A new hello from the Isle of Wight!

[Clampers]

Hi Guys!
I've got about 100 Porcelain tiles to lay:yikes:
I'm going to be using my cheapie MACallister wet saw for internal corner cuts (not too many). The current diamond blade has done a fair amount of work - what signs should I look for to indicate that it needs replacement? Do they just get blunter & more inefficient or can you tell by the 'smoothness' or the edge of the blade or what? The diamond chips are still visible.
Thanks. Clampers (Isle of Wight)
PS I keep getting a message that tells me I should add my location to my profile - but I know I did!

 

[Gazzer]

Hello Clampers, welcome aboard TF.

 

[Gazzer]

If cutting is slow and the wheel edge glows when cutting its time for a new wheel.

 

[nybor62]

welcome to the forum

 

[Bubblecraft]

Hi & Welcome to TF

 

[peteablard]

:welcome:

 

[Clampers]

Thanks everyone & Sir Ramic! I'll watch for the steam first and take it from there.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Hi and:welcome:to TF

 

[AliGage]

Hi and Welcome.

Where abouts on IOW are you? I took the family there for holiday at the end of August. Me and the misses keep saying we'd love to relocate there.

 

[White Room]

Welcome to the forum....

 

[DHTiling]

Sometimes when a blade is slow to cut, then it can just need honing to release new diamonds, this can be done by running a piece of soft sandstone through the blade a few times dry, the best sandstone to use is walling stone... once the diamond rim wears down to around a couple mm then it needs replacing.

 

[Clampers]

Hi Guys - thanks for the warm welcome, TF's refreshingly active it seems! What I didn't mention was that they're 600x600 tiles - so about 35 sq. m !
Dave Howe Tiling - that's excellent, really useful, ill give it a go.
Schlüter Systems - thanks, I'll do that.
AliGage, I'm pretty central, just north of a place called Merstone with amazing views. Moved here from Soms/Wilts border - I thought I was retiring from designing / making Shaker furniture & kitchens and doing a bit of property development but it seems that my wife had other ideas - viz moving into a rather tired Georgian house and "...doing something for us now"
Hey-ho, such is life! Cheers guys!
Clampers
"Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?"

 

[AliGage]

We stayed at Whitecliff bay near Bembridge.
So you're nor working on the Barret developements in Newport then?