Titan ceiling mounted pull up bar bolted through the spare room joists

Three weeks back the spare room ceiling got four bolts and a Titan Fitness ceiling mounted multi grip pull up bar hanging underneath them, the sort of job you only take on in a house you are already pulling apart one room at a time.

No model number appears on the box, the tube or the listing, just the Titan name and a monkey style chin up bar with knurled handles. On price it is nothing like a doorway bar and never pretends to be, several times what an Iron Gym clamp on costs, still a long way below a Rogue rack with the same grip options. Anything that gets bolted into this house gets read about first, and 4.3 stars from 94 reviews is thin evidence to spend that on.

Marking it out took an afternoon with a stud finder, a pencil and a second pair of hands on the other end of the tape. Finding the joists took longer than the actual install. Ceilings here are a shade over 8 foot, so the drop from the mounting plates eats headroom and a taller flatmate has to bend his knees on every rep, which he moans about aparently every single evening.

Chalk has turned out to be unnecessary because the knurling bites into dry hands properly, and after roughly 15 sessions none of it has polished smooth.

Four adults use this thing, ranging from someone who can knock out 12 clean chin ups to someone still doing negatives off a chair, and the wide neutral grips have been the difference between her using it and ignoring it. Nothing has creaked, nothing has moved, no plaster dust has come down. Storage never comes up with a ceiling mounted bar, it simply lives there, and in a house where four people share one of everything that saves an argument about where it gets shoved.

Here is what got up my nose. Nowhere does the listing state a weight rating for this pull up bar. Not on the box, not in the specs, not in the questions. Extension bolts are thrown in, which is genuinely useful when your joists sit above a service void, but no length is quoted for those either, so I ordered longer ones before it arrived and definetly did not need them. Titan are usually better than this, and cheaper doorway bars from Jayflex at least print a number you can argue with.

Do the ceiling plate bolts on these tend to work loose over a year of two people swinging on them, or is it the welds at the grip junctions that go first?