Originally Posted by
John Arnold
I vaguely remember a discussion from a while back about how the grab bar in a shower must be horizontal. So many of them are mounted at an angle. I recently stayed at a hotel where the bar was vertical.
Or, as is often the case, am I just imagining things?
Does anyone have a reference, or would this come under manufacturer's instructions?
The hotel we stayed at in California, the Westin San Francisco Market Street Hotel, also had the grab bars at an angle.
The reason they used to ... and many still do ... install the grab bars at that angle was so that the grab bars were installed between 33" and 36" as that is the way they understood what the code said. Except that the bars are supposed to be horizontal, at a height between 33" minimum and 36" maximum and the code did not say what they thought it did. The code shows the grab bars in a figure, which shows the bars as being horizontal, and as being between 33" and 36".
