The Medway Handyman wrote:
Frank Erskine wrote:
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:50:40 GMT, "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.

Wow!

A wooden wedge would give you total control, as a real craftsman,
over any adjustments, Imperial (preferably) or metric

It wouldn't give you anything like total control. It would fall out
if you backed off the fixing. And can't be adjusted if its too small
or too big.

Ever heard of a folding wedge Dave? I doubt it with your lack of technical
knowledge!

Wooden wedges are a bodge compared to plastic ones.

Funny that, all the *professional* chippies I know wouldn't use the things
for fitting door frames - far too fiddly and unreliable to use.

I use as standard a 5mm & 3mm plastic spacer tied together when
installing deck boards. The gap isn't approximately 8mm its bloody
well exactly 8mm all along. Which also means that I can adjust the
gap to 6mm, 7mm, 9mm 10mm etc depending on the weather conditions &
moisture content of the boards.

Again - *FOLDING* *WEDGES* Dave - those things can hold collapsing buildings
up and give a great accuracy in use, unlike plastic wedges.

Who realistically wants their house to be held together by bits of
metrically specced kit?

The French?

Ah! That's where you did your research for that little franchise of yours -
France. Now that explains a lot!

Tanner-'op


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