How To Install a Toilet Paper Holder [Video]

By: Dad, How Do I?

This is a pretty common style, so it works for a lot of toilet paper holders as well as towel holders.

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00:00
hey kids hey uh so nice to see you again
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uh thank you for your support for my
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channel and for
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uh the announcement of my book i’m
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really excited about
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um getting that out and getting it into
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your hands so just wanted to say
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a sincere thank you for the great
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response that i had to that
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um so today i’ve actually seen recently
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on my channel people asking
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a couple people and so i thought i’d
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just go ahead and do it um how to put up
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a
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paper towel holder or sorry a toilet
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paper holder and
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uh like a towel rack they kind of work
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the same way
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and if you’ve never you know dealt with
00:36
them before the way they work is
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they have these little these little
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screws at the bottom
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that they do such a good job of hiding
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that’s what’s holding them up there’s a
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little attachment on your wall
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and then you put this on and then you
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screw these things these little screws
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in to tighten it down
00:55
they do such a good job of hiding them
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because you don’t want to see them you
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know they don’t want to be noticeable
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but
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they kind of hide them from you if
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you’ve never seen if you know you didn’t
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know how they were installed they do
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such a good job of hiding them that
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you don’t know they’re there so uh
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anyway i remember
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you know way back when when i first
01:12
discovered them i was like oh okay
01:14
that’s pretty clever but
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yeah so anyway and they’re all kind of
01:18
designed that same way anything that has
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a bar running across it
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um you know like this it has a spring so
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they’re
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but like a towel rack it’s kind of just
01:27
wedged in between there
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a lot of towel racks you know so this is
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going to be
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for the most part right not every towel
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rack is going to be designed this way
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but most paper
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there are most toilet paper uh roll
01:39
holders
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are and so anyway so we’re gonna we’re
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gonna do that but
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but first i have a dad joke for you so
01:46
someone broke into the local police
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station and stole the toilet
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the cops have nothing to go on ah
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so let’s get started
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okay so here’s a pretty
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normal uh toilet paper rack
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and a towel holder works the same these
02:06
are pretty common there’s a little
02:08
variations like
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uh what you unscrew it with and i’m
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going to show you that so this one this
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particular one
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is a little flathead screwdriver but
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it’s hidden up underneath here they hide
02:19
them obviously so
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so they don’t stick out so it looks nice
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but uh
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but some people don’t know that they’re
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there when they
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need to replace them right so obviously
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you know if your kid
02:33
is here and he’s hanging on it it’s not
02:35
meant for that
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it’s meant to hold a roll of toilet
02:38
paper right or or a towel again the
02:40
towels work
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kind of the same way so i don’t think
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you necessarily need to get into a stud
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with one of these but let me show you
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how
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how these are mounted and it’s pretty
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common like i said so
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just remove that and then just right up
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underneath here
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you’ve got some screws let me get it
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started and then i’ll back off here
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okay so basically i’m just unscrewing it
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there
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like that and that’s it that’s what
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those look like
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underneath there so basically then you
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got a couple screws
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right and i think all i did here
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drill is i just
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i think i just used
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[Music]
03:27
my sheetrock screws i did
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come on yeah so you can see
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i just used my sheetrock screws here for
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that
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right and so all that happens is this
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just mounts there like that
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and then those covers go over the top
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like that
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and then uh you just tighten it up
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underneath
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and i’m gonna show you my other one my
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other bathroom because it’s just a
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little bit different this one’s a
03:55
flathead the other one uses an allen
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wrench underneath but that’s where those
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are and that’s what that mount
04:00
it’s pretty standard how that looks on a
04:03
toilet paper rack
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on a towel rack anything that’s like
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this
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so if you’re installing it for the first
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time you do got to figure out you know
04:10
the distance between so that this thing
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sits in here and springs good right um
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but anyway that’s how those work if
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you’ve got one up there already
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you just gotta look underneath and
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figure out how to unscrew it so i
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thought i would just go ahead and show
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you this
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how this mounts right so again just got
