Shower screen install
Shower screen install
Issue the wall where screen is to be installed is soft, had lots of issues with this wall fitting backer boards, finding a solid brick to drill into ,using 5 x 60mm plugs and screws. Most of the time the drill just went straight through,( its an old terraced house ).
This wal, the old plaster crumbled and fell off, took the loose off, almost half the bottom, filled the gap with 12mm plaster board, then 12 mm insulated backer board over that, cut a channel out to put in 12x32 mm batton ...
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by wossie6
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Shower screen install
Issue the wall where screen is to be installed is soft, had lots of issues with this wall fitting backer boards, finding a solid brick to drill into ,using 5 x 60mm plugs and screws. Most of the time the drill just went straight through,( its an old terraced house ).
This wal, the old plaster crumbled and fell off, took the loose off, almost half the bottom, filled the gap with 12mm plaster board, then 12 mm insulated backer board over that, cut a channel out to put in 12x32 mm batton ...
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by wossie6
This has been automatically posted in the DIYNot Forum on DIY Talk. The new DIY Forum