Feel Safer in Your Bathroom by Installing Grab Bars to Your Shower Wall
The shower can be a very scary place when all those soap suds start to accumulate on the floor of your shower. One way to feel safer in the shower is to install a grab bar to the wall. Here are the tools you will need and directions to properly install a grab bar in your tiled bathroom shower.
Once you have acquired a grab bar you need to collect the tools needed to install it. The following are the tools you will need:
Philips-head screwdriver Drill 1/8 inch masonry bit or glass and tile bit Stud finder or a length of wire Tape measure Silicone caulk Sharp awl or carbide glass and tile drill bit Wood bit, 1/16 narrower than the size of mounting screws
The first thing that you will need to do to install your grab bar is to locate a wall stud. If you have access to a stud finder this will help greatly. Run the stud finder along the wall until a wall stud is located and mark the spot with a fine point marker. If you do not have an electronic stud finder, no worries, just take a 1/8 masonry bit or glass and tile bit and simply drill a hole into the grout. Then take your length of...