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Grab bar package, three bars

Three bars, placed as a set: the entry to the shower, inside it, and beside the toilet. One visit, one price.

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One flat fee to find out what is wrong. You are told it on the phone before anyone is dispatched, and it comes off the job if you hire us. Read our Plain Terms

A shower stripped back to the studs, the valve set and the floor prepared
The moment to put blocking in the walls. Southern California.

What the work is

Bars work as a system. The one that matters most is usually not the one people ask for first: getting in and out of the shower is where the reach is longest and the surface is worst.

Doing three at once means one visit, one lot of making good, and one set of decisions taken together rather than a bar added each time something happens.

Each one still gets placed for how you move, not to a template.

What is included

  • A walk-through of how you use the room before anything is decided
  • Three bars, each fixed to blocking or a rated structural anchor
  • Load testing each one
  • Making good around every fixing
  • A written note of what each one is rated for

What is not

  • Hollow-wall fixings
  • Re-tiling
  • A fourth bar, unless you ask, in which case it is priced the same way

What holds them

A grab bar has to take a 250 pound force. That force is carried by what is behind the wall, not by the bar and not by the fixings on the box. Tile and drywall do not hold it; blocking or a proper structural anchor does.

Doing it before you need it

The cheapest time to put blocking in a wall is when the wall is already open. If a bathroom change is anywhere in your plans, ask for blocking then even if you do not want bars yet.

The guide below is honest about what the evidence does and does not show on whether changing the house prevents falls. It is worth reading before anyone sells you a package on fear.

What to ask anyone quoting this, us included

  • Where are you putting each one, and why there?
  • What is each one fixed into?
  • Can you test them in front of me?

What we can show you in writing

Every line traces to a document we read in full. The number after a sentence points to the research below.

  • At an ordinary alcove tub the published layout is four bars, not one: two on the back wall, one on the control end wall at the front edge of the tub, and one at the head end. The back wall and control end bars are 24 inches long at minimum; the head end bar is 12.1
  • Height is 33 to 36 inches, measured to the top of the gripping surface. HUD's blocking guidance measures to the centerline instead, which is how the two numbers get mixed up and how blocking ends up an inch low. We measure to the top of the bar and say so on the estimate.1
  • The Access Board notes that ICC A117.1, the standard the building code points at, asks for a vertical bar at showers and tubs where the ADA Standards do not. Neither one governs a private house. We mention it because the vertical bar is the one people actually pull on to stand up, and it is usually the one missing.1
  • In a shower the published layout keeps the horizontal bars at one height and no more than 6 inches from the adjoining walls. Bars at three different heights are the usual sign that each one was added on its own day, by whoever was there.1

Where this comes from

Every line above traces to a document we read in full. The number after a sentence points to the research below; hover it for the section. If you find a line wrong, tell us and we will fix it and say so.

  1. Accessible construction research, September 2026 Compiled from the US Access Board's ADA and ADAAG texts and the 1984 Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards, the Code of Federal Regulations, HUD's Fair Housing design guidance, the Utah Code, ASME and ASTM standard scopes, the Tile Council of North America on slip resistance, and the CDC and National Institute on Aging. 4 sections cited. Hover a number above for the section.

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