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.
Cutting Wickes Everest Slate Porcelain Tiles
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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.
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...
Light pressure, light scribe, hard scribe, 10 scribes, tap it, bang it...... didn't make a blind bit of difference...
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On one
Sounds about right.
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Blunt Tool
3C2 pull to score, 3C3M push to score plus more breaking power hence the M at end for max
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Blunt Tool
Wickes closed up here thank god!
Branded Wickes, but "Manufactured by a member of the Travis Perkins Group", tiles are stamped made in Turkey.
Nice finish on that, what cutter did you use for the width cuts? Did you not find scoring caused the glazing to chip?
Sigma cutter...
To avoid chipping, scribe first, then wet cut.....
To avoid chipping, scribe first, then wet cut.....
