How do you store bikes at home without staining the floor or wall?

This was how our bicycles were displayed when we first started the business at another location.

The red and yellow sheets on the walls are not for decoration only. They are light weight polycarbonate sheets commonly used for fabricating awnings. We installed each sheet just below the hook. Once the bicycles are hooked up, their tyres lie on these sheets and prevent them from staining the wall.

This was the type of rack we used to hang our bicycles up against the wall.

Do not made the mistake we did by installing the rack too high up the wall. If you do that, you will need to climb up on a stool in order to bring your bike down safely. It is dangerous and you will likely get a backache from handling the weight of the bicycle from a height.

You should hang your bicycles up on the lower hooks by their front wheels. Bicycles hung higher up should be hooked by their rear wheels. You want your bicycles on the lower row to be hooked high enough so that their wheels do not touch the ground. In that way your wheels will not be stained by water and dirt when you are cleaning your floor.

You can also buy floor to ceiling poles to hang your bicycles.

These are the other type of hangers you can consider buying if you like your bicycles hung up for display. They are perfect to be installed on the wall of your car porch as once your bicycle is hooked up, it lies flatter against the wall compared to the single hook wall rack.

There are also ceiling hooks for storing bicycle.

The best location to install it is above the low shoes cabinet near the entrance. This is how my customer 

stored his bicycle.

You can also use a tower rack for storing two bicycles. Try to avoid placing the hook lower down the pole if you do not want the wheel to be sitting on the floor.

If you use this L shape stand and you do not want the wheel to touch the floor, you can place it on top of a low cabinet or platform.