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A handyman sees this all the time: towel bars seem to become loose and finally work themselves free of the drywall. There are plenty of ways to secure a towel bar to a wall. The preferred and most lasting way is to mount it directly into a wall stud. This is great if the supports actually line up with the wall studs, but that doesn’t normally happen. You can mount one side to a wall stud and use a wall anchor (or a toggle bolt) for the other side.
People usually ask about toggle bolts when one side has ripped out of the wall. I also like EZ anchors so long as the damage is small enough. The toggle bolt (aka butterfly bolt) works great but you will have to make some modifications to the bracket. Usually, the hole in the bracket is too small to insert a toggle bolt. So you will have to drill a larger hole into the bracket to accommodate the bolt.
Place the bolt through the hole in the bracket and then screw on the toggle just so that the bolt holds it. You don’t want to screw the toggle so far onto the bolt that there isn’t enough clearance for the toggle to open up. By screwing it onto just the end, the toggle will clear the back of the drywall and open up. Then you can pull the bolt head towards you (away from the wall) and tighten. Pulling the bolt outward engages the toggle into the back of the drywall and allows you to tighten the bracket to the wall.
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