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With a little tweaking, it's perfect.
With a few tweaks, it is the perfect solution for my needs. Truly does not require any tools and can be assembled by one short person (aka me) in under 20 minutes. It holds all of my hanging clothes, which is quite a lot as I hate folding. The caster wheels make hanging clothes easy as I just pull it out of the closet, then push it back. No more aggravation trying to reach dropped hangers or tangled clothing. This fact alone is why I plan to purchase another for my daughter's room.
As others have noted, the instructions, while to me not unclear, are certainly not in the most efficient order. Also, there is not quite enough room for clothing to hang straight between the two hanging bars when assembled as per the picture. I found a work-around for these two issues. I am not associated with the manufacturer and have absolutely no qualifications to ensure you will get the same results I did, though you'd be hard pressed to mess it up. I am notoriously bad with assembling things using lettered parts, so if I can do it, I'm sure you can too. Here's what I did:
First separate your poles marked D & E (D's have a small hole in the bottom and screw bolt in the top, E's have a threaded bottom and solid plastic top). Put your wheels in the bottom of the D poles. Stand one pole on the wheel to see it's true height and determine where you want the bottom rack positioned. Put your "sleeves" (Part A) on the D poles where you want the bottom rack to be. The "sleeves" are not difficult to move, but it does require taking them completely off and putting them back on, so you want to try to get it right the first time. Once you have the bottom have assembled, with the bottom rack securely on the D poles, slide on what will be the middle rack (Part K), without regard to where exactly you want it just yet. Place the E poles into the D poles and screw them in tightly.
Now, before you put on the top rack or the hanging bars, take out the "hanging bracket rod", (Part H), and note its length. This is what you are supposed to attach the hanging bar to, per the instructions. You will note they're about four inches long. Add that to the top part of your clothes hangers to get an idea as to how much empty space will between the top rack and your clothing. When I put the first hanging rod on per the instructions and hung a shirt, there was a good eight inches lost between the bottom of the top rack and the part of the hanger where the shirt attaches. For me, that was just too much wasted space. So, what I did was to measure the height needed from the bottom rack to the middle hanger so the clothes are hanging straight. Then I put the "sleeves" on the poles to position the middle support bars (Part K). Instead of using the hanging rod (Part H), I screwed the hanging bar directly through the decorative space in the sides of the support bars. By connecting using the space either in the very front or very back, you can achieve a cascading effect. So my middle bar connects through the very front space of the support bars. I then positioned the top rack as high as I could and again, instead of using Part H to secure the hanging bar, I used a set of 2" 90 degree shelving corner brackets I had lying around. You can get them for a couple bucks at any store that has a hardware department. I attached the bar to the brackets and simply laid them flat on the top rack. I was then able to slide my top bar from front to back as needed to determine where I actually wanted the bar to be in relation to the bottom bar. I ultimately chose to attach it to the very back of the top rack so the top clothing hangs behind that of the bottom and I still have usable space on both the bottom and top racks.
For the TL;DR crowd: It's a great product for the price and with a little creative thinking, you can manipulate it to meet your needs and keep your clothing hanging straight instead of folding on to the bottom hanger or rack.
October 2015 · Home and Kitchen · verified purchase