Repair Ceramic Towel Bar Holder

The towel rack is the kind you see in classic 1970s bathroom design.

Repair ceramic towel bar holder. Place the thinset inside the second hole and on the second post. Follow the same process on all four sides until the ceramic towel rack holder releases. The notch in the post for the towel bar must face the second post s hole. A towel rack in the bathroom is an essential hardware item and range from porcelain and metal to plastic.

Points awarded for best answer. Carefully position the bar in the first post s notch. Remove the post and. One of the ceramic porcelain towel holders fell off the wall leaving a square hole in the dry wall where it used to be this is how it was originally installed.

Place a pry bar between the holder and the wall over the masking tape. When installing a ceramic towel bar mount one post using the above method. Replace a cracked sagging or ugly towel bar. I too have these permanent ceramic towel bar holders.

Ceramic towel bar anchor posts rarely fail. I need to know what kind of putty cement etc would be best to re affix it in this hole. Porcelain towel racks must be attached to the wall. I would like to utilize them for grab bars for my wife who needs help getting up from the john.

The original bar is one piece and since the ends are locked into place you can t just slip in a new one. Replace light duty plastic anchors with heavy duty anchors that will keep towel bars in place even after years of hard use. The builder gave us some ugly ceramic towel bar and toilet paper holder we decided to remove them and get the chrome one. The holder ends are very secure and in exactly the space i want to install the grab bar.

In this episode i go over how to easily repair a towel bar or towel rack that has come removed from the wall. Slip the other end of the bar into the second post s notch and install the post. Loosen the setscrew that fastens the post to the mounting plate. It is interesting that i couldn t find a lot diy information on this topic so i decided to write one up to help other people.

How to glue a porcelain towel rack. Towel bars mounted on drywall need to be firmly anchored or they ll eventually fall off. Any suggestions for replacing them with a 1 diameter bar spring loaded.