Delaney Stainless Steel Grab Bar Concealed Screw Flange

Four lengths: 18, 24, 36 and 42 inches. For a bathroom refit, the 18 and 24 inch bars are the ones that usually go beside a toilet or vertically at a shower entry, while 36 and 42 inch bars are the long horizontal runs along a tub or shower back wall. All four are the same stainless steel bar with the same concealed screw flange, so you can mix lengths through a building and keep one look.

No, don't spec it there. The Delaney stainless steel grab bar with concealed screw flange is designated residential. An ADA or commercial washroom install has to be met with a bar carried and documented as commercial grade, because the grab bar and its anchoring have to be shown to take the required load. For a home bathroom, a rental unit bath, or an aging in place retrofit, this is the right kind of bar.

It still fastens through the wall the same way. The difference is cosmetic and hygienic: the mounting screws land on a base plate that a snap-on cover flange hides once the bar is set, so no fastener heads are showing on the finished wall. That is what the Delaney bar's concealed screw flange refers to. Exposed flange bars leave the screw heads visible and are quicker to inspect and re-tighten; concealed flange bars look cleaner in a finished residential bath, which is what this one is specified for.

Yes, and that is the usual way to buy it. The 18, 24, 36 and 42 inch bars are the same stainless steel concealed screw flange bar, so a portfolio of units can get a long bar in the tub and a short bar at the toilet and still read as one set of hardware. Ordering all four lengths off one model also keeps your replacement stock simple, since any bar you pull later comes back from the same family.

Solid backing, not drywall alone. The Delaney bar's flange takes fasteners into whatever is behind the finished surface, so you want to land it on studs or on blocking added between them; a bar screwed only into board or into hollow anchors will pull out under real weight. Since the concealed flange hides the fastener heads after install, sort out your backing and fastener choice before you snap the covers on, because getting back to the screws means pulling the flange covers off again.

Stainless is the reason to pick this one. The Delaney bar is stainless steel through the bar and flange, so constant shower spray, steam and cleaning chemicals do not attack it the way they eventually get under plated or painted tube. In a wet install that is the material difference that matters, and it is why the same bar works whether you mount it inside the shower surround or on the drywall outside it.