Levelling clips are a load of tosh? Really? - TilersForums.com

[Flintstone]

You can Brian.

 

[Brian the Tile]

You can Brian.

Well im sorry can you explain how i must be missing something

 

[Bill]

I tiled a floor in similar planks without clips - no lips.

 

[Brian the Tile]

I tiled a floor in similar planks without clips - no lips.

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Decent tiles Tom?

 

[Bill]

by the way, with planks, I always use clips now....it is quicker to get the perfection I need.

 

[Bill]

Decent tiles Tom?

no, they were bowed but I am old school and I knew how to sort it....but it took longer to do so. There is the difference. I am quick at laying floor tiles but clips make a flat /lip free floor quicker.

 

[Brian the Tile]

Nice to have perfection Tom yes and im school also been tiling now forty odd years and still cant get how you get a bent tile (lets just say planks for instance) to make a floor without slight lipage there are no clips in the world that can make a bent tile flat,i can make them accseptible and always point out bad tiles to my customers before i will fix them after all my name is Brian not Jesus

 

[Qwerty]

I tiled a floor in similar planks without clips - no lips.

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Some planks are good quality, others not.
Personally I like to use clips even if there is a minor bow in them. Last year I did a large plank floor job using Mandarin Stone planks. Great quality tiles but roughly 20% had a slight bow on one end. The whole floor was laid using 1.5mm Raimondi clips in random bond and in the end was dead flat. Without them the floor would have had lips galore

 

[Bill]

Clips work Brian, try them.

Unfortunately, tiles ain't what they used to be and the manufacturers know they can get away with poor quality tiles.

 

[Spare Tool]

Brian, clips will bend a bowed tile and hold it in place untill the adhesive sets, recently done a swimming pool surround in 1200 planks and not only did the clips get the floor lip free they also allowed me to gently bend a gentle three way fall towards the pool with no envelope cuts, as Tom says try them you'll be surprised