Installing a Bar with Expandable Anchors: A Step-by-Step Guide

The installation process begins with choosing the right bar for your needs. The author mentions that they are trying to get a specific piece of hardware into place, but it's not entirely clear what that hardware is. However, they explain that the bar has expandable sections, which allows it to slide into place on either side.

The author notes that one end of the bar has slightly different diameters than the other, and these differences are compensated for by using specialized pieces that fit onto the wall. These pieces must be carefully matched to the correct size in order to ensure proper installation.

To begin the process, the author drills holes through tile to create anchor points for screws. They emphasize the importance of keeping the bit cool while drilling through tile, and use a simple drilling function rather than a hammer drill.

As they continue with the installation, the author becomes frustrated with the small pieces that fit into the larger bar pipe. These pieces are intended to keep the bar from scratching surfaces as it slides in and out, but they don't stay in place easily.

To overcome this challenge, the author notes that each end of the bar must be placed on the correct side or size. They also emphasize the importance of getting all the pieces in place before attempting to hang the bar itself.

With the help of an extra set of hands, the author is able to complete the installation process more quickly and easily. However, they note that even with additional support, the process can still be challenging, especially when it comes to balancing the weight of the bar and ensuring that it remains securely in place.

As the author works to complete the installation, they encounter a few challenges along the way. They struggle with getting one screw started, and have to adjust their approach as they realize that they had placed the pin in the wrong spot. However, with patience and persistence, they are able to overcome these obstacles and ultimately complete the project.

One of the key takeaways from this experience is the importance of taking the time to carefully match each piece to its correct size and placement. This ensures that the installation process goes smoothly, and that the final product is secure and functional. The author also emphasizes the value of having an extra set of hands when working on projects like this, as it can make all the difference in completing the task efficiently.

