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Andrew Gabriel andrew@a17 wrote:
Depends on the tiles. I bought a £10 tile cutter, and it's done
two ceramic floors and one bathroom wall. You certainly don't need
anything more substantial for the wall tiles. For the floor tiles,
it was fine for scoring them, but not strong enough to snap them.
For that, I gripped them in the jaws of the B&D Workmate, and thumped
them with a fist. Both schemes had very few failures. For more
intricate cutouts, I used an angle grider for the floor tiles, but
this was still quite difficult. I used a tile cutting jigsaw bit for
the wall tiles (with the jigsaw clamped upside down in the B&D workmate,
making a sort of table jigsaw;-).

I'd *seriously* recommend a newbie to tiling to buy a wet diamond circular
saw cutter. They are very cheap these days and need little skill to use.
And are far safer than an angle grinder. And if cutting expensive tiles
have a near nil failure rate - unlike score and snap types, especially
when cutting very small bits. Sure, they're slow, but for a newbie this is
no bad thing.

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