In article , Nodge wrote:
Are the little cross shaped plastic tiling spacers you get supposed to be
left in situ and grouted over?

The ones I've used have said on the packet that you can leave them in -
and thats what I've done - except at the edges when I've either removed
them or cut them off after the tile adhesive has set...

Heres is an intersting little funny tale ;-)

SWIMO chose tiles for our new bathroom from a local discount place -
so she went out to get them and I gave her instructions to get a big
bucket of tile glue and a small bag of spacers.

Back to skool time:

For 200 tiles, in a roughly 20x10 layout, how many spacers do you need?

The answer is appriximately one per tile plus 2 edges worth. So we're
looking at no more than 250 spacers.

SWIMBO comes back with a bucket of 3500 of the damn things.

What makes it worse is that I got a free bag of about 300 with the tile
cuter I ordered from Screwfix! Fortunately the shop saw the funny side
and refunded us for the bucket of spacers... (Although it has to be
said that the bucket was under a tenner)

SWIMBOs eh? What would we do without them... (Probably no bl@@dy tile
laying, thats for sure!!!)

Gordon