Grab this!

[Car-Guy]

I installed them in our master bath about 10 years ago, after my DW had a "hospital stay" and I wanted her to have them at home as she recovered. Now "we both use them" Money very well spent!

 

[skyking1]

Yes, that's my problem as I'm unsure where my studs are located behind the tile. I haven't tried a stub finder, but I would be surprised if it gave reliable readings.

Mark, what I do in your case is to go into the next room or closet or even outside, and find the studs there and do some careful tape measuring.
Also use the stud finder all the way up near the ceiling, if you are fortunate and there is no tile up there. Then you can drill a very small hole to confirm stud center and a dab of spackle and paint and that's gone.

 

[Mark1]

Mark, what I do in your case is to go into the next room or closet or even outside, and find the studs there and do some careful tape measuring.
Also use the stud finder all the way up near the ceiling, if you are fortunate and there is no tile up there. Then you can drill a very small hole to confirm stud center and a dab of spackle and paint and that's gone.

Yes, all great ideas. Unfortunately, I'm most interested in installing a bar on the wall that is an exterior wall with a brick exterior. Also, the wall tile go all of the way to the ceiling on all four shower walls. I guess I could find the studs outside the shower on the exterior wall and assume that the spacing 16"/24" just stays the same as it goes behind the shower tile. I probably need to do something, otherwise someday I might regret it.

When we moved into the house DW told me she thought the shower floor tile were kind of slick. I didn't think so. The second time she mentioned it, I couldn't believe that I didn't take any action the first time. At that time, I spent over a hundred bucks on an industrial 3'X5' slip guard at Uline, which has worked very well.

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[Koolau]

Shower drain area about an inch lower than the rest of the bathroom. But the contractor goofed something up. Water falling from the overhead shower head landed far enough from the drain that it flowed away from the drain across the bathroom. Had to build up a little dam of towels to keep the water going to the shower drain.

It is written! Contractors always seem to have an area too high in a drain area. My lab at Megacorp (brand new build) had a drain in case anyone ever overflowed a 500 liter stock pot. The practice was to turn on the water and go do something else as the vessel filled. The drain was (wait for it) the HIGHEST point on the entire floor of perhaps 10,000 square feet. SO when a dunderheaded technician overflowed the stock pot, water ran down the halls and down the stairways before the first drop ever went down the drain.

Twice!

 

[aaronc879]

I couldn't care less about my shower looking like "an old person's shower". I care about safety. I have had a shower chair in my shower ever since I broke my hip at age 36, had a second hip surgery 3 months later then had a total hip replacement a year later at age 37. I couldn't care less about being a 45 year old with a chair in their shower, I care about not falling in the shower.

 

[braumeister]

Doorless showers are common in hotels, especially in Europe, and people complain that if the wall/glass ends too close to the shower head, water splashes out too much.

Very true. I've stayed in small town hotels in Germany where it was absolutely impossible to keep the bathroom floor from flooding next to the shower.