How To Remove Ceramic Towel Bar Holder

This is how to remove a towel rack from drywall.

How to remove ceramic towel bar holder.

But the plastic bar can snap sag develop cracks fade or discolor as it ages and is exposed to cleaning chemicals. 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. Now that you ve got your supplies it s time to go to work by removing the old towel bar. Replace a cracked sagging or ugly towel bar.

Remove the bar section of the towel rack by pulling one side in if it s a tension bar. 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. If it s plastic built into the rack saw through the middle of the bar with a jigsaw. The original bar is one piece and since the ends are locked into place you can t just slip in a new one.

It s important to sand and sp. This same procedure should work for similar items that are mounted to drywall. The builder gave us some ugly ceramic towel bar and toilet paper holder we decided to remove them and get the chrome one. Cut your new replacement bar to size.

Short video on how to remove standard ceramic bathroom fixtures. 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. Ceramic towel bar anchor posts rarely fail. Doing little damage to your drywall when removing your towel bar will depend on how strong the adhesive is that is on it.

The towel bar and toilet paper holder are glued to the wall simply pull them off with your.