Noozer wrote:



If you are using the spacers correctly, they should stick up from the floor.
There's no way that you could leave them in place.

These are the little "+" pieces. You stand them up between the tiles. The
cross part of the "+" (the "-" part) fits on top of the tile. The bottom
part of the "+" gives you the gap. The top part of the "+" gives you
something to grab to remove them.



Nice try, but that's nonsense and you're making a mountain out of a
molehill.

The spacers are stuck in as one installs tiles. There's no set method of
"fitting them on top of the tile" in order to be "correctly" using them.
Stick the things in there to get the spacing, then yank them out with
small needlenose piers before grouting.