Just a tip for DIY tilers who have not used an electric tile cutter before. Where it might be better from a finish point of view to cut straight cuts with the face of the tile down this should not be done where two cuts intersect at 90 degrees or any other angle for that matter as the cutting wheel will have to overcut the face of the tile . You need to mark out the area to be cut out with a black marker on the face of the tile and cut to these lines face up. Then the unsightly "overcuts" will be hidden at the back of the tile. Luckily where I did it wrong initially will be just about covered by the stainless steel faceplate of the socket.
Normally use a "Rotazip" for fiddly don't see them on sale much these day since Bosch bought the company. Otherwise have a variety of wet and old fashioned scoring ones
Well I must have spent well over £1000 to fully tile a kitchen and utility room. As the adhesive is £20 a tub, £40 for a cutter seems very good value. I bought it in response to a previous thread on here. I am really pleased with it.
When i tiled the house before last my wife knew the owner of the tile shop and he lent me a lovely tile cutter for free. It was lovely to use as i was cutting quite thick tiles!
I cut the 2 vertical lines as per usual, face up, wet cutter Flip tile over and mark horizontal with a Sharpie Remove guard from blade, crouch down to blade level and holding tile, use top of blade to score across the line, slightly going past the vertical cuts Once scored, just snap of using pincers. Any slight unevenness is covered by socket faceplate Works for me but, you do get a bit wet once guard is removed and, watch ur fingers
I have a makita glass cutter it is 25yrs old battery powered ,perfect for cutting out light switches can be used as a plunge cutter and has its own water container,no dust just perfect cuts.
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