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I was aiming for a touch of sarcasim in my post. I ahve two sets of levels. One for dabbing boards and using as a straigh edge, and a clean set for setting, marking and installing furniture, cabinets etc.
The straight edges i use in Spain are shop bought 100mm x 18mm and are a nice bit of kit, ime in the U.K. now and am using the aluminium ledgers of an old youngmans board which rotted away on my mates garage roof.
 
we always used straight edges more so when sand & cement fixing ,when tilers were tilers not just lid kickers tiling bathroom walls and splashbacks,most on here will never have use sand & cement and wouldnt know were to start
So true give some so called tilers a sand & cement floor they would not know how to start.
 

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Originally Posted by Brian the Tile
we always used straight edges more so when sand & cement fixing ,when tilers were tilers not just lid kickers tiling bathroom walls and splashbacks,most on here will never have use sand & cement and wouldnt know were to start


So true give some so called tilers a sand & cement floor they would not know how to start.



so unless you've laid on sand and cement you're not a real tiler? Guess I'll get back to kicking lids then........
 
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spent some of my hardest days in my apprenticeship doing sand cement screeding and rendering, what a nightmare but it was good to learn and is very handy to know, plus at the time the skillstest at the end of your time required it to be done, but yeah a lot of the younger tilers wouldnt have a scooby how to do it
 

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