we've decided to put up a glass bath /shower sreen, but need advice on how to hang it? as the wall it will be going on is a plaster board wall and the screen is obviuosly very heavy, I was told that it is possible but to seek advice... any help PLEASE
erecting a bath sreen help please
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had the same issue the other year in our bathroom. I used the butterfly fasteners designed for hallow walls. The ones that have a long bolt into a sprung butterfly. Worked a treat.
One other thing I did ensure is that the glass screen actually sat on the bath so the weight of the screen is taken by the bath itself and not all on the wall fastenings. Ours was one of the hidged type but with our bathroom the glass screen is rearly off th bathside.
Hope this helps
Dux
One other thing I did ensure is that the glass screen actually sat on the bath so the weight of the screen is taken by the bath itself and not all on the wall fastenings. Ours was one of the hidged type but with our bathroom the glass screen is rearly off th bathside.
Hope this helps
Dux
cheers dux, I was thinkig of using 8mm hollow wall anchors that clamp up against the plasterboard with five legs similar to what you've used really... the glass screen i'm fitting is a solid peice also of the hinged variety, surely you don't need to have the glass sat on the bath if you've put enough fasteners into the wall...............?
Ian
When I say sat on the bath I may have been a bit vague. Our screen is a single piece of glass with a rubber seal that fits along the bottom which rests on the top of the bath side.
What I have done is fitted the screen so that the seal is a nice tight fit on the bath so in effect the bath takes some of the weight of the screen and actually exerts a small upward force due to the seal being squashed. Yes the fixings I have fitted are strong enough to support the screen by them selves but I always work on side of caution.
I am one of those people who always over constructs things to make sure it is ok. If 3 screws will do, 2 more will not hurt anything!!!
Dux
When I say sat on the bath I may have been a bit vague. Our screen is a single piece of glass with a rubber seal that fits along the bottom which rests on the top of the bath side.
What I have done is fitted the screen so that the seal is a nice tight fit on the bath so in effect the bath takes some of the weight of the screen and actually exerts a small upward force due to the seal being squashed. Yes the fixings I have fitted are strong enough to support the screen by them selves but I always work on side of caution.
I am one of those people who always over constructs things to make sure it is ok. If 3 screws will do, 2 more will not hurt anything!!!
Dux
Is the bathroom finished already?
If there is no tiling yet at the place you will be mounting the screen, then it would be a good idea to fasten a strip of timber to the brickwork to mount the screen to.
If this is, as masona has asked, plasterboard onto brickwork, cut through the plasterboard and mount timber to the brickwork behind, then make good and do your tiling. Then when you come to fit the screen it will screw into the timber directly.
If it is a studwall, check that there isn't a stud there already. If there is a stud, screw the screen directly into this timber. If there isn't, the surest approach would be to install an extra stud where the screen will be (either from the bathroom side of the wall or the other side).
I dotted and dabbed my bathroom, and used the first method I mentioned. It makes it very easy to fit because screwing directly into wood is so easy.
If there is no tiling yet at the place you will be mounting the screen, then it would be a good idea to fasten a strip of timber to the brickwork to mount the screen to.
If this is, as masona has asked, plasterboard onto brickwork, cut through the plasterboard and mount timber to the brickwork behind, then make good and do your tiling. Then when you come to fit the screen it will screw into the timber directly.
If it is a studwall, check that there isn't a stud there already. If there is a stud, screw the screen directly into this timber. If there isn't, the surest approach would be to install an extra stud where the screen will be (either from the bathroom side of the wall or the other side).
I dotted and dabbed my bathroom, and used the first method I mentioned. It makes it very easy to fit because screwing directly into wood is so easy.
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