Everymate Wall Plate Storage Review: Will It Hold Your Plates?

Sep 18

My weight plates lived on the floor for four years. Not on a rack, not on a tree, just stacked against the wall in leaning piles where I had to move three of them to get to the one I wanted.

I put up with it because the floor is free. What the floor actually costs you is room to train. Every plate lying flat takes a bite out of the space you have left to stand in, and in a two car garage with a rack, a bench and a treadmill already in it, that bite adds up fast.

This is the Everymate wall mounted plate storage system. I bought two of them, put one on each side of my rack, and installed both on camera. Here is the honest first look.

Watch the full install here: https://youtu.be/y_-by5cz4p0

Why I Finally Did Something About It

I have been a home gym owner for over a decade and an independent professional wrestler for more than twenty years, and the gym keeps growing. More equipment means less floor, and plates are the worst offender because they are heavy, they are wide, and once they are down you stop moving them.

The barbells were the first thing I fixed. I put up an Everymate 6 bar holder and later a rotating 5 bar holder, and once the bars were standing upright the plates on the floor looked twice as bad.

So the job here is narrow. This is a wall mounted steel column with pegs on it, and its entire purpose is to get plates off the floor and onto a wall. It does not make you stronger. The only questions worth asking are how hard it is to put up, how much weight it will actually take, and whether it holds.

It ran $59.99 per unit when I checked it on September 11, 2026. Amazon moves prices on this listing constantly, so treat every dollar figure in this review as a snapshot from that date and not a current quote. Check the listing before you buy.

What You Actually Get

Four pegs, sized for 2 inch Olympic plates. The variant I bought is the 4-peg. Everymate also sells a 3-peg and a 6-peg version of the same system under the same listing.

A modular column, not one welded piece. This is the part that surprised me. It arrives as a stack of separate segments, and every segment has a peg on one end and a slot on the other, so they key into each other as you go up the wall. My words on camera were "it's got a little connector system here so they can fit right together."

A wing piece for the small plates. One of the segments is a wide V shaped bracket with a peg on each side, meant for your 10s and 5s and anything else too small to sit properly on a full length peg.

Two blank spacer segments. These are what let you decide where the wing lands in the stack. As I put it on camera, "that's where you can create the variance of how you want the wing piece and where you want it to fall within the system."

Nine lag bolts per unit. I counted them out loud while I was standing there looking at the finished wall: "it's two, four, six, eight, nine bolts."

Rubber cushion rings. Everymate calls them EVA cushioning pads in the listing. On camera I called them "these little rubber things," and here is what they do: "they go on the pegs all the way against the wall just to help protect the weights against the wall so that they stick out a little bit and they are not bumping on all the way against the wall."

Drywall anchors, included, which I did not need. They are in the box if you are mounting to drywall.

Alloy steel with a frosted anti rust coating. That is Everymate's description and I have no reason to argue with it. The finish came out of the box clean.

No instructions. Not a sheet, not a diagram, nothing. What I said on camera was "there's no instructions included, but this is pretty obvious." That turned out to be true, but I want to come back to it below, because obvious and documented are not the same thing.

What the Install Was Actually Like

This is the part I care most about, because it is the part nobody films.

First thing I did was drag the plates out of the way so I could see the wall. My garage has a lip running along the bottom, so the first peg had to go high enough that a 45 hanging on it would clear that lip. I held a plate up, eyeballed it, made a mark and went with it.

Then the lucky part. I measured up from the floor after the fact and landed on exactly 16 inches. My reaction on camera was "I guessed and it's perfectly 16 inches. Didn't mean to do that but I'll take it."

Finding studs was the easy part for me and it will not be for everybody. My wall is sheeted in OSB, so you can see the seam where each stud lands. In my words, "I can see right where the stud is because this has got OSB over it and so there's a line where the stud meets. So I don't have to go find it." If you are working with finished drywall, that is your real first task, and I said so on camera: "that's probably the hardest part, is finding the studs."

From there it is repetitive in the best way. Pre-drill, drive a lag bolt with a 17mm socket, check that the piece is straight, stack the next segment on top, repeat. There is only a little play in the mounting holes, so you want each piece straight before you snug it down, and I got that wrong once and had to back a bolt out.

The whole system went up with a drill, a tape measure and one socket. Nothing else.

The Wing Piece Is Where I Had to Improvise

The wing bracket has three mounting holes. One in the middle and one at each outer edge. On a 16 inch stud layout, only the middle one lands on wood. The two outer holes have nothing behind them but sheeting.

