Lippage clips... charge or not?

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So many tilers using clips these days? Won't be long before DIY enthusiassts become part of the competition I fear. I hope for the professionals on here that I am proved wrong, but can't see it going any other way.
'Endorsed and used by professionals' will be their tag line on the shelves of Wicks / B&Q.

It doesn't worry me, the levelling clips are great for what they do but they aren't fool proof, you still need the skill and experience that only a pro tiler would have
 
I guess it's like Brexit, let's revisit it in say 2022 and all will become clear.

On the cost issue, if I can't eat anything that I purchase associated with undertaking my work - I charge for it. It's an overhead
 
Search it in the DIY forum, just goes to show clips don't make any difference if you don't know what your doing in the first place 😉
 
So many tilers using clips these days? Won't be long before DIY enthusiassts become part of the competition I fear. I hope for the professionals on here that I am proved wrong, but can't see it going any other way.
'Endorsed and used by professionals' will be their tag line on the shelves of Wicks / B&Q.
I remember my tradesman saying same about manual tile cutters as he scored along the 6x6 opal whites with his scriber! He didn't use clips with them either
 
Genuinely sorry if I touched a nerve? Or maybe I didn't. I'm not getting the messages in your replies. Anyway, I'll leave it there as no doubt time will tell and I sincerely hope that I'm wrong about these clips. The consequences arent great if my pessism is correct
 
There just there to help that final part of tiling. If you can't tile these aren't tiling skills in a box!

Thanks for the reply. I laid 40 sq/m of wood effect porcelain 1200 x 200 this week. Absolutely flat as a pancake. I'd defy anyone to find fault. Work undertaken for a landscape gargener who knew his levels. He not only commented positively on the work but tipped me like never before. So, trust me, she was spot on.
What I fail to understand is, why would I use clips. Why add costs to the job?

Sorry no pics as I'm back in a fortnight to do backsplash so didn't take any yesterday
 
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I have also done many plank jobs with no clips, and no lips, but that was with planks that are not bowed, as I'm sure your tiles weren't bowed either other wise you would have lips! Clips can bend bowed planks back to straight to remove lips. Also, for large format tiles, there is essential. Have you not used them before ?
 

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