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Mobile home broken shower

  • 23-02-2018 8:49am
    #1
    LimerickCity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 549 ✭✭✭


    Hi Folks,
    I have a shower in my mobile home which is held onto the wall by a bracket.
    Basically the bracket has a holder with one screw at the top and a holder with one screw at the bottom, a bar runs between both holders, the shower head is attached to the bar and can slide up and down this bar.
    The wall behind the bracket is like a waterproof plastic wall (best i can explain it). The bottom holder has completely snapped off with the screw breaking. It appears that this was screwed into something behind the plastic wall that has fallen away once the screw snapped. The plastic wall is not solid and there appears to be no joist behind whereby i could simply put a new screw in the holder and screw it in.
    I have no access the the back of the plastic wall in the shower so i am thinking that my only option to secure the holder is to use glue or some type of bond. I have attached a picture/link below. And help would be greatly appreciated.
    442575.png


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  • #2
    cletus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,190 ✭✭✭cletus


    LimerickCity wrote: »
    Hi Folks,
    I have a shower in my mobile home which is held onto the wall by a bracket.
    Basically the bracket has a holder with one screw at the top and a holder with one screw at the bottom, a bar runs between both holders, the shower head is attached to the bar and can slide up and down this bar.
    The wall behind the bracket is like a waterproof plastic wall (best i can explain it). The bottom holder has completely snapped off with the screw breaking. It appears that this was screwed into something behind the plastic wall that has fallen away once the screw snapped. The plastic wall is not solid and there appears to be no joist behind whereby i could simply put a new screw in the holder and screw it in.
    I have no access the the back of the plastic wall in the shower so i am thinking that my only option to secure the holder is to use glue or some type of bond. I have attached a picture/link below. And help would be greatly appreciated.
    442575.png

    I'd imagine the shower rail was installed before the shower unit was fitted into place. Tec7 is what I'd be trying, but you might find the bracket breaks loose once you start moving the shower head.

    There aren't many options, but you could try using a hollow wall anchor, the kind that mushroom out when you tighten the bolt in them. They come in various lengths, but depending on the thickness of the shower wall (likely to be the thickness of a shower tray) you may not get a fitting short enough

    *edit* actually, a combination of a spring toggle and tec7 might just work


  • #3
    LimerickCity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 549 ✭✭✭LimerickCity


    cletus wrote: »
    LimerickCity wrote: »
    Hi Folks,
    I have a shower in my mobile home which is held onto the wall by a bracket.
    Basically the bracket has a holder with one screw at the top and a holder with one screw at the bottom, a bar runs between both holders, the shower head is attached to the bar and can slide up and down this bar.
    The wall behind the bracket is like a waterproof plastic wall (best i can explain it). The bottom holder has completely snapped off with the screw breaking. It appears that this was screwed into something behind the plastic wall that has fallen away once the screw snapped. The plastic wall is not solid and there appears to be no joist behind whereby i could simply put a new screw in the holder and screw it in.
    I have no access the the back of the plastic wall in the shower so i am thinking that my only option to secure the holder is to use glue or some type of bond. I have attached a picture/link below. And help would be greatly appreciated.
    442575.png

    I'd imagine the shower rail was installed before the shower unit was fitted into place. Tec7 is what I'd be trying, but you might find the bracket breaks loose once you start moving the shower head.

    There aren't many options, but you could try using a hollow wall anchor, the kind that mushroom out when you tighten the bolt in them. They come in various lengths, but depending on the thickness of the shower wall (likely to be the thickness of a shower tray) you may not get a fitting short enough

    *edit*  actually, a combination of a spring toggle and tec7 might just work
    Thanks for the response. The shower wall is only 2-3mm in thickness. I think there was some sort of a bracket behind it which the shower was screwed into but this fell away once the screw snapped.
    I must check out the tech 7 and spring toggle.


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