As you work on various aspects of your bathroom, one thing you may want to install is a bar towel holder. Everyone wants a good space to hang towels in their bathroom. Bar holders don't take up a lot of space, since they only stick out from the wall an inch or two, but make towels nice and accessible whether by the sink or by the tub or shower. Yet all of these bar holders are not the same. So you need to do a little research before you make a purchase.

Bathroom Towel Holders

How Heavy Are Your Towels?

Bathroom Towel Holders

The first thing you need to take into consideration is the kind of towels that you're going to put on this bar towel rack. Not all towels are created equally. Some of them are very lightweight pieces. Others are very dense and heavy decorative pieces for an elegant bathroom. Well, the weight of these towels is going to be hanging on that rack all the time. So, you need to make sure that you have a towel rack that can handle the weight it is being asked to hold. Once you know what kind of towels will be hanging on the rack, read up on any holder you're considering to see if it can handle them.

What Kind Of Use Will It Get?

The next thing you can think of is what kind of use, or rather abuse, this bar towel holder is going to be asked to put up with. If it's going to be used as a place to hang decorative towels in your master bathroom, but really won't be used too often, you don't have to worry so much. However, if this is going to be a day in and day out use towel holder, or even worse going to be put in a bathroom that the kids are using regularly, you have to remember what kind of use they will be giving it.

You see when people use a towel rack, they don't just reach over and lift the towel off the rack most of the time. No, they pull on the towel to remove it from the rack. This is especially the case with children. Well this is adding extra pressure and weight to that towel rack. Therefore you need to make sure that you have a rack that can handle that kind of weight. If you purchase something that's just enough to handle the towels, it likely won't stand up.

What To Look For

There are three areas you need to look at when purchasing a bar towel holder that will be suitable for your bathroom. The first is the holder itself. Make sure the material is strong enough to be able to hold up to the use your going to ask it. You don't want something that's extremely flimsy that bends with just the lightest touch. This is asking for it to break.

Next you want to look at how it attaches to the wall. The more you're going to need from this folder defines how important it is to have a good, and solid mechanism to attach it to the wall in your bathroom. Third take care in where you attach the holder to your bathroom wall. If it's going to get a lot of use, or a fair amount of abuse, you want to make sure you attach it to studs in the wall to give it extra support instead of having holes in your drywall down the road.

Know the Limitations of Your Bar Towel Holder

Bathroom Towel Holders