Decko #38170 24" Chrome Towel Bar

If you are attaching the towel bar to existing trim on the wall, it's fine as packaged. The instructions say to only use the included screws, but that's not going to usually work out. If you need to screw through the wall to studs, the provided screws are too short and are impossible if your wall is not made of drywall (mine isn't drywall). In that case, you have a few installation choices.

1) According to the included instructions, you could buy those expanding anchors things to attach the bar directly to drywall (I couldn't even do that since my wall is like cement coated wood). This is a terrible idea for a towel bar that would hold heavy towels: I can guarantee it would loosen and eventually fall off leaving big holes in your drywall. The angular shape of the bar kind of grips the towels as you pull them off, creating even more force to rip the bar off the wall. I can see why anchors were not included.

2) Buy some trim made of wood, and finishing nails, making sure you nail through the wall material to the studs, then use the provided screws to mount the bar to the new trim.

3) If your studs happen to be 24" apart (rare) then use longer wood or drywall screws to screw through the wall material directly to the studs behind. If your studs are not 12 or 24 inches apart (they are usually 18 inches apart) and there's no other wood behind the drywall (or whatever your wall is made of), you'll have to use another method.

4) In my case, the studs are covered by wood which is covered by a thin layer of a cement type of material. I was able to just use drywall screws (that I happened to already have) to screw through the cement to the wood without worrying too much about the location of the studs, although I did put one side over a stud to be safe.

The instructions don't say it, but seems pretty obvious to me that the towel bar should be positioned with the screw holes on top since most of the force will be downward. Seems like they should have put one screw hole on top and one on bottom for each side, or 4 screw holes on each side 2 top 2 bottom, but with only two holes on each side and both in the same orientation, put the holes on top (so unfortunately, your screws will be very visible). If you put the screws on the bottom, the downward pull of the towels would tend to pry the unscrewed top away from the wall.

I bought this bar as a replacement for one in my girlfriend's house, it was built in the 50's and this was an exact duplicate. The bar works fine.

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Gave these 4 stars because the product is sturdy and reliable. I bought these after I purchased my fixer up house. There were no towel or toilet paper holders in either bathroom. These are not for an up to date decked out bath but are great for someone needing a solution until they can get the good stuff.

A side note, not good for old dry walls like 70's 80's. Dry wall from then seems very brittle and doesn't hold anchors very well.

I recommend these to anyone waiting to fix up a bath that is old.

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