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stevemastic

Post subject: Floating Shelfs

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:38 pm

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Mrs M asked be to go round & fit some floating shelfs for a couple down the road (who always end up being charged over the top or the tradesman never finishes the job!!) So off I trotted it was to near the take the van so I made two trips on foot. To my horror when I got there the shelfs were from a well known chain & relied on two round brackets secured to the wall, Then a cam lock to keep in place the featherlight hollow unit.... What a nightmare ::b

the brackets went up ,then a lot of huffing & puffing trying to get the cam locks in place. I ended up walking home again to get a box of packing & putting a 2mm shim behind the brackets to push them deeper to line up somewhere near the cam locks......NEVER AGAIN :cb

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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:06 pm

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darrenc wrote:

I dont think its a stupid question but does show a lack of understanding of how paint works and reasons for certain applications, now dont jump down my throat Jaegar i'm not being funny its just a classic case in point of a well educated professionally trained painter against a general tradesman.

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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:54 pm

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Sorry next time I'll take pics they didn't look to bad once up :roll:

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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 2:58 pm

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sounds like you did a good job, overcoming the crap quailty fixings! :grin:

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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 5:51 pm

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as I said with this type of product never again :cb

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