Loaded up, I could feel it. "These wings right here feel like they come away from the wall just a little bit."

Everymate's answer is the drywall anchors in the box. I did not want anchors in OSB, and I said why: "I'm not going to put it in the OSB. That's just silly." What I did instead was drive a drywall screw at an angle through each outer hole so it pinches the bracket back against the wall. "Just kind of angle the screw so it pinches the plate." It firmed up immediately.

To be fair to the product, there is not much weight going on those wings. My thinking out loud on camera was "there's never going to be a ton of weight on this, so it's not going to be that big a deal, but better safe than sorry." But if you are buying this, know that on a standard stud layout the wing is a one stud bracket and plan for it.

What It Holds, Since Everymate Will Not Tell You

Here is the real finding, and it is the reason this review exists.

Everymate publishes no weight capacity for this rack. Anywhere. Not in the title, not in the five bullets, not in the spec table, not in Amazon's own Maximum Weight Recommendation field. I read the whole live listing on September 11, 2026 and the published specs are brand, material, style, number of racks and frame type. That is the entire list.

On a freestanding rack you can shrug at a missing capacity number. On a wall mount you cannot, because the number is not really about the steel. It is about what you are asking four lag bolts and your studs to hold over your own head.

It is not that the brand cannot publish one. Everymate's other wall mounted plate holder, the individual peg pairs, publishes 330 lb right in the bullets. And on this very listing, the 3-peg variant publishes an item weight of 4.3 kg while the 4-peg variant I bought publishes no weight at all. Same page, same product family, one variant has numbers and the other does not.

So I loaded mine on camera and wrote down what it did.

Two 45 lb plates on a single peg. "Okay so it can hold two 45s on one peg." That is 90 lb per peg, and for what it is worth, 90 lb per peg is exactly what PRx rates its own pegs at.
Three 25 lb plates on a single peg. "Hold three 25 pound plates on a peg." That is 75 lb.
Small plates on the wing. Five and ten pound plates, which is what the wing is shaped for.

That is a measured result from one install on an OSB wall, not a rated capacity, and I want to be clear about the difference. It tells you the pegs and the mounts took that load without complaint on day one. It does not tell you what the ceiling is, and it does not tell you what happens after a year of plates being dropped on and pulled off.

How It Compares

Three wall mounted plate systems share this exact shape, a vertical column with pegs, and the spread between them is a lot bigger than the price spread suggests. All figures below were checked on September 11, 2026.

Everymate 4-Peg, about sixty dollars. Four pegs, 2 inch plates, alloy steel, EVA cushion rings, lag bolts and drywall anchors included, no instructions. No published capacity, no published dimensions, no published weight.
Titan Wall Mounted 4-Peg Olympic Bumper Plate Rack, about seventy five dollars on sale from about ninety five. Rated 800 lb total and 200 lb per post. 74 inches tall, 4.75 inches wide, 10.5 inches off the wall, 9.5 inch pegs at 49mm, 24 lb, installation hardware included.
PRx Performance 4-Peg, about a hundred and eighty dollars, or about two hundred and thirty with the Weight Wing added. Rated 360 lb total, two 45s per peg. 75.5 inches tall, 3 inches wide, 8.5 inches off the wall, 8 inch pegs at 1.75 inch diameter, 28 lb, all mounting hardware included.
Rogue 24 inch Wall Storage Stringer, about sixty dollars. Worth knowing about, but it is a mounting stringer you hang accessories from, not a plate rack, so it is not really the same purchase.
Individual wall pegs sold in pairs, roughly twenty to twenty five dollars a pair, including Everymate's own. Cheapest way in. You are mounting each peg separately and eyeballing the spacing yourself, which is fine for two pegs and miserable for eight.

Those figures are from September 11, 2026. Amazon and every one of these brands move them, so the shape of the comparison is what matters, not the exact dollars.

Read that list and the trade is obvious. Titan is close enough in price that the published 800 lb rating is genuinely worth the difference if you are hanging a lot of weight. PRx is roughly three times the money and buys you a US company, a published rating, and the Weight Wing as a designed accessory rather than a bracket with two holes that miss the studs. I have PRx plate storage in this same gym and I am not going to pretend the Everymate is the same object.

What the Everymate buys you is two complete systems for less than one PRx system with a wing on it. In a garage where I wanted plates split on both sides of the rack, that mattered more to me than the spec sheet did.

