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Thought I could tile my kitchen backsplash in an afternoon, lol
The spacers kept sliding out of the wet thinset, so every row was crooked. I spent 4 hours just trying to get the first 3 square feet straight, then had to pull it all off. Ended up taking me the whole weekend to finish a job I thought would be done by dinner. Anyone got a trick for keeping those little plastic spacers in place on a vertical surface?
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hayden_martin293d ago
My cousin tried that same weekend warrior move and ended up with a backsplash that looked like a drunk spiderweb. I saw a guy online use little dabs of hot glue on the back of the spacers to hold them to the tile until the thinset grabs. Honestly, after my own tile disaster, I just pay someone now. That stuff is a special kind of frustrating.
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faithf772d ago
Hot glue on spacers is a genius hack for keeping things straight. It solves the main problem of them sliding around before the mortar sets. More people should try that before giving up and hiring out.
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