Re-useable lippage clips - Tile Advice

[Boggs]

Around £12 and pennies on EBay.

 

[Boggs]

Must admit they look good, just watched a video on YouTube.
My only issue would be the metal pin chipping the edge on its way out.
But just ordered some.

 

[Bopster]

Got a link to the eBay clips mate,as mentioned they look quite useful in some circumstances

 

[Qwerty]

I don't think these could be safely used on thin porcelain. The small metal pin/ foot could easily fracture it

 

[CJ]

Not that I’m a “Hug a tree” merchant, but I wonder how much plastic is being wasted with these clips........amongst other things

 

[Bill]

Not that I’m a “Hug a tree” merchant, but I wonder how much plastic is being wasted with these clips........amongst other things

How much land is being lost by clay/stone quarrying?

 

[CJ]

450-1000 years to decompose

 

[Qwerty]

I've actually asked the homeowners on the last few jobs if they wouldn't mind me putting the waste clips in the household recycling as I have thought the same too

 

[Bill]

Mustangs are definitely recyclable but not sure about the rest.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

You could re use them a 2-3 mm spacer pegs!

 

[Boggs]

What about all the anti fracture matting that gets sold yearly, that will all end up in the ground one day.

 

[LM]

The problem with recycling certain types of plastics is that councils over here for example don’t have the facilities to recycle all types of plastics. Over here they will only recycle plastics that have a lid, ie: a bottle. They wouldn’t empty my bin once at the start of all the recycling era and I phoned to complain and had a long drawn out discussion about it all. I was told that if your bin contaminates a whole lorry then when it empties at the recycling plant the whole load goes to landfill so clips probably can but won’t be recycled, over here at least.

 

[Tim Saunders]

I have some of these (bought of Ebay and shipped from China..arrived three days later!)..They work well on smaller format tiles and are ok as an emergency on larger formats..wouldn't use them on ultra thins...They take a bit of getting used to..need to hold the orange part in place whilst tightening them down otherwise it twists and moves the tile. They are easy to remove

 

[Qwerty]

Luckily Dorset Council subcontract out to a specific recycling company called Suez who sort through it all and it nearly all gets recycled. The plastic that cant be recycled gets ground down and compacted to produce an alternative fuel. For the past few years this fuel has been used to heat the kiln at a cement plant in Rugby, Warwickshire.

This plant also uses road sweepings from across the UK to produce the concrete blocks we see used in the centre/ edge of motorways and to make the blocks the MOD use as anti terrorist attack blocks in our city centres