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Suitable fixings for bathroom handrails?

  • 21-11-2023 12:54am
    #1
    Tikka391
    Registered Users Posts: 321 ✭✭


    Hi all,


    I have just had a bathroom re tiled, it is used by my disabled brother. There were hand rails on the walls and I had to take them off to have the room re tiled.

    There are 12mm plywood walls that the tiles are on, and in the studwall cavity there are sheets of foam insulation.

    So, I didn't mark where the studs were before tiling over the walls so I can find them to screw direct into them. I have bought 2 makes of stud finder but they couldn't locate the wooden studs.

    I was then planning then on using the spring toggle type of fixing to mount the handrails, but because of the solid foam insulation they won't be able to open up when I push them through the whole to enable me to tighten them up to the back of the plywood wall.

    So I was wondering what does anyone recommend for good and strong fixings that i can use so that the solid foam insulation won't be a hindrance, bearing in mind they could have the full weight of a man pulling on them.

    Any recommendations for fixings and where I can get them would be great.

    Many thanks.



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  • #2
    tabby aspreme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,049 ✭✭✭tabby aspreme


    How thick is the foam, what type of wall is behind the foam, and was it regular Ply or Birch plywood you used



  • #3
    Tikka391
    Registered Users Posts: 321 ✭✭Tikka391


    It wasn't us that built the house, but I think it's normal ply.

    The sheets of foam are 100mm they fill the cavity and are good and tight to the back of the ply.

    The other side of the cavity is the plasterboard wall for the adjoining room.



  • #4
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,164 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    The tiles themselves are grounds. I would prefer to use regular red wall plugs and the tiles as grounds rather than using plasterboard fixings.

    The grab rails have six screw holes. This is a lot of screw holes. More than enough for tiles on plasterboard, assuming tiled correctly and not blobbed on. The only danger with tiles as the grounds is if bad tiler didn't tile correctly to the plasterboard. I work in 4 to 8 bathrooms each day I drill into tiles every day. Tiles are plenty strong enough.

    I've an 83 inch tv held to the wall with six screws.



  • #5
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,554 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121394524#Comment_121394524

    It should be easier to find the studs in the adjoining room and from that you'll be able to find them behind the tiles.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • #6
    Tikka391
    Registered Users Posts: 321 ✭✭Tikka391


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121394607#Comment_121394607

    Thanks for that, I'll do that so.



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