I would like to buy a diamond tipped tile cutter to cut some ceramic wall tiles 600x300x10mm for a bathroom. There several products on the market for less than £50.
Any recommendations as to which one to get?
They are often described as wet. Do they all keep the blade cool by having it in water when it is below the table?
Not quite sure what you mean by 'diamond tipped'. It sounds as though you're thinking of a scribe. But if you men a cutting saw, with a diamond wheel, then I have an early Plasplugs one, a previous version of this
All they are is a motor, a diamond blade and a water trough. The blade is all that counts, and can be changed anyway.
Yes. It fills ups with tile sludge after a few hours. The blade sprays sludge and water everywhere. Even with the guard down.
You mean a table saw type one?
Yes - the underside of the blade runs in water.
Make sure the bed is big enough for your tiles. Some of the smaller ones would be a PITA with 600mm tiles. The reason I bought a bigger one. It's not a vast amount bigger, but it makes all the difference.
I have a Plastplugs one - or rather two. The original smaller one OK for small tiles, but the later larger one has an induction motor so quieter in operation and allows a longer duty cycle. But cost about £100 many years ago. The bed size on it is approx 600 x 400mm, and for 600mm tiles I'd not want anything smaller. To be fair, there was nothing like the number of makes on the market all those years ago, so may well be cheaper today.
The type where the saw moves - rather than the work - are interesting. But have no experience of them - mainly because they are so large I'd have storage problems.
Yes, I have a smaller one and made a wooden platform that sits along side it for larger tiles. Dont rush the cuts for a decent finish. As mentioned they are a bit messy.
+1 I've cut Dutch Light sized glass sheets (730 x 1422mm) on my little Plasplugs saw. Just arrange a pattern of bricks on the garage floor to support the whole area of whatever it is you're cutting, and take it gently.
I spent an hour cutting a small bit of 1" deep sandstone paving slab, before giving up rushing into town, hiring a diamond angle grinder, then doing the rest of the cuts and rushing back - in less than 50 minutes 'What's wrong?' the guy asked "Nothing: Job done!".
I've used one of those, for 300mm, 8mm thick porcelain tiles. It has a water get aiming at the cutting point, and you can do things like 45degree mitres on the edges of tiles, as well as accurate vertical cuts of the exact length required. But I think they would cost 10+ times the OP's budget and they are a bit big. Also, and this was one of my use cases, you can accurately cut sheets of loosely fixed mosaic tiles by putting them on a non-slip rubber base and bringing the wheel down vertically on them. Feeding the sheet onto the side of a wheel would not work.
Thanks for everyones answers any recommendations for blades?
Since you've quoted Turnip, best not to take too much notice of him. Those who have used these things for a variety of tiles soon find out they are not all the same.
I did a very large bathroom top to toe with porcelain tiles. All with just one wheel. My two Plastplug units use a different size blade - and the expensive one with the larger blade seems a lot kinder on them. Make sure you don't run out of water, and let the blade do the work.
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