Brutus Horseshoe Shim Tile Spacers for 1/16" Grout, Pail of 200

Spacers worked very well. Plenty of grip space for easy removal when mortar is set. Dry mortar cleaned off easily, just rubbing lightly with fingers.The outer width of the spacer is equal to the inner depth. That means you can use a pair of them at a 4-corner intersection, with one placed on its side and the other bridging over. There are spacers preformed as a cross. Obviously this "horseshoe shim" is not a cross but it's very handy that it can achieve a cross shim when needed.Unlike cross-shaped shims, these horseshoe shims also work well for a T-junction, which is all you have with a running bond pattern. See pics.The green spacers shown in the fifth pic are reversible: one side is a cross, the other is straight. They worked, too, but there's not much to grip. That's a small problem when wearing gloves, and a larger problem when removing shims the next day. The horseshoe shape is easier for removal, never needing more than fingers.Shims are color coded by thickness for 1/16" (blue), 1/8" (red), 3/16" (yellow), and 1/4" (black). Brutus uses the same color code as some other companies, such as QEP.Quality was consistent. In a bucket of 200 there was only one slightly mismolded plastic shim, and even then, most of it was usable. In two other buckets there were zero deformed shims.

The media could not be loaded. I bought these for my bathroom remodel and they were perfect for the subway tile. I also bought some small wedges that I could use to correct my lines when needed. There aren't that many in the container, but I was running 3x12 inch tiles, so I could work for about 4 hours and then had to stop as I would run out of spacers, but thats okay, I didn't want to work much harder than that. If you have smaller tiles or want to work more, buy 2 or 3 of the containers.

What can I say? Hot shoe shims are always great time savers. All appear to be uniform in size and have done an excellent job allowing me to use very few spacers on this job. They don’t crush but a few have bent a little in the process of use

Love these spacers. I do tons of mosaic tile installs for bathrooms and kitchen backsplashs and it was always a pain and very tedious trying to make sure there was no sag and the tiles kept clean grout lines within the mosaic sheet. These spacers are easy to use, easy to remove, and do exactly what I need them to do! Great buy. Am going to stock up on them, but what’s great is they are reusable. Two thumbs up!

Very happy I purchased these. I messed mine up pretty bad (not cleaning them well after a tile job). Thought I might just go buy some more but...turns out they're easy to clean off despite the fact that I've used them on thousands of square feet on my jobs over the years. Also, I commonly combine 2 together to achieve larger gaps and absolutely love these things! Easy to remove from mortar and virtually indestructible.

Night and day compared to the normal cross spacers, especially for lengthier tiles. Stacking to achieve different heights for around a tub or an alcove was one benefit. Easier to handle (since bigger) and also found you can hang a group of them off one that is set - which was handy. Wish I had purchased more - ran out with more thinset left!

I use this spacer as a supplement spacer. Meaning I had a primary spacer system and I use these to shim in different locations. They were great and the relatively inexpensive

Easy to remove, easy to use.....Good value