Need the assistance of the Handymen on the forum...

[aphex]

I need to devise a way to mount this: Towel Warming Rack

On a wall, with about a 2-3" gap between the wall and the rack. The feet are removable so I just need to figure out a way to get it up there.

 

[SSSnail]

Pipe brackets.

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[aphex]

pipe bracket? Is that kinda like how the closet racks are held up?

 

[wedi42]

he's thinking of something like this: (edit, the ones on top)
http://www.aovinternational.co...s/builderhardware4.jpg

most of them don't look nice, it may be difficult finding something complimentary to the towel rack

 

[aphex]

Well right now Im more concerned with stability, so I dont mind if they are chrome or the like.

 

[DrPizza]

My best idea: hard to describe without a diagram, therefore, I'll make successive approximations from a basic easy to understand idea:

Get two 2x4's, equal in length to the height of the rack. Mount them vertically as standouts for the two vertical poles on the towel rack.

Modification 1: instead of the full length, maybe 4 inches on the top and bottom on both sides

Modification 2: wood that matches the room

Modification 3: instead of a 2x4 for the dimension, get something that would have to be ripped in half. Say, approximately, a 2x8 4 inches long. Rather than cut it into two 2x4 pieces, 4 inches long, use a drill bit with the same diameter as the towel rack to cut it in half. (or at least bore all the way through, then carefully cut it in half down the center of the hole) That way, the towel rack's roundness will match up to the edge of the wood 4 inches (3 1/2 or whatever) from the wall.

There are a variety of ways to mount it to the wall, and to mount the towel rack to the wood.

 

[SSSnail]

Dude, just go to any hardware stores, look at the brackets and chose the ones that you need per requirements, buy a can of chrome spay paint and some sandpapers, whaala!

 

[bctbct]

You need advice from a handywoman, no man would use a heated towel.

 

[altonb1]

Originally posted by: bctbct
You need advice from a handywoman, no man would use a heated towel.

Quoted for Hilarity

 

[DrPizza]

(my suggestion above should be prefaced with "I assume that like any card-carrying man that you already visited the hardware stores, or rather, know off-hand every product they sell and know that they don't have any hardware that would work for your dimensions.")

 

[Greenman]

Originally posted by: SSSnail
Dude, just go to any hardware stores, look at the brackets and chose the ones that you need per requirements, buy a can of chrome spay paint and some sandpapers, whaala!

You've never actually been in a hardware store have you?

 

[boomerang]

Heated towels in Florida. Now I've heard it all.