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Man at B&Q wrote:
On Jun 5, 2:03 pm, stuart noble wrote:
John Rumm wrote:
On 05/06/2010 11:49, Tim Watts wrote:
sure they are pushed well in. Or (what I do more) is to stick just one
leg in between each tile. I pull then out afterwards.
Yup its what I do as well.
Sometimes, you don't want spacers - if you are trying to correct a
slight error, you may need the tiles fractionally closer. Using a high
I find with some spacers, the leg is marginally thinner than it is wide.
So rotating it 90 degrees in the gap make it a little smaller. Two used
together are a tad more than one width etc. Hence careful selection of
combinations can tweak the gap in or out as required.

1mm thick plastic plant labels make good tweakers


And bits of cereal box.


matchsticks.

I too use the plastic spacers, placed at different angles and at
different locations to level up irregular stone tiles etc. Simply remove
oncce tile cement is almost set.