Lowe’s has finally revealed pricing for their new ToughBuilt garage cabinet system.
Here’s what a sample configuration of the new system looks like with multiple ToughBuilt garage storage products combined.
While ToughBuilt StackTech modular tool boxes and accessories are now available outside of Lowe’s, most of the garage storage products are advertised as being exclusive to Lowe’s.
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For context, keep in mind that all of these products are – to my knowledge – feature “Ready to Assemble” construction.
ToughBuilt Garage Storage Products at Lowe’s (2025 Launch)
The following prices are accurate at the time of this posting.
28″ Wall Cabinet – $169
28″ Wall Cabinet with Plastic Totes – $179
48″ Floor Cabinet – $599
36″ Floor Cabinet – $499
56″ Hardwood Top Workbench – $329
28″ 4-Drawer Cabinet on Wheels – $479
28″ 2-Drawer Short Cabinet – $329
Collapsible Stackable Bin – $40
StackTech Wall-Mount Shelving (Launched Previously) – $142
Shipping and delivery fees start at $79.
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Lowe’s has not yet listed ToughBuilt garage accessories, such as the slotted pegboard back panels or accessories to go along with them.
Pricing Context
Here are some competitive options via Lowe’s:
ToughBuilt 48″ Floor Cabinet – $599
Gladiator 48″ Floor Cabinet – $440
Craftsman 48″ Floor Cabinet – $349
Kobalt 48″ Floor Cabinet – $519
And one competing option at Home Depot:
Husky 48″ Floor Cabinet – $449
Prices are accurate at the time of this posting, in some cases reflecting Memorial Day 2025 savings.
Robert
Stuart, nice comparison on the 48 in floor cabinets.
Can easily see the Toughbuilt looks sleeker, to me more appealing. But is the most expensive of those 48 in floor cabinets shown. Seems a hard path for them to break in with higher initial pricing.
SlowEng
I think a lot of the tough built stuff has some great ideas an is well thought out. However it exists at a price point way outside what I can justify spending on.
I use rack shelving (Northern Tool) and euro bins (Hudson exchange/Amazon) as the basic building blocks of my garage setup. Fast to break down the setup, easy to load up in moving truck.
Tools that don’t come out a lot live in tstak boxes ( spray guns, sanders, rivet guns, aircraft specific tool, or any thing special) and they get stacked on the rack as well.
Zac
I promise I’m not a shill for toughbuilt. I’m just as frustrated as everyone else regarding the slowness and availability of their offerings – but keep the following in mind:
If this stuff is built like the stacktech lineup, it’s built like a brick sh** house. This could justify the premium-ish price here.
The toughbuilt stuff in my opinion is leaps and bounds more “skookum” than any of the other options (Milwaukee included.)
So we shall see. That being said, there’s also something to say about potentially pricing themselves out. If people don’t want or can’t afford “premium” construction assuming it’s built like stacktech then it’s all moot – especially in a garage where things are sheltered and don’t move about much.
Stuart
With respect to garage cabinets, the better stuff is generally welded rather than self-assembled.
ToughBuilt hasn’t yet specified the thickness/gauge of the sheet metal, and that’s what’ll directly determine how strong and rigid it is.
You can’t make any assumptions when it comes to steel storage products.
I was sent Husky welded garage cabinets, and they were fantastic. I later bought a couple more and they were atrocious with bad fitment, poor quality, and terrible quality control. What happened? They shifted to a USA supplier that’s well known in the steel cabinet industry.
Habs
Who was making those more recent Husky cabinets in the US that were so bad? Are the MITUSA brands inferior to foreign product in this category?
Stuart
The packages had Sandusky origin info.
Home Depot and other retailers tend to change suppliers for their private label brand products fairly regularly. It’s possible that Home Depot awarded the contract to Sandusky saying “make this for us,” and everything was sloppy because it wasn’t a native Sandusky product.
I’m looking at the photos I sent Husky’s brand team, and I feel embarrassed for anyone at Home Depot or Sandusky who was connected to those products. There were gaps, drawers that were barely functional, and even the drawer liners weren’t cut right.
Here’s the initial list of problems I sent to Husky regarding heavy duty welded cabinets I purchased at retail from the Home Depot website:
That was 2-1/2 years ago and my impression of Husky was never quite the same. I stopped recommending Husky garage cabinets and storage products specifically because of this very bad experience. There wasn’t just one defect with the cabinets, each had multiple “how could they ship a product that looks like this?!” types of quality issues.
HD said that the cabinets were moved to a new supplier and they were “working with them to get these up to our quality standards.” AFTER they were already shipping to retail customers?!
Since then, I have refused to knowingly purchase anything from Edsal, Sandusky, or Muscle Rack.
Adam
Those Husky 48″ RTA cabinets were going for $270/ea just a few months ago. It seemed like they were trying to clear them out because about 2 months after they hit that price, they were listed as NLA. Strangely, the red versions were generally priced $100 less than the black ones, and even weirder, the 48″ were consistently cheaper than the 36″ and 24″ models. I’ve got (2) 48″ red cabinets in my garage now and I’m happy with them for the $270 I paid, but not sure they’d be worth it for an extra $180 each. The glossy finish is very easily scratched and the 48″ width really tests the limits of 24ga sheet metal’s structural rigidity. Oh and the plastic protection film they put on BEFORE the sheet metal was bent into shape was a serious pain to remove.
Related tip:
To alleviate some of the noise and “cheap feeling” of light duty RTA cabinets, I like to apply patches of automotive sound dampening butyl foil. 10 sq/ft should be enough to cover the important parts of a 48″ cabinet. It drastically cuts down on the obnoxious clanging you’d normally get when interacting with long stretches of thin sheet metal.
ElectroAtletico
Still waiting for the folding workbench to come back on stock at the Lowe’s shelves!!
Ditto for all their other hand tools (which are better than the Klein stuff).
Stuart
Probably not happening again anytime soon. They sold well 2 holiday seasons ago, and then Lowe’s raised the price. They didn’t appear last holiday season or anytime since winter 2023, at least not that I recall seeing.
Trevor
The stackable bins/totes look interesting.
Stuart
Yes, and no.
Collapsible crates are nothing new, and while I appreciate the concept here I’d want to see more accessories such as StackTech compatibility or a 4-wheel dolly like I have for crates I bought a decade ago.
I’m not loving the idea of having to grab and remove an overhead bin from a wall shelf to glance at the contents.
JML
These are intriguing. I need units like this for my home basement tool storage, and the smaller size would be ideal. I wish I could see them in person, but I guess I’ll have to wait for some reviews. I hope that the assembly of the units yields sturdy and problem-free cabinets (because these are not going into a garage, I’d have to get units that can easily be brought through a regular doorway and be assembled in place).
I was leaning towards the Husky cabinets, but your reaction to the new production has definitely taken those off the potential purchase list (my son has Husky cabinets from 2+ years ago and they were problem-free).
Stuart
I’d hope they ironed out the issues by now. Even if not, Home Depot’s return process was fairly painless.
Clint
Any word on when they are comin out with the Transporter? Being a truck guy, if they had that out, I’d drop Milwaukee like a rock. Lifting those boxes in and out of the bed is getting old (or I am)
Stuart
Nope.