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Re: Help - urgently needed

Postby Doug » 30 Dec 2017, 20:21

Piece of cls & a couple of folding wedges? Perhaps a piece of ply etc on the tiles first.
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Re: Help - urgently needed

Postby Coley » 30 Dec 2017, 20:33

Doug wrote:Piece of cls & a couple of folding wedges? Perhaps a piece of ply etc on the tiles first.
I agree. No reason at all to be over complicating it.

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Re: Help - urgently needed

Postby RogerS » 01 Jan 2018, 13:03

I ran the Fein down the back as Coley suggested but unfortunately it didn't obviously release any tension. I did think about folding wedges but felt that they wouldn't give me the control that I needed. So enter the scissor jack...

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Wound it out easy-peasy. Pushed the wall back to where I needed it to be plus a few mm, fitted the medium term crafted :eusa-whistle: spacer bar and unwound the jack until the spacer bar took up the strain. Et voila.

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Long term is to get some square metal channel and get it chrome plated.
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Re: Help - urgently needed

Postby Malc2098 » 01 Jan 2018, 13:33

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Re: Help - urgently needed

Postby Coley » 01 Jan 2018, 13:57

I love it when a plan comes together

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Re: Help - urgently needed

Postby RogerS » 01 Jan 2018, 20:00

Coley wrote:I love it when a plan comes together

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And then ..............................

Disaster :cry:

Well, 2018 has got off to a cracking start. This is the end of my short stud wall....the one that they pushed out of whack and the hive mind has helped me put straight.

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Not too bad. Now all the effing * had to do was align the tiles on the opposite wall with the above photo.

Well, I've been wasting my time faffing about with getting that wall vertical. I needn't have bothered because the pillock has exceeded all expectations this time and tomorrow when I know he'll have his mobile with him, I'm going to rip him a new one as I am well and truly screwed and can see no way out other than ripping out the whole * lot. Either that or drive up to where he's working with a bit of CLS in my hand and...well, you get the picture.

This is what the useless, pointless lump of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen has done. Let's put the bottom of the spirit level at the tray - which is our reference point as it has a slot into which the glass fits.

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Oh look....the ends of the tile are not in a vertical line. Wonder what it looks like further on up ?

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That's about 15mm out of vertical and we've still got a way to go to the top of the frame.

So there we have it. I can't see any solution that isn't going to look *. I can remove those mouldings on the non-vertical and then cut teensy weensy pieces of triangular tile to the ends of the existing ones, gradually getting wider as we go on up. Then redrill and fit the frame vertically. Then I will have the holes that I've already drilled ...yeah, yeah..I know should have checked first. So what's a bit of grey silicon between friends.
Or slant the other one backwards in which case I'll see a triangle which will look rubbish
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Re: Help - urgently needed

Postby Coley » 01 Jan 2018, 20:11

So the short stud wall is plumb, but the opposite wall/tiled edge is 15mm out of plumb ? You're not having a lot of luck with this are you ! If the tiled front edge on the offending wall is 15mm out, does that mean he's had to cut every tile in the corner to get them to fit ?

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Re: Help - urgently needed

Postby RogerS » 09 Jan 2018, 11:35

At last...shower screen installed

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Re: Help - urgently needed

Postby Rod » 09 Jan 2018, 13:53

Getting there, have you christened it yet?
Will it now stay put or will you have to keep a strut there?

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Re: Help - urgently needed

Postby RogerS » 09 Jan 2018, 14:05

Rod wrote:Getting there, have you christened it yet?
Will it now stay put or will you have to keep a strut there?

Rod



Yup..I christened it. The new Matki screen has a special coating and works extremely well. The water beads up and runs down the screen very easily leaving little behind.

I need to get some square steel channel and someone to chrome plate it as that wall will never stay out where it needs to be.
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Re: Help - urgently needed

Postby techauthorbob » 12 Jan 2018, 13:53

I have had success using long bit of timber and wedges on things like this.

Don't be afraid to overbend a bit, these things always spring back a bit...

Can't you borrow a scissor jack for a few days from someone?

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Re: Help - urgently needed

Postby RogerS » 12 Jan 2018, 14:33

techauthorbob wrote:I have had success using long bit of timber and wedges on things like this.

Don't be afraid to overbend a bit, these things always spring back a bit...

Can't you borrow a scissor jack for a few days from someone?

Bob


That's what I used.
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