Project · Oviedo, FL · 2025-01-23
Grab Bar Installation in Oviedo, FL
Two grab bars in a tiled tub-and-shower combo for an Oviedo homeowner: one along the back wall, one at the end by the controls.
What the customer needed
In January 2025, an Oviedo homeowner wanted their tub-and-shower combo to feel safer. Oviedo is the town where the free-roaming chickens near the historic downtown are a local fixture, and like a lot of homes here, this bathroom had a standard tub with a shower over it. Stepping over a tub wall onto a wet surface is one of the most common places to lose your footing, so we added two bars.
The finished install
1. Finished. The horizontal bar along the back wall, above the soap dish. 
2. Finished. The vertical bar at the end of the tub, beside the controls.
What we did
Both bars are on the beige marble-look tile around the tub. A horizontal bar runs along the back wall just above the built-in ceramic soap dish, at a comfortable reach for steadying yourself while standing or lowering into the tub. A vertical bar sits at the end of the tub beside the shower valve and handheld shower, right where you grab on when stepping in over the tub edge and back out. Both bars went in to our install standard below.
Our install standard
- Every bar secured into studs or blocking, or with fasteners rated for grab bar loads, so the installation holds 250 lb
- ADA guideline height (33 to 36 inches to the top of the bar) unless the customer’s needs differ
- Every hole sealed and every bar pull-tested before we leave
- Photos of the completed work, as proof for the customer and the warranty