Interesting installation

[bill_schubert]

This is the kind of thing I'd have gotten a friend of mine to do who did odd jobs for $85 an hour.  Since he did odd jobs all the time he had tools and skills and practice problem solving which most home projects are all about anyway.

Dana wanted a safety bar in the shower and in the bath tub.  Since it would appear that we're in this house UFN it makes sense.  I went to our local Ace Hardware hoping to expand the local economy by using a smaller, local store but they were too busy with their phones and with talking to each other to stop and help me think through the problem.  So as usual, I went online and found all the expert advice I needed.

It takes a little thinking but lining them up with the studs is not actually desired and requires special equipment to find the studs through the ceramic.  The one piece of advice that Ace Hardware gave me turned out to be dead wrong.  The studs are 16" apart but there is not really any way to find out where that spacing starts so it is a bit of a crap shoot that I barely won.  I was trying to find two places in between two 16" studs to drill holes.  The odds were with me.  But, of course, I found one of the studs and half my hole was blocked by a stud.  I got a wood drill and drilled out enough of the stud to allow me to get the huge anchor in but it was a PIA.  Fortunately all that is hidden behind the fixture, which is rock solid and looks like I knew what I was doing:

Now for the one in the bath.  Fingers crossed I can miss the stud again.