A friend needs a grab bar installed in a shower. The shower has sides that are ceramic tile and I think the the wall behind it is a typical stud wall. It seems to me that a good way to install a grab bar would be to install some sort of plate that could be fastened where there are studs and then to install the grab bar to the plate. (This would allow the grab bar to be placed at the most convenient location instead of where there happened to be studs.) However, I don't see any grab bar hardware that uses this design. Is there such a thing?
In a video Tom Silva installs a tub grab bar into the hollow parts of a wall instead of the studs. http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/vide...631608,00.html Is that a good way to install a grab bar in a shower? The friend thinks the best place for the bar is on the wall that has the faucets on it.