Howdy, I have a customer who wants motorized clothes rods in their closets for the top rack of clothes(10ft.ceilings)to bring the up and down.I haven’t had any sucess finding information on these and know there available somewhere. Can anyone help..please?
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Cool idea.
I wonder if you could rig up something using a standard electric cable hoist. Could be under $200 for the hoist.
Once saw a pot rack setup that way. Worked well.
The challenge would be to keep it from tipping from side to side with load shift. Running 2 cables or ropes from either end over separate pulleys (straight overhead) might work. Then the hoist would pull on both ropes, and it would come up level. Also would not shift when loaded unevenly.
The standard (cheaper) hoists come with a control switch built in, but it would not take much to setup a wall switch instead.
Hafele has a couple models which go up and down, but are operated by gas struts, not motors. They call 'em "wardrobe lifts".
http://closets.net/ has double-tiered motorized carousels.
You might be able to rig one by starting from a motorized television lift. http://www.auton.com/ and http://www.inca-tvlifts.com are two sources. Inca's site even mentions a custom "motorized closet ring" they did.
Edited 9/10/2004 2:03 pm ET by JAMIE_BUXTON
Electric clothes rod or motorized closet rod
Check out www.Storagemotion.com/wardrobelift They have motorized closet rods and motorized shoe carousels for the home. The rods work like the manual rods but are motorized and have a wireless wall switch. They have a standard Automated WardrobeLiftTM that has a 30" drop from the up position, The Automated WardrobeLift-XL TM that has a vertical drop of 50" (or more) from the up position or their new "wood" Automated WardrobeLift TM which has a 44" drop from the up position and is paintable to match the cabinetry. They support up to 75 pounds and can accommodate up to 16 foot ceilings. They come with a wireless wall switch and a six foot motor cord. The starting price is around $395 (whole sale). It's an awesome product !