The author concludes by noting that even simple tasks like installing a bar with expandable anchors can be challenging if not approached carefully. However, with patience, persistence, and the right tools, anyone can complete a project like this successfully.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi I'm Shannon from house improvements calm and in today's video I'm going to show you how to hang a curved shower bar curtain bar okay so the process is fairly similar whether it's straight or curved this one happens to be curved but so all these shower bars are going to be have a little bit of adjustment in in them for width of your room basically most tubs are five feet I think these bars will do up to a five and a half foot tub so they do have some adjustment to them they're pretty simple kind of the first thing that need to determine is what you want for a height of this bar right so what I do I find that most curtain you know shower curtains that you buy it might say it's 70 inches by 60 inches or whatever a 70 inches tall I find that isn't always the exact length of what they are so what I like to do is just take it take it right out of its package kind of hold it up get an idea on the front edge of the tub because you don't want it dragging on the floor I like to have it usually around you know four to eight inches off the floor so I actually physically hold the curtain up kind of see where it lays against the tub and then allow because your curtains gonna have you know those fancy hooks too right so you need to allow a little bit for those if you have the hooks just hold it up by the hook and that will help you determine the center mark of your shower rod for height so once you have that then you can measure off top of your tub to the mark that you had and put the thing same thing over on the other side you can see I put tape we've got a tile wall so I just put tape in the general area so I can do all my marking on the tape so now we've got our height next thing you want to do is get your your distance in now with the curved bars with a straight bar that's pretty basic right you you know pretty much you want it over top the the front edge of the tub with the curve barré if you if you put these out too far you know sure you get lots of room nice room inside of here but it may crowd your cabinets or whatever you're not in this case we're gonna have a toilet right here so if you get that curvature out too far and the curtain is only half open or whatever it's gonna be hanging out kind of close to the toilet so usually what I do is I set the bar you know on the edge of the tub and get a bit of a feel for it I like the bar to be outside of the tub but just outside and that gives me a bit of an idea then here how far you and I want to be on the wall so you're still going to get the benefit of the rounded curved shower bar or curtain bar to give you the extra room in the shower but it's not going to be too obstructive outside of the shower okay so in our case in my case anyways that was 3 and 3/4 now something else because this bathroom was a complete gut I actually put framing in the wall in this general area so that I could screw these little brackets right into wood blocking behind the tile and the drywall and everything you might not have that luxury and most of these kits actually send some style of hall wall anchor okay so those will be in there if not you'll just need some wood screws the right size on length to reach back to whatever blocking you put in there if you've got the chance to do the blocking I would do it that way it's gonna be better in my opinion okay so once you've determined your height of the rod find your little brackets that have to go on there and determine your location to them and mark your holes like I did sorry I'll show you over here like I did here so I marked one and I just simply held the bracket up lined up to my mark and Mark the other spot okay with the curved bars there's going to be kind of a right and a left to these little brackets because the inside of them has to be sloped a little bit till all the the bar to go in the way it needs to also there's a right and left because which were my gonna put this I'm gonna go this way sorry no I'm gonna go this way because the bar I'm just trying to get that in there good because the bar is expandable it slides simply just slides inside of each other so the two halves of the bar are slightly different diameters so these little pieces that go on the wall are obviously different sizes too so you just need to make sure you got the right bracket for the proper end of the bar that it's going to and then mount them on the wall the right directions okay so we need to get these all on the bar itself before you mount it in place actually let's drill the holes first sorry then it's already I already drilled that side as you noticed I'm drilling through tile so I'm using the appropriate bit to do that job and I'll drill my two holes through the tile and then that way I can insert the screw and screw it back into the wood blocking that I have in there when you're drilling through tile you want to have some water hand you just keep your bit cool and I'm not using a hammer drill function at the drill just simply the drilling drilling function that's one so they'll just remove this tape there a little bit so you want to make sure that you're drilling that hole even a little bit oversized so your screw easily goes through it because you're not screwing into the tile you're screwing into whatever's behind it or if you're using these expandable anchors that holes got to be big enough that that anchor will slip right through in this case my hole wouldn't have been for these so okay so we've we've got our bar here this I don't know if you can see what I'm struggling with here this little piece right here just goes fits into that larger bar pipe there and it's just really to kind of keep from scuffing this when you're sliding it in and out but it's kind of a pain to because it doesn't really stay there okay so like I said you've got to get your your ends on the appropriate end or the right size I should say and the right direction get all your pieces on maybe if I put this on here it will be held on by that piece of plastic kind of fighting this down there okay this package there's a couple little pins so these pins can do this if it all falling apart it's basically these pins go through the end of the rod that and then they fit into there to kind of does a couple things keeps the rod from coming out of that and also keeps the rod from being able to spin once it's on the wall so again the same thing just get this one in there okay so now tricky thing is balancing all this and getting my screw started without dropping the whole thing so I'll hopefully get one screw started in each end so we'll kind of hang up there again an extra set of hands definitely help you with this process try not to bang the wall on the other end scratch anything it's sitting in there a cameraman holding the other end up now just so you don't think I'm magic there we go that little pin that I put in there just was in the wrong spot and I'm not snugging those up with the drill I'll tighten them up with the screwdriver so they don't crack the tile or something silly this one's really fighting me there we go I have it backwards that's why okay so I've just got them started in there let's start these other ones and then I'll tighten with the screwdriver so like said I just like to hand tighten them the screwdriver so I can tell better how much pressure I'm putting on it and I don't end up cracking the tile these little caps most times they're just a friction fit and they'll just snap into place there cover up that black plastic end so make sure this little doohickeys in there okay so I mean fairly quick little project but as you can see an extra set of hands to help you along the way we'll definitely come in handy so at this point you're ready to just hang your curtain and use your shower well thanks a lot I hope this helped you I know it seems like a pretty simple thing but sometimes just watching it be installed really helps you to understand the process of going through it so if it did help you we appreciate if you click the thumbs up button there below you can leave a comment if you're maybe working on this type of project and if you have any questions about your project you're better off to go to the forum and post your question up there where it's easier to answer and correspond with you back and forth and like