Truss members and components shall not be cut, notched, drilled, spliced, or otherwise altered in any way without the approval of a registered design professional.”

see a better alternative to overhead garage storage @ www.arackabove.com




04/27/2026

Storage units cost you way more than just money. They spend your time—and most people never account for it.
Think about what it actually takes to use one. You drive there, unlock the unit, and shuffle through boxes, hoping to find what you came for. By the time you grab it and drive back, what you justified as a "quick trip" has easily eaten an hour of your life.
Now repeat that. Multiple trips. Fuel costs. Wear and tear on your car. Time lost. Over the years, that "cheap" monthly fee transforms into a massive, unrecorded expense.
Auto-pay is designed to hide the pain. Once it’s set up, the payment disappears into the background. No reminder. No friction. Just another charge hitting your account while your belongings sit in the dark, losing value. In reality, you’re paying a premium to store items that are becoming "emotional anchors"—things you could have sold or donated, but instead, they sit there costing you rent every single day.
If these items had real value, you’d be living with them. You’d be finding enjoyment in them. Instead, they’ve turned into a bill for space you don't use to house things you don't need.
It’s not just the monthly fee. It’s the combination of time, distance, fuel, wear and tear, and a payment system designed to be forgotten. That’s the part most people don’t think about until they’re already buried in it.

STOP wasting your time and money! visit www.arackabove.com

Ken found ARackAbove online and picked up the phone because he was done climbing a ladder just to use his own garage. It...
04/24/2026

Ken found ARackAbove online and picked up the phone because he was done climbing a ladder just to use his own garage. It wasn’t just inconvenient. It scared him.

On top of that, he started to question something most people never think about — the weight of 6 ceiling racks hanging from his ceiling.

He removed the ceiling-mounted racks, and I assembled a 2-car ARackAbove on one side, then piggybacked a 1-car unit to cover the third bay.

Now everything changed.

Both cars fit in the garage again.
His gym is fully accessible.
And he never has to climb a ladder to get to his stuff. His feet stay on the floor.

Same garage. Completely different outcome.

Call to organize the safe way. Feet on the floor and access from both sides of the rack.

Visit www.arackabove.com
(407) 474-1214





garage ceiling storage

There’s a better way to do overhead garage storage and it DOES NOT involve your ceiling. How many of you think you’re ju...
04/19/2026

There’s a better way to do overhead garage storage and it DOES NOT involve your ceiling.

How many of you think you’re just adding “storage” over your head when you install ceiling-mounted racks or lifts? You’re not.

That ceiling is part of your roof system.

IRC Section R802.10.4 says:
“Truss members and components shall not be cut, notched, drilled, spliced, or otherwise altered in any way without the approval of a registered design professional.”

In plain terms:
• Trusses are structural components
• Drilling into them is an alteration
• Alterations require engineering approval

Trusses are designed as a complete system based on specific loads.

They’re built to hold the roof—not storage.

This is the part of the ‘garage ceiling rack’ industry that nobody tells you.

If your ceiling isn’t designed for storage, why are you using it?

www.arackabove.com




Most homeowners think they are just “adding an overhead shelf.” The International Building Code looks at trusses differe...
04/16/2026

Most homeowners think they are just “adding an overhead shelf.” The International Building Code looks at trusses differently.

IRC Section R802.10.4 states:
“Truss members and components shall not be cut, notched, drilled, spliced, or otherwise altered in any way without the approval of a registered design professional.”

In plain terms:
• Trusses are regulated structural components
• Drilling into them counts as an alteration
• Any alteration requires engineering approval

They didn’t say:
• “Avoid excessive drilling”
• “Limit modifications”

They said:
• “Shall not be… drilled… or otherwise altered in any way”

This is absolute language.

This rule exists because trusses are designed as a complete system, based on the loads listed in the truss drawing.

So therefore, garage ceilings are NOT designed to support heavy hanging loads. In fact, the vast majority of trusses that hold up your roof are not engineered to support more than a gallon of milk per square foot. Yes, this is true. Truss engineers design trusses to support the roof structure, taking into account snow, wind, and other environmental factors. Unless specified on your truss diagram, storage is not part of the design criteria.

To learn about overhead storage solutions that wont damage your home visit www.arackabove.com





Most garage ceilings were never designed to hold storage.Every rack you see bolted overhead is loading your trusses — sl...
04/13/2026

Most garage ceilings were never designed to hold storage.

Every rack you see bolted overhead is loading your trusses — slowly. Quietly. Permanently.

This is how garage ceilings sag. This is how people end up falling off ladders with significant injuries.

We designed an overhead storage solution that solves the truss damage/loading problem without penetrating your ceiling. Our system safely supports 2,000 lbs on the floor. Your items stay accessible on both sides of the rack, while your feet stay on the ground.

It’s not cheap. It’s not for everyone. But it is lightweight, easy to assemble, and extremely strong. And best of all, it fits any garage, so you can take it with you if you move.

If you own your home and don't want to guess how much weight your ceiling can safely support, this is worth seeing.

www.arackabove.com

I bet you did not know that the majority of garage ceilings are NOT engineered to carry hanging storage.Do you know that...
03/10/2026

I bet you did not know that the majority of garage ceilings are NOT engineered to carry hanging storage.

Do you know that every home is built from an engineered truss drawing that lists the loads the ceiling was designed to carry.

In every truss drawing, there is a load box that includes:

• Bottom Chord Dead Load (BCDL) — drywall, light electrical, maybe insulation
• Bottom Chord Live Load (BCLL) — often 0 lbs

All structural forces and deflection limits are calculated from this box.

If a ceiling rack or hoist isn’t in the loading criteria, it was never modeled or verified in the engineering.

Yet thousands of people hang 400–800 lbs of storage from those same trusses never designed for it.

Before adding overhead storage, review the truss drawings or consult an engineer.

Because in structural engineering…

“0” means zero.

That’s why we build floor-supported overhead storage.

• No drilling
• No attachment to trusses
• 2,000 lbs resting on the ground
• Your feet stay on the floor






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