Argos, mutter, grumble...

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Not to mention that the screws and plugs 'included' are always pathetic.

In message , The Medway Handyman wrote

Because it's actually an imperial dimension? 36 inches?

Try 45.75cm, Our Dave.

And yes, that is 36.02", so a yard, within measurement error.

In message , Alan writes

I helped my son put up his large-ish bathroom mirror. The kit had a thoughtfully-included template for marking the positions of the fixing holes. Unfortunately, the dimensions were about 3/8" wrong - not quite close enough to use the holes we'd so carefully drilled in the wall, and not quite far enough away to drill a new ones.

Nothing new here, he usually makes bloody great mountains out of molehills.

That's the problem with TMH bragging about his 'professional' work, he makes himself look rather dim as it usually turns out that the 'amateurs' here usually know more than he does.

I wondered when you would make a post:-)

His jealousy never abates.

This sounds very similar to toothbrush holesmanship as written by Frank Muir for Peter Sellers in Balham. The little holes are put in manually, or in other words twice a year.

I must have had a CD rack from CPC made by the same bloke as your brackets, as the left side cheek had holes for the rods that went at the back, the right side did not. Brian

More a matter of missing the bleeding obvious - as we are all wont to do at times

In article , The Medway Handyman writes snip

Its OK he uses cranked screws.

I did one a couple of years back for my son, a big heavy mirror took 2 to lift it. The recessed holes on the back of the mirror couldnt be marked out on the wall and there was no template and no room for adjustment, so accurate measuring called for but with the weight of the thing we had to go into the brick behind the plasterboard, even then I wasnt sure it would hold up. I think I checked my measurements about 10 times. Previous posters are spot on, they need to make the fixing of these items user friendly.

Sorry, typo. Actual measurements were spot on :-)

But you highlight the point nicely, much less chance of user error if the fixing centres were directly divisible by 2.

We went metric in 1973 :-)

so. You still buy measuring tapes in feet/inches as well as meters - and our american cousins still use inches.

Never! - he's a married man.

I went back to imperial in 1985 :-)

Owain

How do you think that would help?

Only certain ines.

MBQ