Most leveling systems make you choose: spacers to set the joint, a separate clip-and-wedge system to kill lippage, and then the cleanup — digging plastic remnants out of grout joints and hoping the clip didn't chip a rectified edge on the way out. The MLT Space & Break clip is the first-ever patented answer that does both jobs at once and cleans up after itself.
It's a spacer and a lippage-control clip in one: it sets your joint width and pulls adjacent tiles flush when you tension a wedge into it. Then the patented clean-break technology does exactly what the name promises — it always breaks below the tile at the base plate, so there's never a plastic remnant left in the grout joint and never a chipped edge, even on rectified tile. Because the design also keeps the clip from getting pinched between tile edges, it works as cleanly on walls as it does on floors.
The base plate is thin by design, so it fully encapsulates in the thinset for a solid bond instead of interfering with your mortar coverage. And removal is where you really feel the difference: extremely fast and reliable — a serious time-saver across a large floor — snapping out clean with a mallet or the MLT RAM tool. Set your joint at 1/16" or 1/8", drive MLT Space & Break wedges to tension, and you've replaced three products with one. Made in the USA.
Pro tip: Because the clip breaks below the surface, you don't have to baby the removal — a quick strike parallel to the joint snaps it clean. Back-butter for full coverage so the thin base plate encapsulates completely, and remember these set the joint themselves, so plan your spacing around the clip width you choose.
