Replace old towel bars soap dishes corner shelves and other ceramic fixtures on ceramic tile walls without breaking the tile or cutting into the walls.
How to remove ceramic towel bar from wall.
This same procedure should work for similar items that are mounted to drywall.
Remove the old towel bar.
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If it s plastic built into the rack saw through the middle of the bar with a jigsaw.
Now that you ve got your supplies it s time to go to work by removing the old towel bar.
Remove the bar section of the towel rack by pulling one side in if it s a tension bar.
I had to remove my towel holder to put in a cabinet.
This is the best way to fix a hole in drywall from a towel rack being pulled out.
I easily pulled my bar out on its own since it was too short to begin with but if yours isn t you can remove it by sawing through the middle of it.
Or if the only problem is the towel bar itself it s missing it s broken or it s just plain ugly just replace it with a spring loaded one.
Currently everything is ceramic and is not just screwed into the wall.
Didn t know how these things were attached.
Our shower curtain tension rod slipped off the wall and the tension rod edge came down on the ceramic holder closest to the tub shower and broke it.
This video will hopefully help you by showing how a popped off ceramic towel rack holder can be reinstalled.
I would note though that it would be a good idea to run a utility knife around the outside of the fixtures so that when they get pulled off the wall a bunch of drywall paper doesn t come off with it nothing that drywall compound didn t fix.
Cut your new replacement bar to size.
This is how to remove a towel rack from drywall.
This video shows you how to do it yourself so that you can remount the towe.
While there is no general adhesive that contractors or builders use to install a towel bar it usually is a very strong material.