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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

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.

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

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.