Snap Wedges – Bag 50 – Broadfix

Broadfix snap wedges do one job and do it without fuss. They are plastic packers with a stepped profile, so you can snap off the thickness you need and leave the rest. If you have ever stood in a doorway hunting for the right shim in a tub of mixed offcuts, you will see the appeal. These snap wedges are a straightforward answer for levelling and packing on site.

Each bag holds 50 wedges. That sounds like a lot until you start a run of windows. Two or three wedges per corner, a few more under the cill, a couple for the head, and the bag is soon looking thin. At this price per bag it makes sense to keep a few in the van rather than rationing them.

Where Broadfix Snap Wedges Get Used

Fitters use snap wedges anywhere a frame needs holding true while fixings go in. Door frames, window frames, kitchen units, worktops, skirting, stud partitions and sanitaryware all come up. Because the wedge tapers, you can tap it in gently from either side and creep the frame into position a fraction at a time. Once it is plumb and level, fix through or beside the packer and the wedge keeps its position.

Plastic has a real advantage over timber here. It will not rot, swell or shrink, and it will not wick moisture towards the back of a frame in a damp reveal. That matters on external openings and on anything sitting near a wet area. Timber offcuts have their place, but they are never the same thickness twice.

Snapping to Size

The stepped design lets you break the wedge at a scored step, so one wedge covers a range of gap sizes. Snap it clean, check the thickness against the gap, and push it home. If you need more height, stack two wedges in opposing directions to form a flat packer. That trick gives you a parallel packing face instead of a sloped one, which is what you want under heavy loads.

Why Fitters Keep a Bag in the Van

Packing is one of those jobs that never appears on a quote but always appears on site. Floors are never quite flat and walls are never quite plumb. A bag of snap wedges turns a ten minute fiddle into a two minute fix. They are light, they do not take up room in a tool bag, and they are cheap enough to leave behind inside the finished work.

For anyone buying in volume, our bulk discount pricing on packers and shims is worth a look. Stocking up on packers is far less painful than a mid-job trip to the merchants for the sake of a few pence worth of plastic.