From: devnull@redacted.dnc   
      
   On 7/26/25 09:02, . wrote:   
   > redacted wrote:   
   >> On 7/25/25 10:12, Cindy Hamilton wrote:   
   >>> On 2025-07-25, Ed P  wrote:   
   >>>> Grab bars for the bathroom have come up here in the past.  Many of the   
   >>>> regulars here are getting older, so, think about it!   
   >>>   
   >>> We added one in the shower this past spring: horizontal across the   
   >>> back of the enclosure.  There already was a vertical bar lagged into   
   >>> the stud nearest the shower door opening.   
   >>>   
   >>> I've tried to use a towel bar a couple of times when bending down   
   >>> to pick up the bath mat.  That didn't go well, but there aren't   
   >>> studs well located to replace it with a grab bar.   
   >>>   
   >>> Wish we'd put in some blocking when we remodeled in 2016, but   
   >>> needing grab bars seemed far way when we were in our late 50s   
   >>> and working like kids on the remodel.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Maybe install floor-to-ceiling vertical poles?   
   >>   
   >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vlFaYgrRfA   
   >>   
   >>   
   > Would that support Cindy's massive 250 pound frame?   
      
   I dunno. I was at a tittybar once where two 125lb girls were workin' the   
   pole. Looked like an octopus, arms and legs were flailing all over.   
   Seemed to hold up OK.   
      
   Sort of like this:   
   https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/beautiful-pole-dance-du   
   -woman-1946120473   
      
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