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Spent $80 on a tile leveling system that just made things worse
I was tiling my kitchen backsplash in Phoenix and figured the spin doctors were a must have. Watched a couple videos where they looked foolproof. After 3 rows I had to rip half of them out because the clips were snapping off inside the gaps. Ended up using a straight edge and old school spacers like my grandpa showed me. Has anyone else had a bad experience with those spin leveling systems or did I just get a cheap knockoff?
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patricialee3h ago
Maybe it's just me but I see people stressing over tile leveling systems all the time and honestly it seems like more trouble than it's worth. @the_nathan is right that spin doctors are overpriced junk, but even the expensive ones probably cause just as many headaches. A straight edge and some old school spacers have been working fine for decades and nobody's kitchen fell apart because of it. I mean, pulling out half your work to fix snapped clips sounds way worse than just taking an extra five minutes per row with the old method. Sometimes the simple way is the better way even if it doesn't look as cool on YouTube.
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