Everymate Wall Plate Storage Review

Who this is for

The Everymate wall plate storage is for somebody whose plates are piled on the floor and who has studs to bolt into. It gets them up on the wall without spending a lot.

If you want a published weight rating and instructions in the box, this isn't the one. I'll get into both below.

Why I bought it

I've had my weight plates stored on the floor for years, and I was sick of it. The weight I have is super cool, but it takes up so much floor space, and I keep getting more equipment. I was running out of room.

I bought this with my own money. I actually got two of them, so I could put one on either side of my rack.

It was very inexpensive. I was able to get two, no problem, and it didn't break the bank.

What comes in the box

I got the four peg version. It isn't one long piece. It comes as separate pieces that stack up the wall, and each one has a peg on one end or a slot on the other, so they fit right together.

There's a top piece and a bottom piece, and they're not exactly the same, so make sure you don't grab the wrong one. There's a wing piece for your smaller plates. And there are two pieces that look identical, which you use to space things out. Those are how you decide where the wing falls in the stack.

You also get plenty of lag bolts, rubber rings for the pegs, and anchors in case you're going into drywall.

There are no instructions included. It's pretty obvious once you look at the pieces, but you're figuring it out yourself.

Putting it on the wall

I used a drill, a tape measure and a 17 mm socket. That was it.

I started with the shortest piece at the bottom. My wall has a lip along the bottom, so that first peg had to be high enough that a plate wouldn't hit it. I guessed, made a mark, and when I measured afterward it was exactly 16 inches off the floor. Didn't mean to do that, but I'll take it.

My wall has OSB over it, so I could see the line where the stud is. If you've got finished drywall, finding the studs is probably the hardest part of the whole job.

From there I pre-drilled, ran a lag bolt in, and stacked the next piece on top. There's only a little bit of give in the holes, so get each piece straight before you tighten it down. I had to back one out. It's nine bolts per unit, and the second one went up faster than the first.

The wing piece needed a fix

The wing has three holes. The one in the middle takes a lag bolt into the stud. The two on the edges don't land on a stud at all.

Once the middle bolt was tight, the wings felt like they came away from the wall just a little bit. A big lag bolt through nothing but OSB isn't going to hold much, and I wasn't going to put the drywall anchors in OSB either. That's just silly.

So I took a drywall screw and ran it in at an angle through each outer hole, so it pinches the plate back against the wall. That was better. There's never going to be a ton of weight on the wing, so it's not that big a deal, but better safe than sorry.

What it held

Then the moment of truth. I put the 45s at the bottom, and it held two 45s on one peg. Above that, it held three 25 pound plates on one peg. Then 10 pounders up top.

The 5s and 10s went on the wing.

The rubber rings slide onto the pegs all the way against the wall. They hold the plates off a little so they're not bumping right up against it.

No published weight rating

This is my biggest gripe. Everymate doesn't list a weight capacity for this rack anywhere on the listing.

So what I've told you is what mine held on the day I put it up, on studs, behind OSB. That's what I saw. It isn't a rating, and it doesn't tell you where the limit is.

What it did for my gym

It totally changed my whole space. It went from the mess on the floor to having organization. I feel like I've got a real deal gym now.

I lived with plates on the floor for four years, and I'm so happy I have these now. I'm going to have to switch the colored plates around so the two sides line up, but that's on me.

What I don't know yet

This is install day. I can't tell you how it holds up after months of plates going on and off, because that hasn't happened yet.

I'll come back with an update on how these hold up over time.

Would I buy it again?

Yes. If you need space in your gym and a way to store your weights, do it. For what I paid, getting this kind of organization was 100 percent worth it.

If you'd rather pay more for a rack with a real published rating and a wing that's built to hit the studs, I get that too. Just go in knowing this one leaves those two things up to you.