04:28
your sheetrock screws
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if you i think if uh with a paper or
04:32
with a towel holder
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um probably paper towel holders some
04:36
paper towel holders would work the same
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way too
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but anyway if you got something that’s
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gonna have to hold a lot of weight it
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would be nice to get
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into a stud if you can on at least one
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side
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right but if you can’t these things work
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really well and as long as your kids
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aren’t hanging on them
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you should be fine so basically we’re
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just going to put that in
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put this one in here
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okay and then we can screw that in
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like that and then this guy just fits
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over the top like that
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and then that screws back in from the
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bottom
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actually let me show you this so this is
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what’s going on here
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you can see there’s a this little screw
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right here right that’s just kind of
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popping up in there and just holding it
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okay so let’s go ahead
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put that back on and it’s just clamping
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up underneath this thing
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right there’s a little bevel here and it
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just screws right up in to hold it
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okay
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i think that little door key that i used
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to unlock your bathroom door would
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probably work for this one too but
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anyway that’s how that works so i just
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snug it up
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there you go and then i put this back on
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and let’s see here
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and since i’m here uh
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this is how i put a roll of toilet paper
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on for you kids
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uh so put the roll where the
06:25
um this might be fights in your in your
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marriage so
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just in case this is this is where i
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weigh in on this
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this i want to come over the top right
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because if you put it the other way
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like this you’re fighting for where the
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where the roll is right or where it ends
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where if you do it this way
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then it comes out and it comes off right
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off the top okay
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then you pull it you tear it it’s always
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there if it’s on the back side then
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you might be looking for it so okay
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you see this screw right here that’s
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what we’re trying to do
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right and the on the other one it’s an
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allen wrench but this is what
07:01
we’re see how it’s a flat head and
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you’re basically just
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unscrewing it and then that pops that
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off and then you screw it back in once
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you have it
07:10
have it mounted so i just wanted to show
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a close-up of that
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okay the way this one works is it’s an
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allen wrench
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okay so an allen rinse just looks like
07:21
that
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okay and you can buy these sets
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differently they come
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sometimes they come like this where it’s
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uh it’s all they’re all stuck together
07:32
like this and you just pull them out
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and use them but for this particular one
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it makes it awfully hard to get to it
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and
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and work it around with this big fat
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thing at the bottom
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the nice thing about it is you don’t
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lose allen wrenches
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because they’re all here right um and
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this one
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uh is part of a set um and the set
07:52
actually has lost a couple
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um i’m sure i just didn’t put them back
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so
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uh but it sure is handy it’s a lot
07:58
easier to work these
08:00
with with this style because i don’t get
08:01
that big handle fighting it right to
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move it back and forth so
08:05
let’s go ahead and remove that guy
08:11
okay and then stick that up there
08:23
okay and you can turn these around
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right depending on the situation you can
08:29
turn it and use the long one or you can
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use the short one
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they’re kind of nice
08:35
i could fight with it a little bit but
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you’ll get it
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okay so it’s off and again it works the
08:42
same way where it’s got that little
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thing it’s got that little screw at the
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bottom
08:46
right in this case it’s an allen wrench
08:48
and that just fits over the top like
08:50
that
08:52
and then screws in okay
08:55
all right so i hope that was so helpful
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for you you know those
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little hidden screws up underneath there
09:01
if you don’t know they’re there
09:02
yeah and now you know uh you know and if
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uh
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if you are mounting it to sheetrock and
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you know your kids hang on it um it’s
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gonna fall fall down probably right
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so you might have to move it um and uh
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and if it’s only going into sheetrock
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you prob might have to patch those holes
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and move it over just a little bit
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so you get um you know a good solid grip
09:24
into the new sheetrock
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um yeah and on a longer one like i said
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you want to try to get into a stud maybe
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on one side at least
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if it’s going to hang hang more weight
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uh it’s not a monkey bar so it’s
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nothing to hang on it but it will hold
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up a towel right
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um anyway so i hope that was helpful for
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you thanks for watching and god bless
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you

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