Cutting Wickes Everest Slate Porcelain Tiles

[Andy Allen]

Out of interest who manufactures this tile?
And don't say Wickes......could be manufacturers name imprinted on the back(Johnsons?)

Wickes....

I don't know, but they need shooting !

Imo there over fired, and extremely brittle.
I tiled a bathroom with them, width cuts were ok, Length cuts I had to use a wet cutter for everyone.

 

[On one]

Wickes....

I don't know, but they need shooting !

Imo there over fired, and extremely brittle.
I tiled a bathroom with them, width cuts were ok, Length cuts I had to use a wet cutter for everyone.

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The ones I was having trouble with a couple of weeks ago were very similar.
I ended up turning them over and scoring the backs and snapping.......worked a treat every time.....logic says it shouldn't/couldn't work,but it did.

 

[Andy Allen]

Scribe these and they just keep running off line at the end.....
Light pressure, light scribe, hard scribe, 10 scribes, tap it, bang it...... didn't make a blind bit of difference...

 

[On one]

Scribe these and they just keep running off line at the end.....
Light pressure, light scribe, hard scribe, 10 scribes, tap it, bang it...... didn't make a blind bit of difference...

Sounds about right.

 

[Blunt Tool]

OK great, thanks I will look into that. I can't really find much info out regarding the differences between the 3c3m and the 3c2. Do you know what they are?

3C2 pull to score, 3C3M push to score plus more breaking power hence the M at end for max

 

[Blunt Tool]

Wickes closed up here thank god!

 

[JSmith1]

Out of interest who manufactures this tile?
And don't say Wickes......could be manufacturers name imprinted on the back(Johnsons?)

Out of interest who manufactures this tile?
And don't say Wickes......could be manufacturers name imprinted on the back(Johnsons?)

Branded Wickes, but "Manufactured by a member of the Travis Perkins Group", tiles are stamped made in Turkey.

 

[JSmith1]

Wickes....

I don't know, but they need shooting !

Imo there over fired, and extremely brittle.
I tiled a bathroom with them, width cuts were ok, Length cuts I had to use a wet cutter for everyone.

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Nice finish on that, what cutter did you use for the width cuts? Did you not find scoring caused the glazing to chip?

 

[Andy Allen]

Sigma cutter...

To avoid chipping, scribe first, then wet cut.....

 

[Bopster]

I’ve got 45sqm wickes to cut in June, I’ll be using my sigma 3dm and bridge saw.
Fingers crossed