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Thought those cheap magnetic contact shims were a gimmick, then a 1920s house in Cincinnati changed my mind
I picked up a pack of magnetic shims at a supply house in Cincinnati last month just to fill out an order. On a job in Hyde Park, the old wood frames had settled so bad that every door contact gap was over an inch and I was about to order recessed sensors for 12 windows. I tried one shim on a crooked window, snapped it in, and the gap closed clean in about 30 seconds. Ended up finishing that whole house with 4 shims and no new sensors. Anyone else use these on old settled frames, or do you just swap to recessed every time?
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angelataylor13d ago
Man, this is the same thing as when people buy a whole new phone because the charging port got lint in it. We love jumping to the big fix when a tiny one does the trick. Good on you for trying the cheap thing first instead of defaulting to recessed.
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