Cardboard shims/furring strips for studwork

[markharro]

Can anyone recommend a source...I think it needs to be flat smooth cardboard - not corrugated.

 

This looks like it might work but I would need to cut strips from the roll - https://www.tiger-supplies.co.uk/Catalogue/site-equipment/temporary-protection/Floor-Protection/Floor-Card--Heavy-Duty---1M-x-50M-116-054

[joe90]

Are you protecting a floor? That’s what that’s for. Furring?? Please expand 

[Redbeard]

Packers for slightly-out-of-line studwork, I had assumed.

[joe90]

My favourite for packers is thin hardboard.

[markharro]

35 minutes ago, Redbeard said:

Packers for slightly-out-of-line studwork, I had assumed.

Yes exactly this

[Alan Ambrose]

You can buy a bunch of plastic packers in different thicknesses. This kind of thing:

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Assorted-Glazing-Plastic-Variations-Available/dp/B0B21KQJW3

Edited April 15 by Alan Ambrose

[Conor]

Window frame packers. I've a big bag from Screwfix. soooo handy for a range of jobs.

[Onoff]

 

 

Edit: My lad 3D printed the last lot of hinge shims I needed.

Edited April 15 by Onoff

[Onoff]

Don't forget matchsticks & PVA for filling wrongly drilled screw holes. 

[markharro]

1 hour ago, Conor said:

Window frame packers.

Yes got them and use them for other things but for a stud length you would need a few dozen!

[Russell griffiths]

How far out are we talking

if it’s a fair chunk you would be better putting the studs right. 
remember if it sticks out one side it will be low on the other. 
you can straighten a wonky stud with a saw cut and then re screw it. 
 

if a stud is low you can add a bead of no nails to that stud then fit your boards, but don’t screw into that stud, let the adhesive go off then screw it. 
 

if you do use packers you will only need 4 per 1200 wide sheet one every 300mm same as screw spacing. 

[crispy_wafer]

I used plastic shims from screwfix to straighten a slightly out stud very recently, horseshoe shaped come in various thicknesses (1/3/5/10mm).  Painted contact adhesive onto the stud and just stuck the shims in place. 

 

Previously I've cut studs on the bowed in side halfway down, give it a shove to straighten and open the cut then place a timber wedge into the cut. 

 

A few bags of packers are useful to have around, especially for getting ceiling battening level.