Shower screen problems

chris_elevate · Post by **chris_elevate** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 9:43 pm

Hi,

I bought a bathstore shower screen that was made of about 10mm thick glass, very heavy!

I drilled my bathroom tiles, used raw plugs and screwed the 3 fixing into them to hold the screen up. As I doing it I was panicing that it the fixing wasn't going to be good enough and this was mainly due to the fact that it took both me and my wife to lift the screen to fix it on!

I phoned bathstore for technical advice and they said that it should have stated in the brochure and in the instructions that it required a joist or brick wall to install. This was helpful conisdering that I'd fitted the thing!

I've now got the problem a year later where the screen is trying to pull away from the wall and it's caused some of the tiles to crack! Very annoying.

What would you do to fix this problem? Anyone encountered something similar?

I guess getting a wooden batten into the wall bhind the plasterboard would be a nightmare to put right afterwards? Would it be possible to use some sort of plastic coated wooden batten against the walls or something?

I just don't really know what to do to put the problem right.

Thanks for your help.

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 11:25 pm

did it!!!

they said that it should have stated in the brochure and in the instructions that it required a joist or brick wall to install. This was helpful conisdering that I'd fitted the thing!

Post by **ultimatehandyman** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 11:38 pm

What is the actual wall made from that the scrren is fixed to?

If some of the tiles are cracked will you be replacing them?

python · Post by **python** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:20 pm

All three questions above are important, particularly about the wall construction.

give us as much detail as possible here.