Product Description

Display your Calphalon cookware proudly and keep your pans within easy reach. The 24-in. Half Round rack mounts against the wall and includes 4 heavy-duty single hooks for hanging your cookware. An ideal size for apartments, cottages and those with limited storage space. It's made of lasting, hard-anodized aluminum for the complete Calphalon look and is equally as durable as the cookware! Comes ready to assemble in compact packaging, including full assembly instructions. Additional hooks available separately. No wall/ceiling mounting hardware included.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #126629 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Calphalon
• Model: GW1224
• Dimensions: 2.50" h x 13.10" w x 24.60" l, 4.25 pounds

Features

• Heavy-duty hard anodized aluminum
• Includes four single hooks
• Keeps pans within handy reach
• Complete with full assembly instructions
• New deeper shape is reinforced for strength

Amazon.com Review
Is your Calphalon collection getting out of control? Does finding the right pot mean triggering an avalanche of gourmet cookware when you open a cabinet door? Time to unclutter. Made out of the same heavy-gauge aluminum as Calphalon's hard-anodized cookware, this gracefully curved wall-mounted rack puts your pots and pans on display, keeps them within quick reach, and frees up cabinet space, all at the same time. (Also, the pans don't rub or scrape against one another, which minimizes damage to your valuable investment.) A wall-mounted rack is the best choice for low-ceilinged kitchens, and as an added bonus, it doesn't block overhead light. Calphalon's patented pot rack hooks can support up to 60 pounds each. They slide freely up and down the rack but won't come off when you reach for a pan. The rack itself is easy to assemble with simple household tools, but Calphalon recommends professional installation. Maybe that's why this kit does not include mounting hardware. --Mary Park

Customer Reviews

Great Pot Rack for Small Kitchens
This new and improved Calphalon 12x24-inch Anodized Aluminum Half Round Wall Rack is perfect for use in a small kitchen. I mounted it with a molly bolt into the kitchen drywall and a wood screw into a stud. I used a Zircon electronic studfinder to find the stud. (Usually wall studs are 16 inches apart, so you will probably only be able to mount the rack onto one stud. Because this pot rack only has two mounting holes, I used a molly bolt for the other hole.) The wall rack must be well secured to the wall because the Calphalon pots and pans are quite heavy. This rack comes with 4 hooks, but you'll probably want to order more. I use hooks on the wall rack to hold long serving spoons, both slotted and plain. I hang hard-to-store items on the rack, like my wok and french roaster and rack, as well as my most frequently used items, such as my omelette pans. I was surprised at how useful and attractive this rack was in my small kitchen. If you move often, you might want to take a polaroid picture of your stocked wall rack so that you can easily duplicate your arrangement in your next kitchen.

Nice tool but difficult to install
This device is quite useful, convenient, excellent space saver.
It is however very difficult to install because the bolts in the back are almost impossible to set and tie up. In addition the distance of the preset holes is greater than the regular studs distance, I had to drill new holes. You need a lot of patience and wrences of various types because of the angles and tight spaces.
In sumamry it is sturdy but the design is lacking. Just few more holes and a greter distance between the back bars would help a lot.
Calphalon could do much better with very little effort.

The rating is reflecting the installation: no stars!
I hated it during the installation, now afterwards I like it.

Good product but beware of the instructions
I just installed one of these for someone else. I do like the material (black anodized aluminum about 1/4" thick and 2" wide), the solid feel, and in general the way it's designed and built.

Some previous reviewers complained that the mounting holes didn't seem to be 16" apart to fit the studs. Actually they are, if you don't try to center the rack between studs. If you mount either the left corner or the right corner on a stud, there's another set of holes exactly 16" away that should line up with the next stud.

Beware of the installation instructions, though!

-- The instructions said I'd need a 7/16" wrench for the nuts but the nuts themselves turned out to be 10 mm. (I opted for a socket on a 1/4" drive ratchet wrench because there sometimes wasn't much room between obstacles to turn a wrench.)

-- The instructions said there were 8 carriage bolts included, all the same length. Actually there were 6 shorter and 2 longer. The longer ones go in the middle where they join three thicknesses of metal.

-- Step 2 of the instructions describes how to join the long flat bar to the curved bar. If you follow the instructions exactly, there's a 50% chance that when you get to Step 7 nothing will fit into place until you go back to Step 2, take the flat bar off again, and turn it end for end.

I strongly recommend turning all the screws only hand tight at first and ignoring the step that says to attach the rack to the wall. Instead, assemble the rest of the pieces and make sure they really do fit. Once they do, you're in luck; take the last couple of pieces off again (necessary for access), tighten the rest of the screws, attach the rack to the wall, and finish assembling it.