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This is our first pot rack, and I must say that this one is well made. Comes with four chains and 4 mounting hooks so you can hang it as shown with 2 chains on one hook or with each chain on its own hook. I screwed all four into my ceiling so that the rack would maintain balance better when taking items off of it. Took less than an hour to install with a cordless drill and stud finder. It is made in China but is very sturdy and could not imagine ever needing anything more. We have over a hundred pound on this thing right now and it holds up fine.

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Looks great on amazon, but when you open the box its a different story. First in comparison to the black picture, you will notice the Fo antique paint job which is really light brown paint spread across the metal so thick you can see the brush marks. This "paint job" is continued across the chains, hooks, and bolts. It is so tacky I would expect to see this sold at a craft fair for 25$. Next you will notice that the hooks do not fit into the center, only along the outside edges leaving a hole in the center while hanging pots. Lastly the welds are pretty rustic with the center hoops disjointedly not meeting on the other side. They mostly connect only with the weld. I fool heartedly tried to salvage the pot rack by sanding down the brown paint and repainting it. After about 6 hours worth of work, purchasing new chains, and new hooks to fit in the center the pot rack looks OK. I wish I had sent this back. This is very cheap craftsmanship for 100$.

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I'm of two minds on this pot rack. On the one hand, you can spend as much ason a pot rack, and this unit costs only For the price, I suppose this isn't such a bad unit. On the other hand, you get what you pay for. Construction quality is generally poor, the welds are messy and the finish is awful. The threads on the ceiling hooks are the worst I've ever seen. Naturally any time you put a thread this large into solid wood, you have to appropriately pre-drill the holes. Even having done that, the threads were so dull and rounded I couldn't get them to bite. I could have possibly enlarged the holes somewhat, but, in my opinion, that wouldn't have left enough wood to adequately grip the threads (a full load of pots adds up to a lot of weight to support!) In the end, I threw the ceiling hooks away and replaced them with some heavy eye bolts with good quality wood screw threads. The pot hooks are adequate, but they sometimes require a bit of forcing to get them installed, and the finish on them is fragile. In the final analysis, the unit does what I need it to do, which is to free up cupboard space and get my pans where I can easily reach them. For that, I'm happy. However, if I had it to do again, I'd spend the extra money to get a better built, better finished product. I wouldn't recommend this pot rack to anyone.

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This rack is precisely the same one I saw on far more expensive websites. We've hung it and I'm delighted with it. One caveat: the hooks have on them a rounded tip that's excellent for preventing items from slipping off too easily, but the knob also prevents me from using them to hang pots whose handles have narrower openings. For those I have to use hooks of my own.

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This is a large pot rack that will probably hold more weight than your ceiling can support. Make sure you get the screws solidly into the joists.

The hooks have large balls at the end. Not all pot handles will fit over these (most of mine did) so for some pots you will have to get other hooks or put them in the basket. No complaint here; we have everything from old cast iron to All-Clad and there is not a good way to make hooks that will hold everything.