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Hello,

I have a towel rack in my bathroom that has porcelain ends that
appeared to be just drywalled?? or plastered into the wall. There is
no bracket to attach the end to the wall. The fixture is countersunk a
bit and not just flush with the wall surface. The bathroom is
wallpapered so it is cut to fit around the end. I looked in your "Glue
what to what?" section but it did not mention how to glue porcelain to
a drywall or plasterboard wall. The house was built in 1971 so, not
sure if this is drywall or something else. Can you suggest a product?
Home Depot suggested a Hydraulic Cement. I picked up Drylock Fast
Plug. However, this states it is really for masonry or concrete. I
have not opened it yet as I am waiting on your response.

I smell some previous owner DIY here. If there really isn't a bracket, I'd
bet there was supposed to be one- is there an indentation on the back of the
porcelain end piece? If not, it was a fixture intended for use in a tile
field, to be held in with thinset and and the surrounding tile. (maybe that
wall used to be tiled, and the 'inset' you mentioned is a hole in skim coat
over old thinset or mastic? ) If there is an indentation in the porcelain,
I'd run a screw into the wall, or a molly with the screw left extended, and
epoxy, with the non-runny putty stuff. If I wasn't really in love with that
rack, I'd just trash it and replace it with a conventional bracket-mount, if
I could find one that would cover the hole in the wallpaper.

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