Waterproof spacer for shower door ?

Question

Slight screw-up ... Built an alcove shower in an en-suite ... to fit an 800 x 1200 tray. As I was using waterproof (Respatex) panels, I built the walls to be a tight fit against sides of tray ..... which allowing for slight sloping of cast stone tray means distance between the 2 walls is 809mm.

The screw-up is that the Resaptex is outside of tray not overlapping tray, I fitted the same way I had fitted corner trays, it is only a problem in an alcove shower.

I purchased a somewhat expensive Merlyn bi-fold shower door, but that was some years ago - and not got round to finishing shower ... finally opened the box and find this only good for 780-790mm (800 nominal)... so I need some form of spacer to take up the 'gap'

I need something 60mm wide around 25mm thick (1850 long) and there are

2 key things, need to be waterproof .. and ideally not ugly ....

The shower is a bright sliver anodised trim finish ... but assume not going to find a silver finish. I did think about some form of solid nylon strip .... anybody any suggestions.

Have asked manufacturer - but no joy so far ...

Tricky Dicky · Accepted Answer

Use an aluminium extrusion, give it a good scrub with fine wire wool and im mediately after cleaning spray with a suitable lacquer for metal. Should no t be too dissimilar to your panels. The anodising process basically produce s a pitted surface in aluminium to accept dyes and lacquers into the surfac e the shiny appearance is normally due to a finishing coat of lacquer.

Richard

Jim K · Answer

some sort of UPVC D shape moulding from a building plastics firm? don;t know if they go to 25mm but maybe split to 2X 12.5mm one each side? Jim K Jim K

Rick Hughes · Answer

hmmm .. maybe a hollow box section may be the answer  .. thanks

andrew · Answer

Merlyn are one of the more helpful shower companies, and they do extensions for most of their enclosures. They've custom made replacement panels for u s in a similar situation, and supplied missing parts for a shower we'd had in storage for a few years. It might work best to phone them in Ireland - 0

0353567791555. Otherwise are emai ls of 2 of the people who have helped us. A

Rick Hughes · Answer

I did contact Merlyn .. they said no spares for this model. The wall channel is a U shaped profile, with an extended lip on the inside through which you screw to wall. They could offer a spacer that would add 20mm to U channel, but not the lip .... which would then become messy to fix to wall.

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