Tile spacers

[Italy]

I use 1mm 1.5 mm 2mm 2.5 mm rarely use 3mm unless working with BCT then I use them all at the same time.

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we do not begin to show what we have, otherwise I go down to the garage and start the construction of a way down to uk. between rls, crosses, wedges etc etc. I think I get up to the sleeve. ahaha

 

[Time's Ran Out]

@AndY mac - I'am sure there is some 2mm pegs in a 3mm peg box in that picture.

 

[AndY mac]

^^ guarantee you there's not.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Then I can't believe you mix green with blue and white and red.
And then you are reluctant to throw the dirty ones away - you keep them in another little container!

 

[AndY mac]

Dirty ones are ready for the wife to wash. Stop being picky hawk eye.

 

[Qwerty]

Stolen screwfix pencils too!!!

 

[AndY mac]

I'm cheap but not that cheap.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

View attachment 87420 I'm cheap but not that cheap.

Hope you put them back in the box points the same way!

 

[AndY mac]

Nope.

 

[widler]

Was it johnstone tiles which had the nibs on two sides instead of using spaces ? I remember tiling showers /kitchens in the early 90s with them on

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Both H&R Johnsons and Pilkintons had lugs on the tile side for spacing. They then went to a sloped edge for spacing but of course this went against the principles of a joint so you still had to space them. Apart from matchsticks etc Homelux marketed the punched out plastic from their tile trims as spacers.
It was only when the continental tiles became popular that spacers made an appearance.

 

[charliesw4]

3mm mostly

 

[NWTiles]

What size do you mostly use on .....
walls ?
Floors ?

I tend to use 2mm walls 3mm floor
Minimum is 2mm on a floor !

I tend to start using 4mm and 5mm when I'm working with bigger tiles 1000x1000 due to the working size of a tile.

 

[Flintstone]

You can buy here in the tiling tools shops,no joke View attachment 87393

I use these all the time with metros

 

[Fraser Tiling]

I use 2mm on walls and 3mm on floors, both depend on the quality and regularity of size of tile though.
Always use 3mm on planks on floor, although was asked to use 4mm on my last job, and looked really good with dark grout, helps with bowed tiles too.

 

[average]

Always 2-3 on walls and 4-5 on floors. I think best to have the 4-5mm on floors incase one loses the grout line somewhere , and losing it a mm here or there won't be as noticeable with the larger spacer's.