Having a packet of wedges in your van is always a good idea. In the building game you always need to shim things this way or that, and the old fag packet is no longer acceptable. These Broadfix Wedges from Allsons come in different colours which is very nice, but you don’t want to leave them showing so you need to snap them off at some point.

Which point though? Well, the wedges have snap lines at the thick end. Snapping is better than cutting because you don’t risk saw marks on the finished surface. The only trouble is that they don’t snap so well on the thin end so the bit that pokes past the door liner, for example, still needs to be trimmed with a Stanley knife. I must also add that the snap ability is influenced by temperature. I have used the wedges over several months, and on a cold winter’s day they are a very different animal compared to a hot one. The alternative to snapping is to rip them out after the foam has set. (Isn’t foam a wonderful thing by the way, hard to imagine life without it now). The wedges can be used in pairs as folding wedges as well as singly and the slot in the middle means that you can position them on the fixing screw or nail.

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