How Do You Fasten A Loose Towel Bar?
Loose towel bars are one of those little aggravations in life. Kids try to chin themselves on towel bars and older folks will use them as grab bars, but either activity is guaranteed to result in a loose towel bar. Unfortunately, fixing a towel bar can be a frustrating and time consuming experience, but here are some ideas for making sure your towel bar is tight. Towel bars are often 24, 26 or 28 inches long, while wall studs are usually on 16-inch centers, so you can’t install your towel bar directly into a stud at each end (which would be the ultimate). However installing one end into a stud and the other using a “good” wall fastener (a “Molly Bolt”) will help. Use a stud finder to find the studs in your wall and mark them. Determine where you want to position your towel bar (make sure one end is directly over a stud). Drill a pilot hole through the drywall, directly into the underlying wall stud. Loosely fasten one end of the towel bar to the stud, and then position the other end so
