Command Broom Grippers Review After a Year of Daily Use

For three years, my broom and mop lived on the floor of our hall closet, leaned up against the water heater like a couple of drunk scarecrows. Every time I opened that door, the broom fell sideways into whatever coat I was reaching for. I finally bought the Command Broom Grippers last June, mostly because we rent this house and I wasn't about to ask our landlord if I could screw a metal bracket into the closet wall for a broom. A year later, I can tell you exactly what happened to those little plastic hooks, the adhesive underneath them, and whether they held up to a household that uses a broom and mop almost every single day.

This isn't a review written the week the package arrived. I put these up on the inside of our utility closet door in June of last year, and they're still there right now as I write this. Two dogs, a husband who tracks in more dirt than the dogs, and a kid who spills cereal like it's his job means that broom and mop come off that door and go back on it probably five times a day. If anything was going to expose a weak adhesive strip, it was going to be my house.

How I've Used These Over the Past Year

The pack comes with two gripper hangers and four adhesive strips, which is exactly enough for one broom and one mop if you're being efficient about it, or one broom and a dustpan if you'd rather split it that way. I mounted mine on the inside of our narrow hall closet door, about five feet up, spaced about eight inches apart so the broom head and the mop head wouldn't tangle every time I closed the door. That spacing mattered more than I expected. My first instinct was to put them closer together to save space, and I'm glad I measured the actual width of the broom bristles first instead of guessing.

Installation took me about ten minutes, and most of that was me wiping down the door with rubbing alcohol first because the instructions are very specific that these will not stick to a dusty or greasy surface. I pressed each strip on, held it for thirty seconds like the package says, and then walked away and did not touch the hooks for a full day even though the box only asks for an hour. I've been burned by adhesive hooks before, the cheap dollar-store kind that slide down a wall within a week, so I overcorrected on patience this time.

Since then, it's been completely hands-off. I hang the broom by the handle end, mop by its handle too, and both slide right into the little gripper claw with almost no effort. My six-year-old can do it himself now, which honestly is half the reason this actually gets used instead of the broom just living on the floor again within a month like every other system we've tried.

What's Actually in the Package

Each gripper hanger is a small white plastic arm with a spring-loaded claw at the top, similar in spirit to the kind of tool grippers you'd see mounted on a pegboard in a garage, except this one is built to hold onto a handle from any angle rather than needing you to slide it in from directly above. That turned out to be the detail that mattered most for us, because our closet is narrow and I can't always lift the mop straight up into a slot. I can angle it in sideways and the claw still catches it fine.

The adhesive strips are the same Command foam-and-adhesive strips you've probably seen holding picture frames or bathroom hooks. They're rated for a decent amount of weight, and a broom or mop handle is genuinely light, so I never worried about the weight limit the way I would with, say, a mounted shelf. What I did worry about was the shear stress of a kid yanking the broom sideways instead of lifting it straight out, since that's a different kind of pull than the strips are usually tested for. A year of that exact abuse later, they've held.

One thing worth knowing going in: the claw grip is spring-tensioned, so there's a very slight click every time you seat the handle into it. It's not loud, but if you have a household member who startles at small noises, it's a thing that exists. My husband still jokes about it every single time he grabs the broom, which tells you it's memorable if nothing else.

A Year Later: Do They Still Hold

This is the part most reviews never get to, because most reviews are written in the first week when everything still feels new. Mine is written in July, thirteen months after I first pressed those strips onto the door, through a full summer of humidity, a full winter with the heater running dry air constantly, and roughly 1,800 individual instances of someone in this house grabbing that broom without thinking twice about it.

The strips have not budged. I check them every couple of months out of habit more than concern at this point, pressing my thumb along the edges, and they're still flush against the door with no lifting at the corners, which is usually the first sign an adhesive strip is about to fail. I did have one gripper on a different project in our kitchen, a lighter-duty version holding a dish towel, that started peeling after about eight months in a spot that gets steam from the stove. The broom closet doesn't get that kind of humidity exposure, and I think that's the real variable here more than the strips themselves being weak.

The plastic claw itself has held its tension too. I was half expecting the spring mechanism to loosen up after a year of daily clicking, the way a lot of cheap plastic hardware does, but it still grips the broom handle just as firmly as it did the first week. The only cosmetic change is a faint gray smudge on the white plastic from where my husband's work-dusty hands grab it most days, which wipes off with a damp cloth in about five seconds.

The Closet Chaos They Actually Fixed

Before these, our closet floor was a genuine hazard. Broom, mop, a dustpan, a step stool, and a bag of extra vacuum bags all competing for the same twelve inches of floor space. Something fell out every single time that door opened, usually the broom, usually right as I had my hands full of laundry. I probably picked that broom up off the floor a hundred times before I finally bought these.

Now the broom and mop hang flush against the door itself, which freed up the entire floor of that closet for the step stool and a small bin. It sounds like a small thing, but reclaiming twelve inches of floor space in a closet that's maybe two feet wide total is not a small thing. It's the difference between a closet you dread opening and one you don't think about at all, which is really the whole goal of any organizing product, not just this one.

The tradeoff is that you're committing to that exact door spot for as long as the strips are up, since moving a Command strip once it's fully cured means starting over with a new strip if you want a clean hold again. I measured twice before I stuck anything, mostly because I didn't want to waste a strip figuring out the right height by trial and error.

What I Considered Before Buying These

Before I landed on these, I looked at a wall-mounted metal broom rack with multiple slots, the kind you screw into a garage stud. It holds more tools at once and probably would have looked tidier long-term, but it meant drilling into a wall in a house we don't own, and our lease is pretty specific about patching any holes before we move out. That killed it for me before I even got to comparing prices.

I also tried a freestanding broom stand for about two months before this, one of those weighted plastic bases with slots around the edge. It worked fine on paper, but it took up floor space I didn't have, and it tipped over twice when the dog brushed past it, sending the broom and mop clattering across the closet floor loud enough to send both dogs running. I gave it to my sister for her garage, where it actually has room to exist properly.

The adhesive route made the most sense for a narrow rental closet where every inch of floor space matters and drilling isn't an option. I did check today's price against the metal rack option one more time before committing, and even accounting for buying a second pack down the road if I ever want to add a dustpan hook, it's still the cheaper and far less permanent choice.

A year later, the thing I notice most isn't the hooks themselves. It's that I stopped picking that broom up off the floor.

Who This Is For

If you rent, or you just don't want to put a permanent hole in a closet wall for something as simple as a broom, this is about as low-risk as organizing solutions get. It's especially good for narrow closets where floor space is tight and every leaning tool becomes an obstacle course. It's also a solid pick if you've got kids old enough to help with chores, since the claw grip is easy enough for small hands to use without help.

It's worth it too if you've already been burned by a cheap dollar-store adhesive hook and are hesitant to trust another one. A full year of daily grabbing and yanking in my house is a heavier real-world test than most closet setups will ever see, and these came through it.

Who Should Skip It

If you're trying to organize a whole mudroom's worth of tools, brooms, mops, dustpans, and a Swiffer all at once, one pack won't cut it and you'll be buying multiples, which starts to add up compared to a single wall-mounted rack that holds everything in one shot. And if your closet surface is textured plaster, unfinished wood, or anything other than a smooth painted or laminate surface, know that Command strips need a clean flat surface to bond properly, so test one strip first before committing to a full setup. If you're not willing to give the adhesive its full cure time before hanging anything, you'll end up disappointed and blame the product for a step you skipped.