AmazonBasics Bathroom Handicap Safety Diameter Reviews Summary

Installation

Pros:

• "Installation was easy. The bar is very strong and sturdy."
• "The mounting holes allow you to orient this vertically, horizontally or on an angle."
• "Fits well and easy to install."
• "Needed this for my mother's bathroom. Easy to install. Just had to find the studs, drilled holes, and screwed in. Took less than 20 minutes."
• "I installed them in a tile shower and the process was pretty straight forward even without any studs."
• "Was easy to install with basic tools, and has held up very well."
• "I had this installed in 10 minutes from when it showed up at the door."

Cons:

• "The Covers That Fit Over The Hardware are crap With The Delta and the Mounting Welded Flanges Only have 3 Holes."
• "This is a well made bar but installation can be a challenge to assure it is secured and capable of handling the load."
• "Had more screw holes then screws provided. Also, you have to purchase sheetrock screw inserts separately so as to add support."
• "Not all installations are appropriate for provided screws - High Rise building walls don’t have wooden studs and fasteners are required."
• "Very poor design and too much trouble."
• "The fixing covers at the end seem to be a bit of a Heath Robinson design, very fiddly to free in order to give clearance to fix the screws – but it works."
• "The installation is a pain because of how the cover snaps on to cover the screws."

Quality and Design

Pros:

• "This grab bar is made from high quality stainless steel."
• "Real sturdy and holding up with daily use."
• "These are very good quality....easy to install.....and very supportive...."
• "The final result looks great and is super solid."
• "It's very sturdy and reliable."
• "This is a really sturdy and easy to install grab bar."
• "These grab bars are equal or better in quality to the higher priced products that are typically specified on my projects."

Cons:

• "The product was ok except I feel the underneath part of the bar shouldn’t have been smooth. It should have a had grip surface."
• "The only thing was it didn't look great when done. More of an issue with the lag bolt adaptor, than this grab bar though."
• "The expectation of having such fat screws self tap itself into a stud is optimistic."
• "One of the cover plates now does not tighten completely once we got it attached to the wall."
• "The description did not state that the surface had a knurled non-slip surface. I had assumed that a grab bar would have had such a texture. This unit is smooth."
• "It doesn't have any knurling or grip texture on the bar, so it might be a bit slippery when wet."
• "It's nice but wish it wasn't all smooth I like the one with the rough grip feeling going across it because your hands slide with this smooth surface."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "The price is outstanding."
• "They were half the price of the stores, but same or better quality. Well worth the money."
• "An excellent product for the price, half what big box stores charge!"
• "These all match the one Moen bar I have in there perfectly, at half the price."
• "For the price, the best available safety rail."
• "Well worth the price."
• "For the price I think it is hard to beat."

Cons:

• "This appeared to be great and tight for several months, but now it's losing suction and falling off every 10 days or so."
• "The grab bar was fine, but it didn't have any screws in the package."
• "Screws provided are cheap Chinese with an off size, easy to strip Phillips head."
• "The screws that came with the bar were not long enough to go through the tile and wall and deep enough into the stud for my satisfaction, so I had to purchase longer stainless steel screws."
• "Screw heads shredded up so now I’ve gotta do extra work to take them out and find or buy stronger screws."
• "The mounting screws provided by the manufacturer/supplier are very very poor - two Phillips Head screws stripped out."
• "Product was just fine but delivery man broke my gate and latch apparently with tremendous force!"