How To Remove Ceramic Bathroom Towel Bar

Short video on how to remove standard ceramic bathroom fixtures.

How to remove ceramic bathroom towel bar.

This is how to remove a towel rack from drywall. If you would like to re use the soap dish do your best to remove the soap dish intact. It s important to sand and sp. Even that tricky towel bar with no set screws is covered.

If you re doing it just so you can paint around it and you plan to replace it the job is simple if you want the towel rack gone forever the job might be a bit more complicated particularly if the rack is glued to the wall. But the plastic bar can snap sag develop cracks fade or discolor as it ages and is exposed to cleaning chemicals. Now that you ve got your supplies it s time to go to work by removing the old towel bar. The towel bar and toilet paper holder are glued to the wall simply pull them off with your.

Remove the old towel bar. Removing a ceramic soap dish from ceramic tile can be done in one of two ways. Otherwise a hammer and a heavy flat head screwdriver will get the job done. A demonstration of how to tighten up loose towel bars or to remove them for painting or other needs.

Replace a cracked sagging or ugly towel bar. A remodel of your bathroom may require you to remove a towel rack. The original bar is one piece and since the ends are locked into place you can t just slip in a new one. While there is no general adhesive that contractors or builders use to install a towel bar it usually is a very strong material.

Remove the bar section of the towel rack by pulling one side in if it s a tension bar. Ceramic towel bar anchor posts rarely fail. 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. Removing the soap dish and keeping it intact or removing it in pieces.

If it s plastic built into the rack saw through the middle of the bar with a jigsaw.