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Yeah, if they're correctly installed, anchored into the studs, they don't "just fall off", but many people just put molly's in the drywall and those don't last.
Really? By a show of hands, who the heck mounts a towel bar on studs? A grab bar maybe but a towel bar? They're made to hold towels, not for holding up rugrats or pulling yourself up off the bowl.
All of mine in my house are in the studs. Whenever possible, we anchor at least one end into a stud when building a new house or fixing them in a rental.
Just because they aren't supposed to be for kids hanging off, or helping you get off the toilet, doesn't mean people don't use them for that. Doorknobs aren't supposed to be for kids to hang off of either, but kids do it all the time.
Really? By a show of hands, who the heck mounts a towel bar on studs? A grab bar maybe but a towel bar? They're made to hold towels, not for holding up rugrats or pulling yourself up off the bowl.
Landlords mount towel bars on studs because tenants do use towel bars as sporting equipment, use towel bars as grab bars, and have rugrats that chin on the bars.
I moved into a decent apartment a while ago. After about a week, the bathroom towel bar did indeed just fall off.
I'm a good tenant, BTW.
They do that. The tension screws loosen up.
Edited to add: I notice this ^^ has been covered.
There is no way to attach both ends of a towel bar to a stud. I so disliked the problem with towel bars attached with dry wall anchors pulling out that when we built our current home each bar and toilet paper holder was backed with a wooden board, edges routed to match the cabinets. The boards attach to the studs and the fixture to the board. I have never had a bar pull out. An advantage of this is that wet towels are farther from the wall, letting air circulate and dry them faster.
I do still have to tighten a tension screw every once in a while, usually for the paper holder.
Last edited by suzy_q2010; 10-24-2014 at 10:28 PM..
I generally install 16 inch towel bars... pick up a stud on each side.
On my remodels I will add backing under the drywall.
Towel bars tend to be one of those recurring problem areas.
The last one was well anchored with 75# wall anchors for commercial use... unfortunately, this resulted in a section "Book" size drywall being ripped away and the drywall was still attached to the towel brackets!
Tenant was a rather large women and she slipped getting out of the tub and grab the towel bar going down... and she said the towel bar hit her on the head too!!!
Whenever feasible, I install grab bars anchored to studs for towel bar duty...
Had a call today from a tenant renting one half of a duplex...
She said her Waste Management Garbage can needs to be sanitized... and was hoping I could send someone over... because it smells... this has been her exclusive can for a couple of years and owned be the garbage company!
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