SlimLine & Bath Cradle

When doing the slim line it is very important that it is handled carefully, as warping it's shape in anyway will cause it to loose it's ability to do it's job & will not be useable.  The slim line is placed on all external corners within  the interior of the building & are needed to provide extra protection to them (as they are often knocked into & the plaster that is added is not enough to keep it strong & intact.  The slim line is a metal corner angle that will be eventually plastered over.  When inserting it should run

from ceiling to floor & have the top and bottom end corners sniped at an angle so that they don't bend back.  

When ready to fix in place, clouts are used at approx 300mm spacings along length of slim line.  You must take care not to hit or dent the metal as this will affect its integrity.  If parts of the slim line are not sitting flat against the gib, then an additional fixing can be placed in to get it sitting right.

With the bath cradle, the area that the bath was going to sit on was marked out onto the particle board by holding bath upside down & scoring a line  This point will indicate where the foot of the cradle will need to sit along, as pictured on left, and this footing for the framework will sit 20mm inwards from this line (to allow for the nogs to sit inside the lip of the bath).  Under the bath lip, a nog also needed to be placed at either end, to provide extra support to the bath (as a lot of weight is added to it, once water & a person are in it).

Where the length of the bath sits against the wall, the nogs are checked out so it sits inwards.  This will allow a gap from the gib down to the edging of the bath, which is to take into account if tiles or similar are placed on the wall to provide the extra space.

For the cradle itself, it is intended that the foot will provide the base that the nogs are placed along that run up from the floor 

and into the inside lip of the bath.  These will need to be cut so it is 20mm wide at the top for the length of the nog, and the corner of this cut may need to be shaved to account for the angle that the bath reclines at.

(Refer to drawn picture on left)