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RE: Shower Grab Bars for Built-in Shower - barnowl - 11-19-2024

(11-19-2024, 09:30 AM)crokett™ Wrote: Thanks.  That is a thought.  what's on the other side of the wall for me is a bedroom wall so something like that you would see.    I never thought of drywall as structural, but I guess it could hold anchored like that.

I'll share a story with you. For what it's worth. We both know screws into studs is best, but......

When we moved into our house in 1987, I was carrying stuff down the stairs. I slipped, grabbed the hand rail, and the bottom anchor ripped right out of the wall. Whoever installed it has used a plastic wall insert for the bottom bolt, as there was no stud at the correct location. The top bolt did go into a stud.

I fixed it with a piece of threaded rod through the wall, (into the garage) culminating on an electrical plate as a wide washer similar to what I showed. 

It's been like that for 37 years, and I grab that railling every day when using the stairs.


RE: Shower Grab Bars for Built-in Shower - joe1086 - 11-19-2024

I'm impressed Barn can find a pic from 13 years ago.


RE: Shower Grab Bars for Built-in Shower - crokett™ - 11-25-2024

We looked at the shower and now that he is home from the rehab place did some testing. I am going to install the bar just outside the shower door. There's a stud there since the wall forms a corner. That will save me having to open the wall up.


RE: Shower Grab Bars for Built-in Shower - barnowl - 11-26-2024

Good to hear.