Pros and Cons, Real Talk

Pros

Gets every plate off the floor, which is the entire job, and it does it on day one
Held two 45s on a single peg and three 25s on another in my own loading test
Modular stack, so you choose how tall it goes and where the wing sits
Cheap enough to buy two and split your plates across both sides of a rack
Rubber cushion rings on every peg so plates are not banging the wall or the paint
Lag bolts and drywall anchors both in the box
Goes up with a drill, a tape measure and a 17mm socket. Nothing exotic
The second unit went up noticeably faster than the first once I knew the order

Cons

No published weight capacity anywhere on the listing. On a wall mount that is the number I most want and the one Everymate does not give
No published dimensions and no published item weight on the 4-peg variant, while the 3-peg variant on the same page publishes a weight
No instructions in the box. It is figure-out-able, but you are figuring it out
The wing bracket has three holes and only the middle one lands on a 16 inch stud. I drove angled drywall screws in the outer two to firm it up
I did not caliper the peg diameter, the peg length or the steel thickness, and Everymate publishes none of it
11 ratings on this variant. There is almost no independent data on this thing, which is exactly why I filmed it
This is a first look. No durability data, no idea how the coating or the rubber rings hold up a year in

Grab the Everymate wall plate storage here

Who This Is For (and Who Should Skip It)

Buy it if you are:

Staring at plates stacked on your gym floor right now
Willing to drill into studs and keep the rack where you put it
Building out a garage gym on a budget and would rather have two systems than one nicer one
Comfortable working out the assembly order yourself without a sheet of instructions
Storing a normal home gym plate set, not a competition load

Skip it if you are:

Hanging serious weight and you want a published, rated number before you trust your wall. Buy the Titan
Renting, or in a garage you rearrange, where drilling is off the table. Get a freestanding plate tree instead
Wanting the wing to carry real weight on a standard stud layout without extra fasteners
Someone who needs a warranty, published material specs and a support line. That is PRx
Only storing two or three plates, where a single pair of wall pegs does the job for a fraction of this

FAQ

How much weight will the Everymate wall plate rack hold?

Everymate does not publish a capacity anywhere on the listing. In my own test I loaded two 45 lb plates on one peg and three 25 lb plates on another with no issue. That is a measured first day result, not a rated number.

Does it come with instructions?

No. There is no instruction sheet in the box. The pieces key together with a peg on one end and a slot on the other, so the order becomes clear once you lay them out, but you are working it out yourself.

What tools do I need to install it?

A drill to pre-drill the pilot holes, a tape measure, and a 17mm socket for the lag bolts. That is all I used.

Does it come with mounting hardware?

Yes. Lag bolts for studs and drywall anchors if you are mounting into drywall. I used nine lag bolts per unit.

Do all the holes land on studs?

The main column does. The wing bracket has three holes and on a 16 inch stud layout only the center one lands on wood. I drove angled drywall screws through the outer two to pull it tight.

How many plates does it hold?

Four full length pegs plus the wing on the version I bought. In practice that was two 45s per peg and three 25s per peg, with the small plates living on the wing.

Does it fit 2 inch Olympic plates?

Yes. The variant I have is sold as fitting 2 inch plates. Everymate sells separate versions for 1 inch standard plates.

Will the pegs scratch my plates?

Every peg gets a rubber cushion ring that seats against the wall, so the plate rides on rubber and stands off the wall instead of banging into it.

The Verdict

It changed the room, and that is not a small thing.

What I said standing there looking at it was "it totally changed my whole space. It went from the mess that was on the floor to now having organization." And then, a beat later, the line that is really the whole review: "I feel like I've got a real deal gym now."

I have lived with plates on my floor for four years. Two of these, a drill and an afternoon fixed it, and it cost less than one wall system from the brands that publish their numbers. That is the trade, plainly: you save real money and you give up the rating, the documentation and the company that will answer the phone in five years.

There is something under this worth naming. A pile on the floor is not just ugly, it is a decision you keep re-making every time you step over it. Order is not fussiness. It is what lets a space actually get used for what it is for, and a man's house runs on a hundred small versions of that. Let all things be done decently and in order.

What I do not know yet, and I want to be straight that I did not test it, is the ceiling. Everymate publishes no capacity, so nobody knows what that is, including me. I know what four lag bolts into studs held on day one with 90 lb hanging off a single peg. I do not know what it looks like in a year with plates coming on and off every day. When I have lived with it, you get that video. Stay tuned to the channel for updated reviews, more gear, and tips and insights for men leading with purpose.