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Shower Squeegee Hanger

Perhaps a 3 mm spacer behind the Command Hook holding the shower squeegee to the stall will let the blade dry out between uses:

Shower Squeegee Hanger - installed
Shower Squeegee Hanger – installed

It’s fluorescent green acrylic, because why not?

As with all such things, start with a scan of the base:

Command Hook - base scan
Command Hook – base scan

Then:

  • Import into LightBurn
  • Draw a rectangle fitting the base
  • Convert to a path
  • Node Edit to put the corner nodes on the perimeter
  • Tweak node handles to match curves to perimeter
  • Fire The Laser

Contrary to what I expected, the base is not symmetric.

The layout includes another, slightly inset, path to cut a matching shape of 3M 300LSE adhesive to stick the Command Hook onto the acrylic:

Shower Squeegee Hanger - spacer plate
Shower Squeegee Hanger – spacer plate

You could stick a rectangle of 300LSE to the acrylic and cut both in one operation, but making the sheet slightly smaller prevents sticky edges, at the cost of aligning the cut sheet on the fly.

The Command Hook’s base is not flat, even after mostly removing the remainder of the previous Hook adhesive, so the 300LSE didn’t bond across the whole thing. If water weakens the bond and it falls off the wall (surely in the middle of the night), the next time around I’ll sand the base flat.

Comments

2 responses to “Shower Squeegee Hanger”

  1. madbodger Avatar
    madbodger

    I would guess you need two layers of adhesive: one between the Command hook and the spacer, and another between the spacer and the wall.

    1. Ed Avatar

      Aye! A pack of well-aged Command Hook adhesive strips Came With The House™ (you can just see the tab sticking out through the squeegee hole) seemed better for the spacer-to-wall job. They’re not the right size for the hook, but I figured they’d last until I got more. None of the adhesives are rated for wet / outdoor use: this is strictly off-label. :grin:

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