A single overhead rack installed in New Jersey starts at $495. A full garage makeover — overhead racks, slat wall, cabinets and a workbench — typically runs $3,500 to $9,000, and a makeover with a coated floor under it lands between $6,000 and $14,000. Most garages are done in one or two days.
The difference between storage that works and storage that comes down on your car is what it's screwed into. We open the ceiling drywall where we need to, find the actual joists or trusses, and lag into wood — not into drywall anchors and hope.
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A single overhead rack installed in New Jersey starts at $495. Typical price: $595 – $14K. Licensed & insured, written itemized price before work starts, no deposit, one dedicated crew. Serving all 21 New Jersey counties from Paramus. Call (201) 676-3099 or book a free estimate.
Snow blower, two shovels, a bag of ice melt, four winter tires, patio cushions from October to May, bikes, a wet-dry vac, holiday bins, the lawn mower, and whatever came out of the basement when it got finished. That's the real list, and most garages get it wrong by storing all of it on the floor.
The fix is simple and it's vertical. Bins and off-season gear go overhead. Anything you touch weekly goes on the wall at chest height. Only the car and the heavy machines live on the floor. We lay that out with you before anything gets screwed down.
Slat wall is PVC panel that runs floor to ceiling and takes hooks, baskets and shelves anywhere along it. It's the most flexible thing you can put in a garage — move a hook, change the whole wall in a minute. It's also the right answer for a garage where the walls are unfinished block or studs, because the panels give you a finished surface and a hanging system at the same time.
Cabinets are for the things you'd rather not look at, and for anything with a lock — chemicals, power tools, paint. We use steel or heavy laminate boxes with adjustable feet, because a garage slab is pitched toward the door and a cabinet that isn't leveled looks wrong from day one.
Most of the garages we do are both: slat wall on the long side, cabinets and a bench on the back wall, racks overhead. We'll draw it at the estimate so you can see it before you buy it.
We measure the bays, the door track, the open door height, the ceiling framing and the panel and outlet locations. You tell us what has to fit. Itemized price on the spot.
Panels, racks and cabinets come in. No deposit — you pay as work gets done. If a coated floor is part of the job, the floor gets ground and coated first.
Ceiling racks first, then slat wall, then cabinets and bench, then hooks and accessories loaded the way you told us you'd use them. One to two days for most garages.
We help load the heavy bins onto the racks so you can see them hold, sweep the garage out, and walk it with you before you release final payment.
Paramus-based, building garage storage across all 21 New Jersey counties. Doing the floor coating and the storage in the same week is the cheapest way to buy both — one mobilization, one crew, one price.
Text a photo of your garage to (201) 676-3099 or email your wish list to info@firstcallcontractingnj.com and we'll come back with a layout and a number.
typical fixed-price range — your exact number goes in writing after a free visit
How we beat the big chains: Garage franchise systems price by the linear foot of cabinet and bury the install labor inside it, so the number moves the minute a salesman sees a nice house. No franchise fees, no commissioned salesmen, no rented subcontractors — that's typically 15–30% under national-brand quotes for the same or better spec. Bring us any written quote and we'll match the scope line by line.
“The rack they installed came down in the middle of the night with everything on it.”
“They installed the overhead rack and now the garage door hits it every time it opens.”
“The cabinets look great and two of the doors don't shut because the floor slopes.”
You found a crew that is actually near you. First Call Contracting is based in Paramus, in Bergen County, and our own licensed techs handle garage storage in all 21 New Jersey counties — no call center, no subcontractor sent from two states away. Most of Bergen, Passaic, Hudson and Essex is 15 to 30 minutes from our shop, and emergencies go to the nearest crew, 24/7.
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Call (201) 676-3099, text us a photo, or book a free in-home estimate — you get a written price before any work starts.
A single overhead rack installed starts at $495. Slat wall on one bay wall with hooks and baskets is roughly $1,200 to $2,800. A full makeover with racks, wall system, cabinets and a workbench typically runs $3,500 to $9,000, and adding a coated floor puts most projects between $6,000 and $14,000.
A standard 4x8 rack lagged into solid framing is rated for several hundred pounds, and we install well under that. The limit is usually your ceiling, not the rack — engineered trusses have a design load, and piling a garage worth of bins onto two chords is how ceilings sag.
Yes. Slat wall, steel cabinets and coated racks handle Jersey temperature swings and damp without warping. What we don't recommend in an unheated garage is particleboard cabinetry, which swells the first humid August.
Yes, and you should. The floor gets ground and coated first while the garage is empty, then storage goes in on a clean surface. One trip, one crew, one written price — it costs less than booking the two jobs separately.
Not for racks, wall systems or cabinets. If we add outlets, move an EV charger circuit or put in new lighting, that's electrical work under the NJ Uniform Construction Code and it gets a permit and an inspection — pulled by us.
One to two days for storage alone. With a coated floor, plan on the floor day plus 24 hours before you park, then the storage install. We'll give you the exact schedule in writing before we start.
If you're anywhere in New Jersey, yes. First Call Contracting is based in Paramus and handles garage storage across all 21 counties with our own licensed crew. Most of Bergen, Passaic, Hudson and Essex is 15 to 30 minutes from our shop, and emergencies are dispatched to the nearest crew 24/7. Call (201) 676-3099 or book a free in-home estimate.
Racks into real framing · slat wall · cabinets leveled to a laser line · one or two days
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