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Every question, answered.

All 18 of them — the practical, the skeptical, and the honest limits. Missing yours? hello@steadilabs.com reads everything.

Does it float?

No, and it's worth saying up front: drop it in the bathwater and it goes straight to the bottom, no float in it at all. Pull it back out, rinse it off, and it grips exactly like it did before — the soak itself doesn't touch the material. It's built to sit on the deck, the niche, or the stool beside you, not to ride the water.

Will my wine glass or coupe fit?

Check the foot, not the bowl. A stemmed or stemless wine glass typically sits right in the 2-to-3-inch range that fits. The champagne coupe or flute is the one that breaks the pattern — its foot runs too narrow to grip.

What about a 40 oz tumbler?

It fits, and you don't need the exact number to trust that. Bringing one in has gotten common — a long soak calls for exactly the hydration it holds — and the base carries the extra height and weight without trouble.

My tub is a clawfoot with no ledge at all — does this even help?

Fair question — a clawfoot's lip genuinely doesn't have the width to rest anything on, base included, and that's a tradeoff remodeling guides already flag as part of owning the style. What it does change is whatever flat surface you do have close by: a stool pulled up, a windowsill, a low side table. It holds there instead of letting a bare surface lose the drink the way it would otherwise.

I've tried a suction-cup holder before — why would this be different?

Suction cups need a smooth, non-porous surface to hold at all — they can't seal on textured tile, unsealed grout, or older porcelain, and even where they do grip, the repeated complaint is a release with no warning, glass included. Nothing here suctions to anything. The fins grip the drink directly, so there's no seal that can ever let go.

What about the bamboo tray I already bought?

It solves the reach, sometimes, on a straight-sided tub — but manufacturer care instructions still say to wipe it dry after every use, and reviews across brands report the same joints splitting and boards warping within weeks. This has no lacquer coat to wear through and nothing spanning the tub to wobble.

Do I need one of those novelty bathtub-shaped glasses?

No — those exist because ordinary glassware struggles to stand on its own in a bath, which is itself an admission of the problem. Bring whatever you already own; the base is built to hold the glass you have, not sell you a new one.

Does steam or soap residue affect it?

No. It's one solid piece of flexible material — nothing layered to delaminate, nothing metal to corrode, nothing bonded on that steam can eventually work loose the way it does on an adhesive mount or a lacquered tray.

How do I clean it?

Rinse it or run it through the dishwasher. It's one piece of flexible material with nothing to come apart and no coating to wear through.

Who makes it, and where do I buy one?

It's called the Steadi, molded in small runs in Orange, California by Steadi Labs — veteran-founded and patent pending. Every order ships free from steadilabs.com, with 30 days to change your mind.

What's the exact size range this fits, and where does it stop?

The floor and ceiling are exact: a container base from 2 to 3 inches settles in fully, and the fins flex to 3.15 inches for a snug top-end fit — right where the Stanley 30 oz H2.0 FlowState Quencher's 3.15-inch base sits. Past that, honesty says no: the Stanley IceFlow 30 oz Flip Straw Tumbler runs 3.2 inches at the base, just wide enough to sit loose instead of gripped.

Does a Yeti Rambler fit, or is this only built around the Stanley?

Both the Yeti Rambler 20 oz and 30 oz tumblers share a 2.75-inch base, which sits comfortably inside the 2-to-3-inch range. The Yeti Rambler 26 oz bottle is a different shape, though — its straight-walled body measures 3.38 inches at the base, wide enough that it doesn't seat.

I bring a Gatorade or a squeeze bottle in for a post-workout soak — will that fit?

Not the 28 oz Gatorade squeeze bottle — its base runs about 3.45 inches, past even the flexed limit. A narrower sports bottle or a standard insulated tumbler is the better bet for the same post-soak hydration habit; most sit inside the 2-to-3-inch range.

Will steam and years of soaks wear this out the way a bamboo tray warps or a suction cup's seal fails?

Those are two specific failure points, and neither applies here. A bamboo tray's water resistance depends entirely on an outside coating, and a suction cup depends on an airtight gasket — both are separate parts that can degrade on their own. This is one piece of solid, flexible material, top to bottom, with no coating to wear through and no seal to work loose.

Does a hot bath affect the material, or does it stiffen up in a cold one?

No. Soaking through an ordinary hot bath is exactly the condition this is built for — standing water, steam, and humidity don't change how the fins grip a container. It isn't buoyant, so if it ends up in the bathwater itself it sinks rather than floats, but that's separate from tolerating the heat and moisture of the room, which it does for the whole soak.

Would this make sense as a gift for someone who does a self-care soak or a spa night?

It's built around exactly that ritual — the wine glass set down for a Sunday soak, the tea going cold on a shelf, the candlelit bath meant to be uninterrupted. It comes in more than one color, works with a glass or tumbler someone already owns, and needs no installation in someone else's bathroom. The honest caveat: a champagne coupe's foot is too narrow to grip, so it pairs better with a wine glass, a can, or a tumbler than with the coupe itself.

Can I use two at once — one at the tub deck and another somewhere else?

Yes. Nothing about it depends on spanning the tub or mounting at one fixed point, so there's nothing stopping two: one draped over the apron deck for the wine glass, another set into the soap niche or on a stool beside a clawfoot for a water bottle. Each one grips a container by its base, though — it's not a general shelf for a candle or a book.

How is this actually different from installing a corner shower caddy or shelf?

A caddy is fixed hardware — screwed, glued, or tension-mounted in one spot, and usually sized for a shampoo bottle rather than a glass or a can. This isn't installed at all: no drilling, no adhesive, no mounting rail. It moves to wherever the soak happens to be — the apron, the niche, a stool beside a clawfoot — and grips the container directly instead of offering a flat spot that gets just as soap-filmed and slick as everything else near the tub.

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