Grab Bars & Home Safety in Brooklyn

A grab bar is only as good as what it's screwed into

This is the one job where doing it badly is worse than not doing it at all, because a bar that pulls out of the wall does it at the exact moment someone's whole weight is on it.

A properly installed grab bar goes into blocking or studs, or into tile and masonry with anchors rated for the load. Suction-cup bars are for hanging a towel. In a tiled prewar bathroom that often means drilling tile — which is slow, needs the right bit, and is entirely doable without cracking anything if you're not in a hurry.

The free walk-through

If you're arranging this for a parent, ask us to walk the apartment while we're there. We'll note what we'd want fixed if it were our own grandparent's place: the rug at the top of the stairs, the burnt-out bulb on the landing, the extinguisher that expired in 2019, the extension cord running under a doorway.

You get the list. There's no charge for it and there's no pressure attached to it — you're free to hand it to anybody. Most of it you can do yourself in an afternoon.

For sons and daughters

We do a lot of this for people who don't live in New York anymore. You can set up the billing so it comes to you and your parent never has to discuss money at the door, and we'll text you photos when it's done.