whats the best type of spacer

[Alan M]

hi there.
im starting out and havent used anything other than the cheap generic ones you get in hardware shops. what is the best type out there or are thay for different situations. there are
x shaped
straight
u shaped
3 legged ones
long legged ones
what are your opinions on all the different types

 

[Gazzer]

Depends what space you need and what pattern you are tiling to ?

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Alan - you missed off - Matches, cardboard, nails, toothpicks, wedges, pieces of tile .... in fact anything that will give you the required joint width.
As my pegs go in the face of the tile and not the joint, it could be anything.
But the most common I buy are 2/3/4mm cross type for walls.

 

[Andy Allen]

and what you prefer to use.......i prefer pegs reather than crosses

 

[Ian]

I used to use pegs but just use crosses now, I use them like pegs and remove them when adhesive has set.


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[Gazzer]

Plenty here Tradetiler Tile Spacers

 

[Andy Allen]

I used to use pegs but just use crosses now, I use them like pegs and remove them when adhesive has set
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why dont you just use pegs then?....lol

 

[Ian]

why dont you just use pegs then?....lol

I've only ever seen pegs in 2mm, so just buy big tubs of 2/3/4/5mm crosses rather than pegs and crosses :lol: Do pegs come in other sizes than 2mm? I've never looked?

 

[Andy Allen]

my tile suppler sells 1mm to 4mm, dont realy matter all works the same...:lol:

 

[Stef]

I think its easier using crosses than pegs,

if you need a wee extra half a millimeter or so then i think its easier to slip in a bit of card or a wedge along with the spacer.

 

[Ian]

I quite often use the cross properly with the first tile of a new row to stop it sliding left or right. They are quite also wider if you turn them on their sides which helps with badly sized tiles.

 

[doug boardley]

same as Timeless for me

 

[Stef]

I quite often use the cross properly with the first tile of a new row to stop it sliding left or right. They are quite also wider if you turn them on their sides which helps with badly sized tiles.

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Bri, I use Tile Easy Spacers, i find they are the same size which ever way you use them.

The company we work for supply them to us, think im sitting with about 20,000 of them in the garage. :smilewinkgrin:

 

[doug boardley]

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Bri, I use Tile Easy Spacers, i find they are the same size which ever way you use them.

The company we work for supply them to us, think im sitting with about 20,000 of them in the garage. :smilewinkgrin:

same ones as I use

 

[Ian]

I can't remember the name of the one I use, whatever the ones that Tile Giant sell are called, those ones!

 

[Stef]

The best ones you will buy (or get bought for you) :lol:.

Give you sore fingers trying to break a leg off them though. Tough wee buggers.

 

[Perry]

and i use matches have done for 30 years

 

[White Room]

Hope there not swan vesta, could be a fire hazard....

 

[Gall.B]

Rubi cross from CTD but use them as pegs :lol: struggle to get pegs in any other size than 2mm.

 

[Perry]

Hope there not swan vesta, could be a fire hazard....

Mark model making matches i brought £140 worth for my lads 20 years ago still using them must of done well over a million mts only use them once then they get used on models

 

[Mike]

Be careful using hollow spacers with heavy tiles. I did so recently with a travertine bathroom, the tiles jammed the spacer in and they were breaking when I tried to remove them. Nightmare of a job

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[jwatson]

vitrex 2mm cross spacers are 2mm one way and 2.5mm the other.... good for getting that half a mm needed sometimes

 

[Peter]

Tile easy spacers are my favourite. Brittle plastic rather than flexible, so easy to cleanly break a leg off if needs be rather than trying to dig the whole spacer our.

 

[merit]

wheres the best place to get tile easy spacers in bulk

 

[NZ_Tiler]

Cross spacers, with it standing up are what I use, if they break on you when pulling them out, change brands on the next job. Soft brittle spacers are more trouble then good. A pair of blunt tile nippers or nail nippers make light work of pulling out the stubborn spacers and saves the fingers.

 

[merit]

when you next cleaning your garage out, if never ,wheres the best place to source them

 

[Stef]

when you next cleaning your garage out, if never ,wheres the best place to source them

Get them through CTD if theres 1 close to you, I think TG stock tile easy also.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Rubi wedges for me, any slight variation in tile size pull or push wedge to suit, I never leave spacers in. Cuts down on grout filling to full tile depth imo, if the tiles are good for size (which is rare) I might use cross type but only insert one leg of the cross, then remove before grouting. Just my take on it.