I've lost track of the number of people who've asked me if they can install a grab bar themselves. After all, it looks like a simple item and a well done install looks deceptively simple as well. It's a metal bar, two flanges, a handful of ...
A few days ago I read a study that stopped me mid-scroll. Searchbloom, a national digital marketing agency, analyzed what Americans type into Google when they want to change careers. Interest in "career change" is near a record high, roughl...
"Be careful."
It's the thing we say to our parents at the bottom of the stairs. The thing we say when they head to the bathroom in the night. We say it with love, and we mean it, and it does almost nothing, because it treats a fall as a la...
Before we founded GBIAA, my partners and I did a lot of grab bar installations and fielded lots of questions from homeowners. A common one was "How do I know you will do this right?"Β We had aΒ pretty good answer. Years in the field, a truck ...
Sitting in its packaging, a grab bar looks like a rather basic item: a $50 length of polished metal with a flange on each end.
To the person who reaches for it to catch their fall while slipping on wet soapy tile, it is something else enti...
My grandparents got old the way everybody does β slowly, and then all at once.
I noticed it in flashes during visits. The kitchen they'd cooked in for forty years had quietly become an obstacle course. The bowls had been moved from the upp...
One of the questions that keeps coming up with installers who are weighing GBIAA membership is some version of: why now? Why is this the moment to get certified, when the work has been getting done one way or another for decades?
The hones...
One of the most common questions we get from families is some version of: is it really worth a few hundred dollars to install grab bars when nothing has happened yet?
The question is reasonable. Grab bar installation isn't free. A professi...
One of the hardest conversations many adult children have with their parents is the one about grab bars. The daughter sees her mother starting to grip the towel rack for balance and thinks: we need to do something about this. The mother see...
