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...
Most grab bar installers, when they're growing their business, focus on what's visible. The website. The Google Business Profile. The Facebook ads. The Nextdoor presence. All of those are worth doing.
None of them are particularly good at ...
A lot of the calls grab bar installers get sound the same. My mother is coming home from the hospital on Thursday. The house isn't ready. What can you do?
It's one of the most common reasons families reach out, and one of the most stressfu...
If you've ever called around for a grab bar installation, you've probably had this moment. You ask what it costs to put in a couple of bars, you get a number, and your first thought is: that much? For what?
It's a fair question. A grab bar...
Occasionally on a job, you'll arrive and the customer will proudly point to a box on the bathroom counter. They've already bought the grab bar. They found it online, it was a good price, and they just need you to put it up. They're trying t...
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...
