Repair Ceramic Towel Bar Holder

Porcelain towel racks must be attached to the wall.

Repair ceramic towel bar holder.

Replace light duty plastic anchors with heavy duty anchors that will keep towel bars in place even after years of hard use. But the plastic bar can snap sag develop cracks fade or discolor as it ages and is exposed to cleaning chemicals. When installing a ceramic towel bar mount one post using the above method. A towel rack in the bathroom is an essential hardware item and range from porcelain and metal to plastic.

Follow the same process on all four sides until the ceramic towel rack holder releases. In this episode i go over how to easily repair a towel bar or towel rack that has come removed from the wall. Replace a cracked sagging or ugly towel bar. The towel rack is the kind you see in classic 1970s bathroom design.

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. Carefully position the bar in the first post s notch. Repair the holes where the.

I would like to utilize them for grab bars for my wife who needs help getting up from the john. The notch in the post for the towel bar must face the second post s hole. The builder gave us some ugly ceramic towel bar and toilet paper holder we decided to remove them and get the chrome one. No need for plaster repair or drywall etc.

The original bar is one piece and since the ends are locked into place you can t just slip in a new one. I need to know what kind of putty cement etc would be best to re affix it in this hole. 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. Ceramic towel bar anchor posts rarely fail.

Points awarded for best answer. Place a pry bar between the holder and the wall over the masking tape. Remove the post and. How to glue a porcelain towel rack.

The holder ends are very secure and in exactly the space i want to install the grab bar. Slip the other end of the bar into the second post s notch and install the post. Place the thinset inside the second hole and on the second post.