Best stud finder for TILE??

[Triathlete]

Nope...brain is just fried from todays race that didn't end so well (race report coming soon)

[Ldub]

Sure, you available Billy?




Look out, Billy's on a roll tonight...or has been drinking or smokin' sumpin weird....

Nope...brain is just fried from todays race that didn't end so well (race report coming soon)

Note to self:...(tha earlier postage)


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Sorry B-Man...I forgot that I'd changed my siggy...

That look'd like I was bugger'n ya for fundage...CERTAINLY, nev'r tha case...

drek...please insert both cents, + your foot...here


Thanx...

[Triathlete]

Note to self:...(tha earlier postage)


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Sorry B-Man...I forgot that I'd changed my siggy...

That look'd like I was bugger'n ya for fundage...CERTAINLY, nev'r tha case...

drek...please insert both cents, + your foot...here


Thanx...

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Nah, never thought that at all...was just givin you a hard time.

[Ldub]

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Nah, never thought that at all...was just givin you a hard time.

Me Glad...

[tom4bren]

KAT,

I'll chime in since I just finished ripping out an old shower stall & prepping to install new.

What Dub said is true ifn you're looking to hit a stud. Mebbe not ifn U R trying to avoid studs. What I found was that the wall that has the shower controls usually has extra studs to hold the plumbing fixtures. If the shower shares a common wall with another bathroom (commonly does) then there could be extra studs in that wall too that were added for installing medicine cabinets & such in the other bathroom.

For grab rails, I'd seriously consider revising your install plan & try to hit the studs with a different kind of fastener. That'll be the strongest way of mounting it. I've just seen too many get pulled off that way because people actually use them to pull on & rip them off the wall.

[VX KAT]

Thanks Tom!
I mentioned the fastener that goes to the bars we selected in my first post, and it says to AVOID stud by 1.5". These things say:
"rated up to 800 pounds in Ceramic Wall Tile." Was the only one we found that seemed to be really good for tile.

We have the blue prints for our house....somewhere.....we're trying to find them to look at construction.

After looking over many stud finders, we decided to try the Franklin 710. It had 101 great reviews. We'll see I guess.
Also picked up a magnetic sensor as a double check backup.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ls_o05_s00_i00

[tom4bren]

Yah, I saw where you talked about avoiding the stud ... hence the warning that there may be studs in the bathroom where there shouldn't be any (based on 16" centering).

I'm not trying to scare you away from the fasteners that you chose but that 800 lb rating is for the fastener installed under ideal conditions. I'm sure that it's a great product but the Engi-Nerd in me forces me to exercise caution X4 since they will be used for mounting a safety device.

The 800 lb rating is for mounting it through tile that has been properly glued to the wall ... & the wall is greenboard or better ... & the wallboard was installed with screws rather than nails ....

If you trust the construction quality of your house then those fasteners should be fine. Both showers that I've worked on in my house had regular old sheet-rock behind the tile (fine for modular showers ... not so much for tile).

The blue prints for your house may not be much help. They are basically assembly instructions for the builder. How many times has hubby assembled something using the instructions & it came out ZAKLY right? Blue prints are a good thing but not for locating studs - they just don't have the resolution for that (prolly don't even show the extra studs I mentioned in my earlier post).