A five-tier steel wire rack that carries real weight in a footprint you can fit in a closet. It is a laundry-room product doing a job it was never marketed for, which is usually where the value is.
Specifications
-
Dimensions: 16.6 in (W) × 11.8 in (D) × 53.5 in (H) — about 1.4 sq ft of floor
-
Stated static load: 500 lb total across 5 shelves, roughly 100 lb each
- High-strength steel tube in a "spider web" shelf pattern, powder coated
- Shelf heights adjustable; adjustable feet for uneven ground
- Coated against water, rust and corrosion
- No tools required to assemble
- Does not include hooks or shelf liners
Other sizes worth knowing about
The same rack is sold with castors, in a 21.2 in wide version, and in a much larger 30 in wide x 14.1 in deep x 79 in tall five-tier. If you are building a drying setup rather than a storage corner, the 30 x 79 is the one to look at — same shelf design, roughly three times the hanging area, and the wheeled versions let you roll the whole thing out of a tent.
Why the open mesh matters
Air moves through a wire shelf rather than around it, which is the one thing hanging nets and cardboard both get wrong. That makes this the cheapest honest drying rack available — five adjustable tiers in a footprint that fits a closet, with the shelves movable so tall material gets headroom without costing you the whole rack.
On the load rating
Roughly 100 lb per shelf is an order of magnitude beyond what soft-sided greenhouse shelving carries — the walk-in PE greenhouses in this catalog are rated at 18 lb for the entire unit. If you are choosing between them, that difference is the decision, not the price.
Two caveats worth stating. A static rating assumes weight placed evenly and then left alone; uneven loading, knocks and leaning all eat that margin, so treat it as a ceiling rather than a target. And this rack has no cover and no environment — that is precisely why it carries weight. It makes an excellent greenhouse bench inside a structure that supplies the environment.
Shelf loads and footprints compared → · Using it as a drying rack →
