On 05/06/2010 14:03, 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


As do the plastic straps that you sometimes find around the boxes. I
also keep a pair of small Mole grips to hand. They will easily squash
the spacer legs to any amount you want, thus making thinner ones for
smaller gaps, or ones that you can stack with full sized ones to make
bigger gaps. I also use a laser level. Very good for tile levelling. I
used 600 x 300 tiles in my bathroom, which are very unforgiving for
making level - a fraction of a degree out at one corner, becomes a
couple of mm at the far end of the tile, and a couple of tiles further
on ... !

The laser level made going round a window opening where I had to come up
either side before going across the top, made the job a doddle.

Arfa