Rev-A-Shelf Heavy-Duty Appliance Lift

This product is a very heavy duty mixer shelf. My husband actually installed it in a cabinet that had a drawer over the door. If you are going to do this, make sure you measure carefully as the mixer shelf will take up the entire lower cabinet--from top to bottom. You need to allow room for the height of the mixer and for the fact that the mechanism swings all the way to the bottom of the cabinet. If you install in a cabinet with a drawer over it, please consider that the shelf for the mixer will not come up to the height of the counter top, but it will be approximately 4-5 inches below the counter top. I have a large 6-quart Kitchen Aid mixer which is quite tall and I am only 5'1" tall, so it works perfectly for me. It is actually at a more workable level for me than when it was sitting on the counter top. We found that installing it with this set up meant that the mixer would have to sit parallel to the counter due to the height restriction of having a drawer over the cabinet. The instructions were excellent and my husband said they were easy to follow. It does take a long time to install because you'll need to do a lot of precise measuring. My cabinets are white and we used a 3/4" thick x 15 3/4" deep piece of white prefinished shelving from Home Depot and my husband cut it approximately 20 1/2" long and left the 15 3/4" side uncut. The shelving works great because it is the recommended 3/4" thick and is finished on three sides. He placed a 2" high piece on the 15 3/4" backside as a 'backsplash' so that I can store attachments there and they won't slip off the shelf and end up in the back of the cabinet. The delivery was so quick we couldn't believe it. This device will be a God-send for me and I look forward to never again having to lift that heavy mixer from my cabinet.

This is very sturdy. Hold the heavy kitchen aid mixer nicely. Very sturdy. Recommend if you don’t want to drag your mixer out all the time.

Let's face it, if you have to dig an appliance out of a cabinet, especially if it is a heavy appliance, you are probably not going to bother. Such has been the case with our Kitchen-Aid unit since it was stored on a back lower shelf. Wanting to do something about that, we started looking for a way to hide the unit in a cabinet, but make it easy to bring out to use. We found this Rev-A-Shelf unit and decided to give it a try.Unfortunately, I have not found a way to upload user pictures of their device, so I will just have to describe what we did. We had a narrow cabinet under the counter that this unit would just fit inside. Actually, we had to notch the sides just a small bit for the shelf to enter and exit the cabinet easily. The unit was fairly straight forward to install, but turned out to be a bit of a pain because we were putting it into a very tight cabinet. That did not leave much room to move around in. Still, it installed easily enough and it works GREAT!!The shelf lifts the mixer out easily and locks into place. The shelf is very stable and the mixer is very steady. When you are done, the unit easily releases and goes back down into the cabinet. Easy enough now that we no longer find excuses NOT to use it!!!!If you have the space to devote to this, I would highly recommend it!

The media could not be loaded. First, 1 star deducted because of two significant issues:a) the directions need significant improvement:- inconsistent between what's on the internet and what arrives in the box- lack a number of critical dimensions in the technical drawings; I had to scan it at a high resolution and then using the scale of that drawing, estimate other dimensions that I needed to know- the drawings themselves are too small; I'm not sure if the manufacturer is trying to save paper but those drawings need to be a full page each instead of <1/4- they fail to warn you about critical issues such as corner blocks and hinges in your cabinet, that might get in the way; the video online shows a piece-of-cake installation because the cabinet itself is unfinished and sitting out in the open; of course that is not at all real worldEven the standard installation is not an easy one (mine under a drawer is a lot harder) and (both) would benefit much more detailed instructions and dimensions than are given.(b) the left support, the spring-loaded mechanism that is supposed to pull the latch into the locked position is binding. It does not reliably pull the latch into the locked position. It is a construction flaw that could also cause a significant safety issue by allowing the loaded shelf to fall.I should probably deduct 2 full stars, however they earned a little bit of credit by having a technical person reply within 1 business day to an email with some helpful information.The rest of my review is best understood by viewing the video and the series of pictures. At completion, the lift is working correctly except for the issue noted above, even though it is loaded with a very heavy shelf and a very heavy mixer. The total weight of both combined is a little over 50 lb. You have to adjust the tension setting to account for this of course, but it is working correctly. The soft-close mechanism handles even that much weight.This could be used for other kitchen appliances like a bread-maker, slow-cooker, etc. that might otherwise not be used very often because they hide down in a cabinet.