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b30 villain
spacers what are they:yikes:i use kitchen matches:lol: oh and the cardboard the tiles come in
how do you clean your tiling spacers
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Muse2k8
I get my missus to sit down infront of the soaps using one of them small dental brushes to scrub em clean. Shes allowed a 20 minute break for every 6 hours she works unless it's to make me a cuppa.
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Fliselege
I'd forgotten about spacers, what a pain in the wotsit, save them, go to use one and it's got glue on it, ever dropped a brand new bod in a full bucket of glue? Not good. Now I use (directly translated) tile string. Comes in 1,2,3,4 & 5 mm, takes seconds to pull it out, run it through your hand as you wind it up and all the glue falls off, and when the string is in you can see easily if the tiles don't look 100% straight.
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Time's Ran Out
You'll have to post a picture of this product or are we in April already!
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Fliselege
Ha ha no I'm serious I'd never seen let alone used it while in UK, I'll take a pic tomorrow at work and attempt to post it. Or you could look at my wholesalers site (flisekompaniet.no) and type "flisesnør" in search box
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Time's Ran Out
Is everything in Norway prefix'd with Flise...........:lol:
I'll definitely have a look.
Unfortunately my French isn't that good!
I'll definitely have a look.
Unfortunately my French isn't that good!
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Gazzer
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hillhead
I know a few guys who use string regularly, especially on splashbacks.
Very quick and effective and yes, reusable.
Very quick and effective and yes, reusable.
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White Room
The string keeps the joints clean...
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Fliselege
Flis means tile so most things I say are prefixed with it timelessjohn!
And thanks to sir ramic for posting the video, I wasn't looking forward
to trying to upload a picture, not too hot with technology...
And thanks to sir ramic for posting the video, I wasn't looking forward
to trying to upload a picture, not too hot with technology...
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Alan M
do you still have to use normal spacers in between on the vertical edges
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Time's Ran Out
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Fliselege
No Alan I might space out the first row using the string but the rest is done by eye
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Muse2k8
timeless john said:
Comment of the day!!! 😀
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Fliselege
yeah you and me both mate, my Norwegian sucks considering I've been here 7 years
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Time's Ran Out
When I did a job in Norway (Bomlo I think it was) the family invited me to a Saturday evening Shindig and everyone at the table spoke English because I was there, even when I wasn't involved in the conversation - now that is respect!
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Fliselege
That's another reason my Norwegian isn't great, the locals speak English and enjoy practising it. In Germany they dub German over the tv programs, here they never do, kept in English with Norwegian subtitles, so as soon as kids start watching telly they're learning English without realising it, and they say too much telly's a bad thing!
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Muse2k8
I suppose it's both a good thing and a bad thing. Good cos you know you can communicate and bad because as it's their country you would rather be respectful and learn their language.
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Alan M
a bit of good news. i splashed out and bought 200 spacers. so i wont have to wash them. no more penny piching. just bin em. amazing the price difference between trade tiler (4 pound for 1000) and local shops. 4-5 euro for 100.
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Fliselege
Very true but there's a few obstacles, I work for a fellow Englishman, I've got 4 BBC channels and Sky news in my satelite package, and the biggest obstacle of all, my 5 year old mocks my Norwegian. Kids can be so cruel. ;-)
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Muse2k8
Kids eh? Always the same 😛
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Stef
I said to buy them 6000 at a time but i now buy them 36000 at a time. :lol:
Plus i have another 12000 in the van!! :smilewinkgrin:
Plus i have another 12000 in the van!! :smilewinkgrin:
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Alan M
wow. lets hopr you dont hit a bump and open those tubs, youll be finding them for years
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Muse2k8
That's when tile spacers become expensive lol
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Stef
Oh, I fought 4 a few years to try & get spacers, now they buy me them every job!! :lol:
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Fliselege
With the help of my landlords 13 year old son, I (we) have worked out how to get pics from my phone to P.C!
This was a silly insurance job, had to take 5 tiles off bath, clean them and replace broken tiles around bathroom then retile the bath with marble. Nice materials but job looked stupid, marble bath and 20 year old ceramic walls..... customer was happy though and that's what matters
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Muse2k8
You weren't joking about using string :s
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White Room
Heard of string on floors as for spacing, not on walls thought..
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