How To Remove Ceramic Towel Bar Holder

Cut your new replacement bar to size.

How to remove ceramic towel bar holder.

The towel bar and toilet paper holder are glued to the wall simply pull them off with your. It s important to sand and sp. Now that you ve got your supplies it s time to go to work by removing the old towel bar. Doing little damage to your drywall when removing your towel bar will depend on how strong the adhesive is that is on it.

Short video on how to remove standard ceramic bathroom fixtures. It is interesting that i couldn t find a lot diy information on this topic so i decided to write one up to help other people. Most towel racks have hex screws that you remove with a 1 8 inch hex key but some have small phillips screws for which you. 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.

Remove the old towel bar. The original bar is one piece and since the ends are locked into place you can t just slip in a new one. If it s plastic built into the rack saw through the middle of the bar with a jigsaw. Replace a cracked sagging or ugly towel bar.

The builder gave us some ugly ceramic towel bar and toilet paper holder we decided to remove them and get the chrome one. Ceramic towel bar anchor posts rarely fail. Remove the bar section of the towel rack by pulling one side in if it s a tension bar. While there is no general adhesive that contractors or builders use to install a towel bar it usually is a very strong material.

This is how to remove a towel rack from drywall.