Levelling clips are a load of tosh? Really?

[Bill]

Decent tiles Tom?

no, they were bowed but I am old school and I knew how to sort it....but it took longer to do so. There is the difference. I am quick at laying floor tiles but clips make a flat /lip free floor quicker.

 

[Brian the Tile]

Nice to have perfection Tom yes and im school also been tiling now forty odd years and still cant get how you get a bent tile (lets just say planks for instance) to make a floor without slight lipage there are no clips in the world that can make a bent tile flat,i can make them accseptible and always point out bad tiles to my customers before i will fix them after all my name is Brian not Jesus

 

[Qwerty]

I tiled a floor in similar planks without clips - no lips.

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Some planks are good quality, others not.
Personally I like to use clips even if there is a minor bow in them. Last year I did a large plank floor job using Mandarin Stone planks. Great quality tiles but roughly 20% had a slight bow on one end. The whole floor was laid using 1.5mm Raimondi clips in random bond and in the end was dead flat. Without them the floor would have had lips galore

 

[Bill]

Clips work Brian, try them.

Unfortunately, tiles ain't what they used to be and the manufacturers know they can get away with poor quality tiles.

 

[Spare Tool]

Brian, clips will bend a bowed tile and hold it in place untill the adhesive sets, recently done a swimming pool surround in 1200 planks and not only did the clips get the floor lip free they also allowed me to gently bend a gentle three way fall towards the pool with no envelope cuts, as Tom says try them you'll be surprised

 

[Brian the Tile]

So now im being told that theese magic clips will bend the tiles,look ive only been tiling forty odd years i will stand at the side of any tiler worth his salt and make as good a job as he as quick as any tiler on this site or any other but the one thing i cannot do is make bowed tiles flat so for that reason im out

 

[Flintstone]

Brian, keep with the times mate rather than arguing with people that have done it. It’s well known that clips are the only real way to get lips out of bowed long planks, and other bowed tiles.

 

[Flintstone]

 

[Andy Allen]

Although I've never used them I'm impressed with the finish that can be achieved with them.
Do you charge to fit them?
If so how much would they increase the price on say a 40 to 50 meter job?

 

[Flintstone]

Andy I’ve only started using them this year and only with certain tiles and certain jobs and I assure you and anybody they will give a superior finish. On a floor of 50m, they will not slow you down, probably Speed you up as less time adjusting tiles. Price of products totally varies.

 

[Italy]

bad very bad.
only 2 tilers for now ....
It was so nice when I was alone to use clips

 

[Old Mod]

Although I've never used them I'm impressed with the finish that can be achieved with them.
Do you charge to fit them?
If so how much would they increase the price on say a 40 to 50 meter job?

There’s no real fixed number to a floor Andy, esp planks, it can vary depending on quality. What I tend to do is buy 2000 and divide cost over next few jobs by adding what I think I can get away with to cover cost of whole purchase. Probably a simpler way I’d say. Adding per m2 can look expensive to clients if you’re giving meterage rates, where loosing £50 is much simpler.

 

[Qwerty]

I just add onto the job the cost of the clips. Have yet to find a customer who doesn't want to pay it. To be fair they don't get a say! It's only because it's cheaper for me to use the clips then employ a professional tiler

 

[Old Mod]

It was so nice when I was alone to use clips

You were never alone Antonio, people just didn’t admit to it! Haha

 

[Spare Tool]

So now im being told that theese magic clips will bend the tiles,look ive only been tiling forty odd years i will stand at the side of any tiler worth his salt and make as good a job as he as quick as any tiler on this site or any other but the one thing i cannot do is make bowed tiles flat so for that reason im out

Where anywhere has anyone questioned your experience or fixing capabilities.
Next time you get a bowed plank Brian try putting them face to face and squeeze both ends, the planks will bend flat.. no?? Well thats what the clips do and hold till adhesive sets, there not magic, no hocus pocus going on!!