"What is the maximum weight capacity for these seats?" When properly installed, all Seachrome shower seats have been
designed and manufactured to support loads exceeding the downward pull
requirements for Federal specifications FHA, VA, HUD, hospital codes,
and private construction. The actual "in use" load bearing capacity of
any shower seat, however, will be limited by the strength of its
mounting surface and installation hardware. Seachrome recommends that
shower seats be installed using 2" minimum thickness "in wall" solid
wood backing material with #10 x 2" stainless steel, phillips-head,
sheet metal screws, or using a wall embedded, minimum 12 ga. (2.8mm)
steel anchor plate with #10 x 24 stainless steel machine screws. Please
contact the factory for further mounting recommendations.
Under no circumstances should any shower seat be mounted to drywall,
sheetrock, plaster, fiberglass, acrylic or other similar "hollow" wall
surfaces without appropriate wood or steel backing material.