Paving Block Splitters

Angle Grinder..............

or more specifically a petrol disc cutter with a diamond blade will be better

ok, I have a 9" electric angle grinder but I find the larger grinders a bit of a beast and difficult to maintain square and straight cut.

I was thinking of using a tile cutter to give me a start then follow off with the angle grinder.

Kevin

If it's important that you get a proper straight cut on all sides hire a Brick Saw.

Sort of sawbench for bricks where the diamond wheel is mounted on a cantilever or sprung frame and can be brought down on the brick to give it a true cut. Most hire shops will have them.

Don't assume the kerbs are physically the same as the blocks. With the ones I used, they are much, much tougher. Diamond blade in angle grinder worked - but took very much longer than for the ordinary blocks.

My experience with hired splitters, and a friend's experience with a newly-bought one, were that they were useless on concrete block paviors, let alone heftier kerb blocks.

They may be OK for very straightforward "chop a block in half" cuts, but many jobs need something a bit more demanding, like slivers of block or angled cuts.

I bought a new 14 inch chop saw and diamond blade for blocks, and a secondhand petrol Stihl saw for kerbing block, and was very pleased with the results, if not the dust.