Hi,
I’ve been living in my new apartment for at least half a year by now.. But its only until recently then I finally decided to start looking for a set of heavy duty bolt-less rack for my storeroom.
And this is when Hardware Specialist comes in for my storeroom-storage-solution.
Hardware Specialist is, as the name suggests, a hardware shop. You can find almost everything you need for your home; from furniture hardware, power tools DIY stuff, etc to Automotive care, safety equipment every vacuum cleaners! Well you can call Karcher Vacuum cleaner power tools also right? They even claimed, quoting from their Carousell page:
BETTER PRICE? WE’LL MATCH OR BEAT IT FOR YOU!
As I later found out, if you found someone selling something they have in their catalog at a lower price, they will match the price for you! If you can find a cheaper one that is.. Because the prices of the products they offer are already so darn good to begin with.
Vince was the person who contacted us, he asked us to look through their vast catalog on their Qoo10 page. We spotted bolt-less racks and decided to go for it. The racks came in all sorts of sizes, you can even add additional shelves, nowadays everybody’s talking about customization or personalization. Next, its kinda common sense to go measure my storeroom first before making a purchase, so i did just that. My storeroom is 1.8m wide (internal dimension), there’re options for 1.8m and 1.5m. I of course… opt of the 1.5m, because you wouldn’t wanna scrap cement off the walls by trying to force a rack with a tight fit in..
If you want the delivery to come, you must of course give your address on Qoo10 right? I thought that was easy to understand, but apparently I heard stories about people who purchased items from online platform, never update profile or drop a message to the seller with their addresses, and expect the seller to be a psychic. I wouldn’t want to be that kind of person, if I cause inconveniences to the seller, it will ultimately snowballed to me because my item will be delayed, and I’ll only have myself to blame. Anyways, I proceeded with the order, and be available for the delivery when it comes.
The item came with a free rubber mallet, that means I got to fix the racks myself. Its not a problem at all for me, because I always love a little DIY action at home. I mean, if you’ve been following Claire’s posts of our home, you would’ve notice that most of our furniture were from IKEA, and we fixed everything ourselves. If its a problem to DIY, you might have to give Hardware Specialist a call to see if they can help, I didn’t do that so I can’t tell you.
Now the racks were made up of steel pieces with holes and hooks on them. Its really quite straightforward, no need for a manual to know what goes where. While fixing them, there is one thing to note. There is a middle piece to help secure the racking system together on each shelf. It sort of hook onto the 2 longest horizontal pieces on each shelf, as shown below.
You can see its hooked from the top, but when I first hammer the shelves together, I got one of the horizontal piece wrong!! I spent like 15mins hammering them out of the fittings to turn them around. Notice I need to hammer them to fit them into their fittings? If you have any doubt that the racks are not heavy duty enough, you should throw your doubts out of the windows.
It looks dodgy at first, like how would a couple small flaps of bent steel be strong enough to hold heavy loads? Well if Claire allows, I can even sleep on it or jump on them! I’m sure it will hold, but I wouldn’t recommend anyone to go and jump on their racks now… Its too dangerous for you, not for the racks.
Anyways, it only took me about 30mins to fix my 600x1500x1800mm rack, I saved the labour fees for building something so simple and yet it gave me the satisfaction of completing a large rack which will enable me to keep all my bulky stuffs organized. I really look how my home look right now, its pretty amazing how a large storeroom rack can drastically reduce the clutter that plagued my living spaces like a malignant cancer. Cured with a storeroom rack.
I highly recommend getting one from Hardware specialist, the people there know their stuff and will give you advice with your interest in mind, not their profit unlike some other shops… I’ll probably go back and buy stuff from them regularly, being a guy who likes to DIY, this shop is a great one-stop-shop for everything I need. Even now I can already think of getting something from them, a pack of Karcher vacuum cleaner bags for my dearest Karcher WD-3.
Check them out at their carousell or qoo10 store, or their brick and mortar store located at:
FIRST EAST CENTRE
10 KAKI BUKIT ROAD 2
#01-02
SINGAPORE 417868
Bye guys
Simon Tey
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