I love them....They break clean and they have a lot of torque....The biggest drawback is separating the caps and left over spacer at the end of each jobs which is really time consuming unlike a wedge system which is easy to separate the leftover spacer and wedge.
I'm super old school, and have just been using traditional spacers and adjusting the lippage by hand, and I am absolutely sick and tired of it. One of my tile suppliers suggested this system, and I'm about to get started on a pretty large job. Wish me luck!
hey enjoy your videos was wondering if this would work for hexagon tiles? Im a beginner about to lay tile in our bathroom and we have hexagon porcelain tiles?
Thanks BH absolutely, I'm about to use them on some hexagonal tiles myself. Assuming you mean the bigger ones (~9"). Make sure to throw some back butter on them if your floor isn't perfectly level, that will ensure you have good thinset coverage.
Glad to see a video specific to the Spin Doctors system and tips for it! I used it for my first tile job and thought it was very helpful. However, I'm a novice and even the RTC video didn't show how to collapse the ridges while leaving the spacers in place. I found that I would move the spacers around or pushing them out from underneath when pressing on the tile and moving side to side. Is there any advice you could give on that?
great question & yes that is definitely a concern with any tile leveling system.... be sure to back butter the tiles and use proper notch size when toweling depending on your tile size & substrate. thanks for watching!
I would like to jump in and add to this as well. Based on the physics of proper prep and installation, it is virtually impossible for a tile to be lifted with these systems. As a tile is embedded into the mortar and rocked side to side, the air from below is released. It now becomes extremely difficult to lift that tile out of the mortar, and you have created suction. The leveling system then uses the suction of the lower tile to draw the higher one down. Of course, your substrate must be flat (1/4" in 10', or 1/8" in 10' depending on your tile size) and your mortar must be mixed to manufacturers specification and be within the open time of the adhesive. Follow those guidelines, and you should have no problems!
Happy with how they leveled my 8 inch by 30 inch wall tile. Most of the black spacers did not break off cleanly and I spent just about the same time trying to remove them from the joints as I did installing the tile. Would not use again.
bummer - and you broke them off with the red caps still attached? Just surprised to hear, I've used these a bunch of times since I made this video and have never been left with more than 1 or 2 that didn't break cleanly... they are still my go-to leveling system, and the caps have held up really well to repeated use.
the problem is you got thinset in the holes of the black piece. Wipe to joint clean before spacing the thinset and so back butter to much and theyll break off cleanly
Didn't know about these thank you -- curious if the thread pitch is the same. Also I have pretty much only used 1/16" spacers w/ the spin doctors, I wonder if larger spacers don't break as easily.
