How to Mark Up Drill Hole Locations - Grab Bar Installation

The Pinellas County Grab Bars Blog has made it its mission to find the latest tips, advice and information regarding the installation of grab bars. In today’s issue we spoke with some of the leading providers of grab bar installations in Pinellas County to find out how to mark up drill hole locations.

Here is what we found out:

1. For each grab bar, choose 3 or more holes that could potential be used (note: this can vary depending on the grab bar).
2. Once the optimum location of each bar has been decided and informed by proper inspection using a stud finder, place each grab bar, one at a time against the wall to act as a template. Using a pencil for porous tiles and/or dry wall and a dry erase marker for glossy tiles, mark each potential drill hole.
• Note: use dry wall tape in the rare instance of dark or black tiles. Then put your markings with the dry erase marker on the tape. 
3. To clean up your markings after the installation, use a dry paper towel for dry erase marker or a high quality eraser for pencil markings.

Hint: You usually will not use all of the marked drill holes, however it is smart to always have as many as possible marked.

This insider grab bar installation information was provided to us by: 

Mr. Grab Bar of Pinellas County