Looks good, easy to install and update
I thought the bar bearing the weight would be made of metal, but it's only painted wood. It's actually composed of two wooden rails held together at both ends. The metal hooks onto which one hangs the pots are dropped into the space between the rails, relying on gravity to keep it stable. This way, I can slide the hooks to any position on the rail and add additional hooks as I get more pots. The hooks can also be rotated while in the rails so you can position the pots to face out, or to 'nest' together.
The chains that come with the rack are ugly, but they're very easily substituted.
Great basic pot rack
When I first went to college my parents gave me this pot rack to hang in my studio apartment, and I ended up using it for a total of 6 years before I moved somewhere that I couldn't hang it up. It held up astonishingly well for the entire time I used it, and I was so happy with it that I'm planning on buying another one for my new place (I think we passed the old one on to a different family member).
It's important to note that this is an entry level pot rack, and is suitable mainly for small to mid-sized pots and pans that don't weigh hundreds of pounds when put together. The only structural problem this pot rack has is that it is held together by a bolt at each end of it, and if weight isn't distributed relatively evenly across the length of the bar it has a tendency to bow towards the middle. While this bowing doesn't produce a gap large enough for any of the stationary hooks to fall out, the rotating hooks are actually made of two separate pieces, and it is possible for...
Don't waste your money
This product arrived and appeared to be intact, but when I went to install it I noticed that the wood was split. It appeared as though this wasn't picked up during production and that the item was painted after the split occurred.
Upon further evaluation it was clear that the wood was inferior and not durable enough for the intended application. We ended up purchasing oak scrap and remaking the piece. The oak cost $2.00.
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