Casters have a wide variety of uses both inside and outside the home. Whether you’re looking to sit easier in your office or make less trips to your laundry room, here are just seven ways to improve your life with wheels.
1. Toolboxes
Are you a professional construction worker? Or maybe you’re just a handyman who likes to fix things around the house. A wheeled toolbox is much easier to mobilize than one you have to physically lift, haul and carry, especially if it’s a large toolbox stuffed with heavy instruments.
2. Ladders
Wheeled ladders are extremely convenient in retail settings where you need to be able to quickly move between rows of products. They’re also great for cleaning the rain gutters at home or reaching high things in the garage.
3. Carts
Food service casters are useful in restaurants. Book carts are absolutely essential for the modern library. No matter where you live, work or play, a wheeled cart is sure to make your life easier.
4. Laundry Baskets
Casters can improve both your personal laundry baskets and the industrial-sized ones you use in hotels and other commercial buildings. Instead of hauling wet, heavy clothes and putting painful pressure on your back, you can simply wheel your laundry baskets down the hall.
5. Desks
Students, this one is for you. Instead of straining your eyes over a textbook for hours at a time, put your desk on wheels and roll yourself to the nearest lamp. A desk with casters is also great if you frequently have to move your desk between dorm rooms.
6. Chairs
If you’re a regular sufferer of neck, arm or back pain, putting your chair on wheels can have immense ergonomic benefits. Not only will you be able to change position whenever you feel that tell-tale twinge, but you can also improve your posture from a greater sitting height.
7. Garbage Cans
Does the odor of your garbage make it physically difficult to carry? Or maybe you live in a snowy climate where it’s slippery work to move your trashcans to the curb. You don’t have to struggle anymore: Simply put casters on your garbage cans and wheel them whenever they need to go.
Everything is better on wheels. If you’re looking to improve both the mobility and the functionality of things you have just lying around the house, consider casters during your next shopping trip.
I have a bunch of casters packed away and will keep them for projects like these. They came with several plastic storage containers and I wanted them flat on the carpet, not mobile. They do come in handy. I didn’t think of the laundry basket!
I love the idea of adding caster to items to make them easier to move. I would worry a little bit about having them on a ladder because I would want to make sure they lock in place and that the ladder doesn’t move when someone is on it.
We have casters on just about everything here. We all have arthritis and assorted aches and pains, and rolling things around is a necessity now. I’m not sure how that would work on carpeting, but we have no carpets or rugs, just hardwood and tile floors, so there’s no problem!
Our trash is already in wheeled cans, but I love the idea of laundry baskets on wheel! I hate lugging laundry around!