Stainless Steel Grab Bar 46 cm, Rustproof Bathroom Safety Rail

Somebody in the house is already pulling themselves up off the toilet by the towel rail. That rail is held to a tile by two plastic plugs, and it was never designed to take a person.

What Are the Key Features of This Rustproof 46 cm Stainless Steel Grab Bar?

• Stainless steel, and Rustproof is the only feature named - in a room that is soaked twice a day and cleaned with bleach, the metal is the whole product, and a coated tube that corrodes under a chip fails invisibly on the part you are leaning on.
• 46 cm, the shorter of the two lengths sold - a one-movement bar for standing up off the WC or stepping over the bath rim, and short enough to land on the strip of wall beside the WC where a long rail has no clear run at all.
• Sold in Silver and in White - silver is bare metal for grey, granite and marble-look tiling, white disappears against a white-tiled wall and white sanitaryware, so the bathroom keeps looking like a bathroom rather than a hospital ward.
• Clean it with whatever is under the sink - steel takes bleach, Dettol and a scouring cloth, with no painted or plastic skin to go yellow, chalky or tacky under a wet hand.
• The wall carries the load, not the bar - the bar is quoted at 120 kg, so fix it into solid masonry with anchors rated for the job and have it installed by somebody who does this work.

Where Can You Mount This 46 cm Grab Bar?

• On the side wall beside the WC, where a hand comes down and pushes the body up
• At the edge of the bath, mounted upright at about chest height
• At the entry to a shower tray, for the single step over a rim onto wet glazed tile
• Beside a step, or in a laundry corner
• In a home with an elderly or pregnant user, someone recovering from surgery, or anyone with reduced mobility

Why Choose Stainless Steel Over a Painted or Plated Grab Bar?

• The metal is the whole product - no motor and no mechanism, just a tube and two flanges holding somebody who is already unsteady.
• A chipped coating rusts out of sight - a scouring pad or a knock from a bucket lets water under the skin, on the exact part you decided to trust.
• Stainless steel and Rustproof are one fact - the material and the only feature named say the same thing twice, not two selling points.
• 46 cm is a one-movement bar - it lands in the gap between the pan and the corner, where a long rail has no clear run of wall at all.
• The wall carries the load, not the bar - the 120 kg is a figure about the bar, not the wall it is fixed to.

Details

Material & Build

• Stainless Steel - and on a product that is a tube and two flanges it is the whole specification.
• Rustproof - the only feature named for this bar, and the direct consequence of the material above.
• Finish, unresolved: the material is also described elsewhere as chrome, which names a plating rather than a base metal. This page goes with stainless steel and the conflict is flagged rather than smoothed over - which is also why no claim is made that rust cannot start under a chip.
• Stated load: 120 kg. This is a figure about the bar itself, not about the wall it is fixed to.
• Wall-mounted and screw-fixed.

Dimensions

• 46 cm - the bar's stated length.
• Tube diameter is what decides whether a small or arthritic hand can close around it.
• Wall projection is what decides whether there is room to get a hand behind the bar.
• Hole centres and flange diameter: the hole spacing is what decides whether the bar lands on solid masonry or on a hollow partition, so measure the clear run of wall before you order and check what is behind the tile.

Colours

• Silver on this page - bare metal, the one to choose against grey, granite or marble-look tiling.
• Also sold in White - it disappears into a white-tiled wall and against white sanitaryware.

Care

• Wipe with a household bathroom cleaner or diluted bleach and dry off - no special product is required, and there is no painted or plastic skin to go yellow or tacky.

Specifications