Zenna Home 7013W, Behind-The-Door Towel Bar Or Tension Corner Pole Towel Caddy, White

This is at the cheap end of the tension towel pole market, make no mistake about that. But I think you will find that it lasts for years. I am moving into a new home, and hope to find nice stainless or chrome poles at some point, but decided that I'll get a couple of these till I find what I really want. I bought my first pair of these 15 years ago, and while they are still functional, I wanted shiny new ones.Note that this product is enormously versatile in terms of installation. I am using mine as tension poles, and was confused by the pictures of the door hinge mounting... but the hardware (plastic) is included for that installation, too. Also included is hardware for a wall mount installation.The two great things about tension towel poles is that you can put your towel bars "anywhere", and that the arms rotate. So, for example, you can fan out the three different bars in three different directions to help your towels dry, but push them back against a wall to look tidy when company's coming over. Or whatever. In my previous home, I installed these in front of the linen closet; most of the time the bars were in front of the closet... when I needed to get in, I just pushed the bars to the side. (To be more clear, the tension part was to the sides, roughly in line with the hinges on the linen closet doors, but the bars could fan across the doors most of the time.) In another home, they were in front of a window.You can also position your bars anywhere along the thick part of the vertical pole (not at the top; that piece is a smaller diameter). These are easily moved after you've set the whole thing up if you change your mind about the bar heights.The weak spot in these is the plastic L-shaped piece that attaches the horizontal towel bars to the vertical pole. If you think about the physics of it, putting weight at the ends of the extended poles is going to put more pressure on the plastic. If your household consists of mindful grownups, it's easy to pay attention to this. But without thinking about it, many of us might tend to sling our heavy wet towels across the outstretched tip, creating additional pressure at the joint. And kids, of course, will hang their towels however they hang them. So I suspect for most of us, these plastic pieces are going to be the reason these units need to be replaced some day.I'm impressed that they keep improving these over the years. My first set had black rubberband-type rings to hold up the towel bars. The newer version uses clear silicone (?) rings that are much sturdier. The old ones wore out (as rubberbands do), and the bars started to slip.It's probably good to know, too, that you have some leeway with the height of your ceiling with this set, though not as much as I think there should be. The basic installation is 102" (8'6"), which is 4 24" poles plus a 16" pole (which doesn't add up because the poles nest inside / overlap each other). You can easily remove either a 16" piece (14" extra height) or a 24" piece (22" of extra height). You can also cut the poles if you have an appropriate saw, or order extra poles if you have a really high ceiling.I was disinclined to cut poles, but popped a couple of old wine corks into the tube with the spring to gain an extra 4" to make one of mine fit correctly in its space (and did not use the short pole).So in a way, it's infinitely flexible, but in fact there's work to be done if your ceiling isn't a "standard" height. I wish it worked a little more like curtain tension poles, which seem to be much more readily adjustable.As for rust, these will start to rust on the edges of the tubes. There are adhesive strips included for you to cover the seams if you want. You can also just position the towel bars to be over the joints and conceal them that way (though you probably don't want to do that for the joint nearest the floor, which would be too low).Pros:1. Inexpensive, reasonably inoffensive powdercoated metal and plastic unit that will last for years2. Variety of installation options.3. I forgot to mention that there were a number of extra parts included, which was nice.Cons:1. Plastic L joints will be the first to go; you can prolong their life by being careful.2. Expect some rust at the joints of the vertical pipe segments.Definitely a good deal for the money.

I bought one of these about a year ago and have loved it. I recently installed another one in a relative's house. The product is advertised as a towel holder, but we use it as a sweatshirts-and-other-clothes-that-would-normally-end-up-on-the-floor holder. It's a great place to throw sweatshirts and things. Better than hooks since clothes have more room to air out and don't end up with hook dimples.The box comes with the pole and three long arms and one short arm. I wanted more arms, so I bought two sets and just loaded up the pole with double the number of arms, which gave me a lot more hanging space.The pole can be mounted on your door hinges (the hinge pins go through the brackets on the pole). If you mount it this way, it takes up no floor space and disappears behind the door. Very clever, very efficient. Putting the pole and arms together took about ten minutes, and popping the hinge pins and mounting the pole on the hinges took about another ten minutes.

I bought 3 of these to go behind our bathroom doors for wet towel storage and they work great! They are a little funky to assemble as the instructions assume and include pieces that assemble to fit inside the door hinges, which would mean you would have to remove your bathroom doors but we just wanted to use them without the door brackets as tension poles from floor to ceiling. Luckily they are tall enough to fit our high ceilings in our 1917 yr old house. My only problem with them is that they are a bit flimsy and are cheap white plastic. However, we got good tension on them and they have been up prior to Thanksgiving with daily use without any issues. I would love to see choices in chrome or black and maybe metal instead of plastic fasteners but these are really minor issues. The bottom line is they are well hidden behind our doors and hold 3 large towels (even big bath sheets that flop over the bar) that are dry the next day for re-use. It has really reduced the clutter in our bathrooms and make it easy for guests to hang up wet towels, so it gets a big heads up from me!

I had one of these for over 20 years and I took it with me the last 2 times I moved great distances. It was recently broken by a service man that leaned on it when he was leaning over looking at my hot water heater pipes. He did not even let me know he had broken it, he just hung the towel back over it and left me to find out later. Nice huh? Well I finally found a replacement here on Amazon. I searched the stores and the web for days trying to find one, so thanks Amazon for your services.I love this towel bar. My hair towel goes on the top bar(ladies, you know what I mean here), my body towel goes on the middle bar and there is room next to it for my wash rag, and my floor towel goes on the bottom bar. Oh and for you ladies with husbands there is a sturdy hook at the top that holds a large towel too. All the towels dry in a minimal amount of time and are ready for the next use. They hang out of the way, and if you redecorate, it is soooo easy to take down and move, just pull down on the tension rod from the ceiling and snap it into place where you want it. No better towel bar exists anywhere. I will keep the servicemen away from it in the future. Bad man.