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?

Thanks,
Stephen.

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Stephen wrote:
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?

A cheap source for lots of wedges is a laminate floor fitting kit.

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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?

Thanks,
Stephen.

Stephen,

It's far better to cut these 'wedges' yourself out of 'scrap' pieces of
frame etc.

As a matter of interest, you really should you folding wedges from both
edged of the frame to maintain an even surface to nail/screw through.

If you are unsure of what these are, google for -- folding wedges -- but if
you are having problems with this, let me know and I will post a link to a
sketch of them.


Tanner-'op

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 - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

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


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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.

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

Price & cost are two very different things.

Wake up & smell the coffee!


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

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

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

--
Frank Erskine

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.

Wooden wedges are a bodge compared to plastic ones.

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.

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

The French?


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

On 20 Sep, 00:21, 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...Fixings/Plasti....

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

Folding wedges are the right thing to use, but one of their advantages
is not being bound to either scale. Nothing against plastic packers,
but folding wedges are much the better option for this application.


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

Those of who don't live in dinosaur houses?
--
Frank Erskine

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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Who has no need for subliminal advertising in his signature

"Tanner-'op" wrote:

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!

What an ignorant little person you are.

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.

What an ignorant unpleasant person you are.

--
Frank Lee

"Tanner-'op" wrote in message
...

[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.

One size fits all?.. not a chance.
If you are making them two foot long and only 3 mm thick maybe.
If you try and fill a small gap with them you only get support on the edges
and then you can't get a secure fixing.
You need several thicknesses to do the job properly.
You obviously lack experience using them.

Something a flimsy plastic peg cannot do!

Try it and see.
Almost any tough plastic can make a packing piece.
I have used Formica plastic off cuts in the past.

Tanner-'op wrote:


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!

Thank heavens for that.

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. ;-)

Not a franchise.

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.

6p each compared to fitting a £200 door + labour? Do the maths for heaven
sake.


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!

Errm - no they don't. Price & cost are entirely different things. 'Cost'
is the important thing here.

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?

My thoughts must be perfect then. I don't drink coffe, only tea.


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.

'Just' a handyman who runs an incredibly successful business, something you
have perhaps dreamed of in the past? That could explain your jealousy?

[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.

Alas Tanner, I'm never 'not busy'. I don't have the time to bugger about
making wedges in the workshop because I don't have any paid work.



--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

Stephen wrote:

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?

These things?
http://www.toolstation.com/index.html?code=46640

David

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?

Thanks,
Stephen.

clothes pegs.