The Medway Handyman wrote:
Tanner-'op wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Stephen wrote:
Hi,

I think I have seen plastic wedges you can buy to fit behind door
frames to make them plumb. What are they called so that I might buy
some?
https://www.screwfix.com/prods/35600...stic-Shims-100

Dave,

Bloody expensive items when all you need is a bit of wood and saw to
make your own (and you as a power-tool freak can even use a circular
saw to make 'em) - and absolutely useless when the opening is far
bigger than frame!
Tanner-'op

You miss the point matey. The SF ones are slotted so they drop over
the fixing and stay in place whatever you are doing - and you can
stack them, so if you had a 23mm gap you could use 3x6 & 1x5 and get
things exactly right.

Not a "matey" of yours Dave, and never will be!

Just shows how much you really know Dave! That three months of research you
allegedly did before you started that franchise of yours didn't teach you a
lot. ;-)

Self made folding wedges as used on a door frame can be made to any size,
and when pushed in behind the frame, are naturally self-holding and allow
infinitely small adjustments when straightening or plumbing the frame using
a plumb rule - oh, and you only use two wedges for any size gap (which give
a steady and solid bearing) and you don't need a pre-intalled fixing to hold
them in place, you just put the wedges in where they are needed and then fix
the frame.

Expensive? At 6p each? Compared to the cost of fitting a door?

Self made wedges - free using off-cuts of timber [1] - and a full set for a
door frame will take minutes to make even when cutting them with a
hand-saw - and you don't need to measure the gap before fitting them.

Price & cost are two very different things.

Erm, in my dictionary (yes I have several of those things in hardback copies
to hand, plus access to a plethora of them on t'net) - they both mean the
same thing, try looking them up!

Wake up & smell the coffee!

Can't stand the stuff Dave - all that caffeine addles the brains. Prehaps
you should take up tea drinking, that may help *YOUR* thoughts?

Never mind, it must be galling when you consider yourself to be a
professional (Ha!) but have to ask so many questions in a D-i-Y group.

Ah, I forgot. you *are* just a handyman though.

[1] Can be cut back at the workshop when you are not busy and stored
ready for use, and one size fits all for most jobs (on door and window
frames that is) - with the added bonus that they can be used for a multitude
of other purposes when "caught out" or in an emergency.

Something a flimsy plastic peg cannot do!

Tanner-'op

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