It is New Tool Tuesday! - New Tools Other Tilers Have Bought Recently

[Dumbo]

These will help some folk who struggle with self levelling.

I have no idea what they will cost but I saw them the other day and I bumped into the Tile Rite rep today...... (no freebies either)

TileRite - https://www.tilerite.co.uk/general-tiling-tools/miscellaneous-tools/floor-levelling-pegs/

I've often though about something like that instead of drilling and plugging and the associated risks and obs can't do that with underrated screed .

 

[hmtiling]

These will help some folk who struggle with self levelling.

I have no idea what they will cost but I saw them the other day and I bumped into the Tile Rite rep today...... (no freebies either)

TileRite - https://www.tilerite.co.uk/general-tiling-tools/miscellaneous-tools/floor-levelling-pegs/

VI Distribution - https://www.vidistribution.co.uk/store/results.php?s=Levelpins
I used these before Tom. Very handy when a deep pour is needed. Pricy for what they are though

 

[Bill]

VI Distribution - https://www.vidistribution.co.uk/store/results.php?s=Levelpins
I used these before Tom. Very handy when a deep pour is needed. Pricy for what they are though

bet they will be cheaper from Tile rite

 

[hmtiling]

bet they will be cheaper from Tile rite

It'd be robbery otherwise

 

[demi34]

 

[J Sid]

bet they will be cheaper from Tile rite

LEVELLING PINS (100 pcs) 2017 Version! - https://www.janser-uk.co.uk/LEVELLING_PINS_100_pcs__2017_Version--product--222.html#

 

[Bill]

LEVELLING PINS (100 pcs) 2017 Version! - https://www.janser-uk.co.uk/LEVELLING_PINS_100_pcs__2017_Version--product--222.html#

I am all for a free market and earning a few quid but these are bits of plastic with a fixed scale printed on and will be churned out in China for less than 1p each.

Moulds created and machining done, transport - there is no way that you would need to charge x5 (retail level) per piece to make some money.

 

[WetSaw]

Excuse me if I'm being thick but isn't the scale a waste of time? Surely if you're levelling a floor, not just raising the whole level of a perfectly flat floor, they'll be reading different depths? Has to be better just to use marker pins set level then fill to the top of those.

 

[J Sid]

Excuse me if I'm being thick but isn't the scale a waste of time? Surely if you're levelling a floor, not just raising the whole level of a perfectly flat floor, they'll be reading different depths? Has to be better just to use marker pins set level then fill to the top of those.

stick them to floor
set 360 laser on floor
measure down from laser line to high stop of floor
say 50 mm reading
you want 5mm of SLC as a min depth
at each stick measure down 45mm from laser line and cut.
if floor is not level this will leave sticks at different lengths
SLC to tops of each stick to turn a unlevel floor to a flat floor

 

[WetSaw]

stick them to floor
set 360 laser on floor
measure down from laser line to high stop of floor
say 50 mm reading
you want 5mm of SLC as a min depth
at each stick measure down 45mm from laser line and cut.
if floor is not level this will leave sticks at different lengths
SLC to tops of each stick to turn a unlevel floor to a flat floor

So as I said, the scale is a complete waste of time!

 

[Bill]

So as I said, the scale is a complete waste of time!

not really as you don't need to mark the sticky up bit as you just remember what the reading is and cut....... it will save time.

 

[Boggs]

Nice idea, until they come unstuck when you start pouring and they end up floating about in the slc.

 

[WetSaw]

not really as you don't need to mark the sticky up bit as you just remember what the reading is and cut....... it will save time.

I have trouble remembering what day it is, and for that reason "I'm out"

 

[J Sid]

 

[Bill]

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I take it the box wasn't 'new'.......