usual we do appreciate you watching and we appreciate if you'd follow us on Facebook and Twitter and maybe check out our patreon page as well thanks for nowhi I'm Shannon from house improvements calm and in today's video I'm going to show you how to hang a curved shower bar curtain bar okay so the process is fairly similar whether it's straight or curved this one happens to be curved but so all these shower bars are going to be have a little bit of adjustment in in them for width of your room basically most tubs are five feet I think these bars will do up to a five and a half foot tub so they do have some adjustment to them they're pretty simple kind of the first thing that need to determine is what you want for a height of this bar right so what I do I find that most curtain you know shower curtains that you buy it might say it's 70 inches by 60 inches or whatever a 70 inches tall I find that isn't always the exact length of what they are so what I like to do is just take it take it right out of its package kind of hold it up get an idea on the front edge of the tub because you don't want it dragging on the floor I like to have it usually around you know four to eight inches off the floor so I actually physically hold the curtain up kind of see where it lays against the tub and then allow because your curtains gonna have you know those fancy hooks too right so you need to allow a little bit for those if you have the hooks just hold it up by the hook and that will help you determine the center mark of your shower rod for height so once you have that then you can measure off top of your tub to the mark that you had and put the thing same thing over on the other side you can see I put tape we've got a tile wall so I just put tape in the general area so I can do all my marking on the tape so now we've got our height next thing you want to do is get your your distance in now with the curved bars with a straight bar that's pretty basic right you you know pretty much you want it over top the the front edge of the tub with the curve barré if you if you put these out too far you know sure you get lots of room nice room inside of here but it may crowd your cabinets or whatever you're not in this case we're gonna have a toilet right here so if you get that curvature out too far and the curtain is only half open or whatever it's gonna be hanging out kind of close to the toilet so usually what I do is I set the bar you know on the edge of the tub and get a bit of a feel for it I like the bar to be outside of the tub but just outside and that gives me a bit of an idea then here how far you and I want to be on the wall so you're still going to get the benefit of the rounded curved shower bar or curtain bar to give you the extra room in the shower but it's not going to be too obstructive outside of the shower okay so in our case in my case anyways that was 3 and 3/4 now something else because this bathroom was a complete gut I actually put framing in the wall in this general area so that I could screw these little brackets right into wood blocking behind the tile and the drywall and everything you might not have that luxury and most of these kits actually send some style of hall wall anchor okay so those will be in there if not you'll just need some wood screws the right size on length to reach back to whatever blocking you put in there if you've got the chance to do the blocking I would do it that way it's gonna be better in my opinion okay so once you've determined your height of the rod find your little brackets that have to go on there and determine your location to them and mark your holes like I did sorry I'll show you over here like I did here so I marked one and I just simply held the bracket up lined up to my mark and Mark the other spot okay with the curved bars there's going to be kind of a right and a left to these little brackets because the inside of them has to be sloped a little bit till all the the bar to go in the way it needs to also there's a right and left because which were my gonna put this I'm gonna go this way sorry no I'm gonna go this way because the bar I'm just trying to get that in there good because the bar is expandable it slides simply just slides inside of each other so the two halves of the bar are slightly different diameters so these little pieces that go on the wall are obviously different sizes too so you just need to make sure you got the right bracket for the proper end of the bar that it's going to and then mount them on the wall the right directions okay so we need to get these all on the bar itself before you mount it in place actually let's drill the holes first sorry then it's already I already drilled that side as you noticed I'm drilling through tile so I'm using the appropriate bit to do that job and I'll drill my two holes through the tile and then that way I can insert the screw and screw it back into the wood blocking that I have in there when you're drilling through tile you want to have some water hand you just keep your bit cool and I'm not using a hammer drill function at the drill just simply the drilling drilling function that's one so they'll just remove this tape there a little bit so you want to make sure that you're drilling that hole even a little bit oversized so your screw easily goes through it because you're not screwing into the tile you're screwing into whatever's behind it or if you're using these expandable anchors that holes got to be big enough that that anchor will slip right through in this case my hole wouldn't have been for these so okay so we've we've got our bar here this I don't know if you can see what I'm struggling with here this little piece right here just goes fits into that larger bar pipe there and it's just really to kind of keep from scuffing this when you're sliding it in and out but it's kind of a pain to because it doesn't really stay there okay so like I said you've got to get your your ends on the appropriate end or the right size I should say and the right direction get all your pieces on maybe if I put this on here it will be held on by that piece of plastic kind of fighting this down there okay this package there's a couple little pins so these pins can do this if it all falling apart it's basically these pins go through the end of the rod that and then they fit into there to kind of does a couple things keeps the rod from coming out of that and also keeps the rod from being able to spin once it's on the wall so again the same thing just get this one in there okay so now tricky thing is balancing all this and getting my screw started without dropping the whole thing so I'll hopefully get one screw started in each end so we'll kind of hang up there again an extra set of hands definitely help you with this process try not to bang the wall on the other end scratch anything it's sitting in there a cameraman holding the other end up now just so you don't think I'm magic there we go that little pin that I put in there just was in the wrong spot and I'm not snugging those up with the drill I'll tighten them up with the screwdriver so they don't crack the tile or something silly this one's really fighting me there we go I have it backwards that's why okay so I've just got them started in there let's start these other ones and then I'll tighten with the screwdriver so like said I just like to hand tighten them the screwdriver so I can tell better how much pressure I'm putting on it and I don't end up cracking the tile these little caps most times they're just a friction fit and they'll just snap into place there cover up that black plastic end so make sure this little doohickeys in there okay so I mean fairly quick little project but as you can see an extra set of hands to help you along the way we'll definitely come in handy so at this point you're ready to just hang your curtain and use your shower well thanks a lot I hope this helped you I know it seems like a pretty simple thing but sometimes just watching it be installed really helps you to understand the process of going through it so if it did help you we appreciate if you click the thumbs up button there below you can leave a comment if you're maybe working on this type of project and if you have any questions about your project you're better off to go to the forum and post your question up there where it's easier to answer and correspond with you back and forth and like usual we do appreciate you watching and we appreciate if you'd follow us on Facebook and Twitter and maybe check out our patreon page as well thanks for now\n"