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    HELP! I need to cut a 73mm diameter hole in stone floor tiles

    Hi folks I am at my wits end, so I hope one of you chaps can help. :mad2: My wife and I recently forked out on some really nice, large 1cm-thick stone floor tiles, not knowing how hard they are to cut. After spending all afternoon with my hand drill and a 73mm diamond bit, which has left me...
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    How to cut 10mm stoneware? Is a cheap wet saw the way to go?

    Hi Guys, I need your help. I just bought my first apartment and I plan to tile my bathroom. I selected the tiles based on how they looked. I found out later that its 10mm stoneware and hard to cut. I plan to buy a cheap wet tile saw and install the tiles on the floor and the wall. I need to...
  3. O

    Cut though wall for patio doors

    I am an experienced DIYer and "finishing off" after a builder! We cut through the solid stone wall to install patio doors with an existing slate floor in situ The builder has laid DPC and put self level down in the threshold voids created. I have cut out damaged slates and levelled the floor...
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    How to cut Quartz 600 by 400

    What cutter would I need to cut Quartz 600 by 400 ? :smilewinkgrin:
  5. G

    tiling using a 3 way mitre ( can cut them )

    its 11pm and my head is hurting - probably over thinking this.. when you have a three way mitre on boxing in ( so you end up with a shelf essentially.. ) how do you tile, having cut the trim?..as in, which surface first? I feel it would be the top(shelf)? then place the trim along that edge...
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    smallest cut

    Whats the smallest cut you have got from you manual rubi or sigma cutter? mine is 10mm after stressing and pulling my hair out with a rubi
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    Floor tiling - Curve cut

    I am new to this forum and thinking to tile my bath floor on my own.... I have removed the toilet seat so I can put tiles underneath it. Now any recommended way to make holes so I can screw the toilet seat. I have just the manual tile cutter and Jigsaw with standard blade... Now I am...
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    How to cut fixed porcelain tiles up to door frame?

    I'm not a tiler. Hope that's OK! We had a new kitchen, and the builder laid the porcelain tiles. After he'd finished (and we'd paid him), we saw the line by the living room door wasn't straight. He apologised, and offered to cut it straight with an angle grinder, but he can't get to the edges...
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    any reason why 60 x 60 tiles cant be envelope cut into wetroom tray?

    Had a tiler come round to give a quote for tiling my bathroom. I have 60x60 porcelain to go on the floor and wanted them envelope cut into the wetroom tray. The guy was very against the whole thing and said I should only really be using mosaic. I've spent quite a few weeks reading these...
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    Cut mat and overly close wires...

    Hi, we have a bit of a problem, just installed a Climatech system in kitchen through to downstairs bathroom - we think the installation in the kitchen's fine as my boyfriend did it with my step-dad, then had to go to work so left step-dad to go through to bathroom. Unfortunately, he seems to...
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    Don't cut corners

    Relayed a bathroom floor today after cracks started appearing in the tiles, the customer lost the details of the tiler that done it originally so could not call them back, He had laid hardi on top of floorboards and the cracks were appearing where the hardi boards joined after close inspection...
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    A challenging cut?

    I'm soon about to tile my kitchen diner floor. I have a couple of questions... Firstly, what sized notched trowel should be used for 600x300 porcelain tiles being laid on a concrete floor? Secondly, the room has one challenging part, and that's a metal post that supports an overhead beam. It...
  13. T

    How not to cut joists

    Bath before removal Bath after removal Might need more than hardy backer board this time.:mad2:
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    tile cutter a not stright cut

    cutting tiles, say its 6inch one end, 7inch the other, pencil line, when I cut on my plasplug wet cutter, £30 job, it is quite hard to see the line with the brick coulered like water from the cutter, as im not cutting a straight line. is there a better cutter to place on a angle to cut? when it...
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    Sigma Kera cut upto 3 mtr tile cutter.

    Just been watching this vid on the new Sigma kera cut tile cutter.... i like the last section where you can cut the tile into thin strips for curving around a column etc.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCBSXKdx6pk
  16. Andy Allen

    plumber cant cut tiles..

    what a joke, lost a bathroom re-fit that me and my plumber quoted, to a plumber that said he could do the plumbing and tiling alot cheaper, customer rang me today to ask if i could pop round and cut the boarders for the plumber there swan neck boarders and he cant mitre or cut them, he told her...
  17. Andy Allen

    power cut..

    just had a power cut, no telly, lights, broadband, internet........worst 20 mins of my life...:lol:
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    Dry cut with dw24000

    Was having a thought today, is there any reason why the dewalt, or any other wet saw for that matter, can't be used without water? Surely with the right blade it would be possible. I'm not planning on doing it, the dust would be mental! Just thout with winter coming up and the water in the wet...
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    Possible to cut out section of tiles already on wall?

    Hello I need to replace a shower mixer valve that will involve some new pipe work and fittings which in turn will involve removing a section of wall tiles so I can get to the pipes. What I would like to do is remove a section of tiles from ceiling to floor and about .5 metre wide then making...
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    Cut wall or cut tray

    Hi, I'm having one end of my bathroom made into a wetroom, I have a retired professional tiler to do the job, unfortunately wetrooms were not in vogue when he was working, so he's are following the instruction leaflet. Everything's gone well so far, the subfloor drain and the marine ply...

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