Cutters - wet and dry -£200 budget?

[Fekin]

What do they call the wheel for the Master tiler, turbo blade or something ?

 

[GazTech]

Couple of traders just picked these up from me ...880watt...the most powerful small cutter in its class...highly rated.....Gaz

Rubi nd 125
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What do they call the wheel for the Master tiler, turbo blade or something ?

Mastertiler has a turbo blade Feks yes....Gaz

 

[thegwads]

so the rubi may be a better purchase than plasplugs master?
what price do you do the plasplugs and rubi?

 

[Fekin]

Master tilers 650w I think.... you ever struggle with any form of tile Gaz with the Master ?

 

[GazTech]

so the rubi may be a better purchase than plasplugs master?
what price do you do the plasplugs and rubi?

Sorry mate...we dont sell plasplugs anymore..as regards Rubi, with proof of quote we will price match.....Gaz
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Master tilers 650w I think.... you ever struggle with any form of tile Gaz with the Master ?

No never have struggled....my mastertiler is 8 yrs old now and still going strong...I have normal (for fine detail ) and turbo blade for ripping down.....Cracking cutter IMO.....Gaz

 

[billy123]

get the plasplugs and fit the marcrist 850 blade a hot knife through butter

 

[Leatherface]

Ho ho ho, it's that old leatherface again !!
My view ( sorry for repeating myself), is that you should spend as much as you can afford ( even get a loan ) for your core tools, ie wet cutter and rail cutter. It's simple mathematics. I have learned to my own expense after burning out 3 cheap £40 wet cutters. You have the wasted cost of replacing them & also the lost time.
If you buy a crap wet cutter it will take you twice as long to cut through your tiles ( especially if you are cutting hard porcelain, thick slate or marble) You can easily save at least an hour a day with a powerfull wet cutter ( perhaps more ) It doesn't take a mathematical genius to work out that in 12 months you could have paid for a decent wet cutter twice over. The same applies to mixers, I wasted about £100 burning out cheap B&Q drills for my mixing before I spent £100 on a decent one, hasn't let me down since.
Time is money !!!!
Good quality, efficient tools save time & therefore save money & also do not need replacing as often.
Do the maths ££££££££££££££££

 

[grumpygrouter]

Ho ho ho, it's that old leatherface again !!
My view ( sorry for repeating myself), is that you should spend as much as you can afford ( even get a loan ) for your core tools, ie wet cutter and rail cutter. It's simple mathematics. I have learned to my own expense after burning out 3 cheap £40 wet cutters. You have the wasted cost of replacing them & also the lost time.
If you buy a crap wet cutter it will take you twice as long to cut through your tiles ( especially if you are cutting hard porcelain, thick slate or marble) You can easily save at least an hour a day with a powerfull wet cutter ( perhaps more ) It doesn't take a mathematical genius to work out that in 12 months you could have paid for a decent wet cutter twice over. The same applies to mixers, I wasted about £100 burning out cheap B&Q drills for my mixing before I spent £100 on a decent one, hasn't let me down since.
Time is money !!!!
Good quality, efficient tools save time & therefore save money & also do not need replacing as often.
Do the maths ££££££££££££££££

Got to agree with Leatherface here. Last 2 jobs cost me dear not having a suitable wet cutter available at the start. Took sooooooooo much longer to do the work than it should have done.

Grumpy

 

[thegwads]

well, out to buy today, edging towards rubi wet cutter as above (880w) and big clinker i think - depends what deal i can get at my local stockist
i agree you need to get the tools and pay for it, but i was just wondering if a lot of tools out there are priced too highly just due to the good brand name and some of the lesser known brands are actually just as good?

 

[thegwads]

just picked up the master tiler wet cutter, £79 at b&Q, off now for the clinker i think.
anyone any experience of the rubi ts50?