Electric Diamond Wheel Tile Cutter

i tile too, i use a plas plugs one with no problems.

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

Gid, I've only ever done normal ceramic tiles, so don't know whats best for porcelain, etc (EDIT: I don't really know whats best for ceramic!). Do you rate the electric tile cutters? My stepfather bought one of the plasplugs ones and ended up taking it back for a refund and hiring a Rubi manual cutter. I've never bothered with an electric one, partially because of his bad experience and partially because I can't think of anything easier than, line-up, score, break, cut complete. I imagine messing around with water and on/off buttons, etc to be a complete ball ache.

the plasplug cutter that was mentioned are really good for the price.They have a built in water trough and not a slide in one ,like many makes.On average they last me abour 18months to 2 yrs and that is used everyday.
I have just bought 3 to last me for the yrs to come.
Only use them for angles corners etc and a dry cut "clinker" for the straights.Dont really like the "rubi" cutter because they have a seperate breaking leaver that brings a point up under the tile ,before the two breaking arms come down.This can lead to heavy porcelain tiles smashing.

Originally Posted by gid

the plasplug cutter that was mentioned are really good for the price.They have a built in water trough and not a slide in one ,like many makes.On average they last me abour 18months to 2 yrs and that is used everyday.
I have just bought 3 to last me for the yrs to come.
Only use them for angles corners etc and a dry cut "clinker" for the straights.Dont really like the "rubi" cutter because they have a seperate breaking leaver that brings a point up under the tile ,before the two breaking arms come down.This can lead to heavy porcelain tiles smashing.

Cool, thanks, sounds like my stepdad needed to RTFM, I'll get one for my next tiling job then.