Every installer I know has made this mistake. You're finishing up the walk-through in the bathroom, the customer is pleasant, the job looks straightforward, and they ask the question: So how much is this going to cost?
Nine out of ten inst...
Last month I wrote about Emilio's story of a grab bar that fell from the wall โ a cheap bar installed by a cheaper contractor after Emilio had been dismissed as "too expensive." When the customer's husband was hurt, she blamed Emilio. What ...
Emilio Baires, one of my co-founders at GBIAA and our technical lead, has been installing grab bars for more than twenty years. Over a thousand installs, zero failures. He's also the author of our certification course. He has a lot of stori...
There's a 55+ community of single-family homes in rural Maryland where I did a lot of work.
The development is lovely โ quiet roads, well-kept yards, an active clubhouse, the kind of place people move to for the promise of an easier life i...
The house was the same. What had changed was my parents.
My parents' house. The one I grew up in. Familiar in every direction โ the kitchen where I'd sat at the table a thousand times, the bathroom at the end of the hall, the bedrooms upst...
The hardest part of getting grab bars installed isn't finding someone who'll do it. It's finding someone who'll do it right.
On paper, every installer sounds the same. They all have trucks. They all have reviews. They all promise the job w...
I met a handyman on a job a while back. Good guy. Ran his own shop out of a clean truck, kept his word, knew his trade. The homeowner had hired him to hang a TV and install a grab bar in the bathroom. Normal day.
I was there helping the ho...
You've probably seen them. The grab bars at the hardware store, on Amazon, in the "shower safety" aisle of any drugstore โ the ones with two big suction cups on the ends. They look like grab bars. They're shaped like grab bars. They'r...
I sat down one evening expecting good news. I'd been doing some homework on fall statistics โ thinking surely, in 2025, we'd finally be bending the curve. Better awareness. Better products. Better medicine. More grab bars on the shelf at ev...
