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Vent: spent 6 hours on a cabinet door frame because I mixed up my shim stock
Had a rough Tuesday at the shop in Knoxville trying to hang a set of maple uppers for a kitchen job, and nothing would sit flush no matter what I did. Turned out I had grabbed the .030 plastic shims instead of the .015 wood ones I normally use, so every adjustment was double what it should have been. Once I swapped them out the whole run squared up in about 20 minutes. Anyone else keep two different shim piles on the bench and grab the wrong one without looking?
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johnson.lee7d ago
Been there with the shim mix up more times than I want to admit. Last summer I had a run of 12 oak drawers that fought me for two days because my .020 shims got dumped in the same coffee can as my .010s, and I never noticed until I was almost done. I even blamed the plywood for being out of whack, which was pretty dumb in hindsight. Now I keep them in separate ziploc bags with the thickness written on the outside in sharpie, though I still grab the wrong bag sometimes when I am rushed. The worst part is it never feels like a shim problem at first, you just keep chasing the gap around thinking the wall is bowed or your level is off. Six hours stings but at least you figured it out before the doors went on and the homeowner saw the mess.
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