I need a tile cutter to do my bathroom with large tiles about 30x20 and my kitchen, 10x10.
Is it best to go for diamon wheel water cuters like...
http://www.screwfix.com/prods/83636/Pow ... Y?ts=70276
or ..
http://www.screwfix.com/prods/64932/Han ... tter-445mm
Best tile cutter..
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Re: Best tile cutter..
I'm assuming you mean CM and not inches with those dimensions?
Depends what type of tile you have, ceramic, porcelain, stone, glass....
You don't necessarily need a wet cutter, they make a horrible mess and get you soaked. Can make do with a decent rail cutter and a 4" angle grinder with a diamond disc. (Will be dusty but you can do it outside)
If you want an easy life buy a decent (expensive) rail tile cutter, Montolit, Rubi, Sigma etc, then sell it on ebay if you have no further use for it. My advice would be dont buy a cheap one as it will not pay off when it comes to making neat thin cuts.
Depends what type of tile you have, ceramic, porcelain, stone, glass....
You don't necessarily need a wet cutter, they make a horrible mess and get you soaked. Can make do with a decent rail cutter and a 4" angle grinder with a diamond disc. (Will be dusty but you can do it outside)
If you want an easy life buy a decent (expensive) rail tile cutter, Montolit, Rubi, Sigma etc, then sell it on ebay if you have no further use for it. My advice would be dont buy a cheap one as it will not pay off when it comes to making neat thin cuts.
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Re: Best tile cutter..
Ceramic tiles :- If you want to make life easy for you and speed the job up, get both a wet cutter ( key and segment cuts) and a dry rail cutter (straight cuts).
Porcelain tiles :- Ditto but beware some porcelain wont snap on a cheap (or even medium priced) dry rail cutter
Natural stone :- Just the wet cutter
Porcelain tiles :- Ditto but beware some porcelain wont snap on a cheap (or even medium priced) dry rail cutter
Natural stone :- Just the wet cutter
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Re: Best tile cutter..
The diamond wheel cutters are more flexible, for example if you want to cut a L shape out of a tile or if you want to cut a square hole out of a tile.
http://www.ultimatehandyman.org/video/t ... e-tile.php
But for straight tile cuts in ceramic or some porcelain the scribe and snap cutters are much quicker and quieter to use.
http://www.ultimatehandyman.org/video/t ... e-tile.php
But for straight tile cuts in ceramic or some porcelain the scribe and snap cutters are much quicker and quieter to use.