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Posted by Roger Taylor on July 12, 2005, 12:43 pm
> In our upstairs bath we have the kind of towel rods that are held into
> the sheet rock by two screws. They keep breaking because people ,
> myself included, keep leaning on them accidentaly and they pull right
> out of the wall and then there is nothing left to put them back into
> because the sheet rock gets pulled out.
>
> Is there anything more heavy duty I can use so this won't keep
> happening? Our downstairs bath has the towel rods cemented to the tile
> but our upstairs bath doesn't have tile on the walls so that's not an
> option and the walls aren't in good enough shape to tile.
I relocate such rods so the ends line up with studs. First, use a stud
finder to locate studs, use fine nails to confirm their location, then find
a towel rod that may be cut so the brackets will exactly bridge the studs,
usually 16 inch centers. Also, select brackets that have narrow-set screws,
so you don't miss the stud altogether when you mount it. Over time, towel
brackets on sheetrock will fail, and I tend to use spreading screw-in wall
anchors only for lighter duty stuff, like pictures and whatnot shelves. If
you put the towel rods on studs, you can practically do chin-ups on
them......
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