Knowing Your Towel Bar Weight Limitations

Do you know what one of the most frequentlydecorative bars, enjoy picking something that goes
problematic thing is in a bathroom? A lot of peoplewith your style. But if you have a bathroom that
are tend to think things like the toilet but the realgets used often, by guests, or even more
culprit is often a towel bar. Towel bars can comeimportantly, by children, you need to make sure any
loose, break a piece, have fittings come out, etc., etc.towel bar you purchase can handle the amount of
It may seem that every time you're turning aroundstress it's going to get.
some part of your towel bar is slipping or just notGenerally, you're going to want to go with one of
working right. Well the problem may not be the towelthree kinds of towel bars. These are screw in towel
bar. It may be that you don't have the right kind ofbars, over door towel bars, or removable bars.
bar for the work you're asking it to do.Screw in towel bars are a kind that usually have 2-4
All pieces of bath hardware come with certainscrews to attach them to the wall. If you're looking
capabilities. Usually they all have weight capabilities.for something really heavy duty, you're going to
What this means is the amount of weight that theywant to not just attach them to any part of the
can hold or the pressure they can handle being putwall, but look for stunds in the wall to attach them to
on them. When it comes to these bars there aredo give them some extra support against the
two ways this adds up. First is the weight of thepressure they're going to be put under. Over the
towel itself. For hand towels this is negligible. But fordoor bars can handle a lot of stress. The reason for
bath towels heavy, high-end towels can be a couplethis is they have all of the weight of the door
of pounds apiece. Now add to this the pressure andworking in their favor. In the case of these towel
weight you're going to be exerting on the bar eachbars, a couple of what are usually metal clips go over
time you pull on one of those towels.the top of the door. These clips have rods running
Once you realize the weight strains you are puttingdown one side of them that holds the towel rack
on the bars you may understand why it's now moreonto the back of the door. Finally, removable towel
important to understand the weight capabilities ofracks may not always hold up to the pressure put on
towel bars before you ever purchase and installedthem, but they won't do any major damage to your
them.wall if they are pulled down. These are towel racks
The good news is that there are bars can handlethat are held in place with a flexible and removable
pretty much any type of pressure you want to putadhesive. You can stick them on the wall and they
on them. You just need to make sure you have thewill hold up to a lot of pressure, but if the pressure is
right style for your home.too much they will peel off. The good news is that
If you're not going to use too much pressure youthey can be easily put right back up again without
could pretty much use anything on the market. Fromanything being worse for the wear.
single screw hand towel racks to pretty, delicate and