rock hard porcelain

[sWe]

When cutting ultra hard porcelain, it is extremely important to score only once, and it has to be smooth and of even depth, otherwise the tile is going to shatter when you try break it. If you score more than once, the scoring line will become uneven, and that will result in a shattered tile most of the time.

Oiling the guide rail/rods and using a fresh scoring wheel helps alot.

When you break the tile, it is paramount to concentrate the breaking force in one short, swift movement, and the movement range of the breaker must be short.
This is why I prefer manually adjustable breaking systems to auto adjusting ones.

 

[DHTiling]

There is a new range of porcelain bodied tiles out that have a thick 1.5mm glaze on them and makes them virtually impossible to break on a dry cutter....sometimes scoring the back and the face of the tile helps...but is difficult to obtain a clean cut.....wet cutter with a continous porcelain rim blade for best results......

 

[sWe]

Haven't come across any of those. What are they called?

 

[DHTiling]

Can't remember the make..will check next time i'm in the tile shop.....

 

[Spud]

Try and get your hand on a Nuova Battipav Super Pro 600 this will breeze through the tile.

We started using them at our centre a few months back and they are a different class to Rubi.

Its got spring loaded beds either side and has a 2000 kg breaking capacity.

We have tried cutting everything with it and it performs every time without fail.

If your interested in getting yourself one let me know.

Good luck mate

i agree i have the superpro 750 the best porcelain cutter i have ever used best slide cutters around ,i have come across some of the copper metallic ranges that it wont cut though and had to cut these on a wet saw but 99/100 tiles it cuts perfectly ,good post essex tiling

 

[The Lowestoft Tiler]

I have just finished a floor with tiles that were so hard, i could not break them with my Rubi cutter! I scored the tile, removed it from the bed, placed a small steel bar under the score and stood on the tile each side and the tile would not break! now i did this just to prove to the customer how hard they were!
I had to cut all of the tiles with a diamond blade on my grinder, scored them first and blade went like a knife in butter.
The tiles were Edimax "space" i used the 600 by 600, 600 by 300 and the tiny brick tiles. Job came out really nice and the customer is happy as Larry!

 

[enduro]

Starting a bathroom on monday, tiles are 500x300x11 porcelain from fired earth, got a hold of a sample and the bugger simply wont cut on a dry cutter, tried my trusted sigma ,no chance!! then tried scoring with the rubi and tapping on the handle, broke everywhere bar the scored line, so it looks like doing all the cuts with a wet cutter, unless anyones got a better idea ?? :mad2:

Sounds like the ones i did the other week from Fired Earth, i did a post about them, and as you say only way to cut them is a wet cutter, even my rubi tx900 with a brand new wheel would not cut these. Had to drill them and bought some drills from 365Drills and they worked a treat.

 

[andy-p]

Try and get your hand on a Nuova Battipav Super Pro 600 this will breeze through the tile.

We started using them at our centre a few months back and they are a different class to Rubi.

Its got spring loaded beds either side and has a 2000 kg breaking capacity.

We have tried cutting everything with it and it performs every time without fail.

If your interested in getting yourself one let me know.

Good luck mate

looked that cutter up on the net, looks the business, that breaking capacity is about twice the rubi innit! but even that cutter wouldnt break these suckers, gonna have to set up the old bridge, i canny wait.. :furious3: :lol: the tiles are called ethos white from fired earth, beware...

 

[Deleted member 1779]

As the posts above say - dont forget your 365drills.....

Will work very well on the ultra-hard tiles. Wont break them. And at £49.99 are excellent value for money. (Price quoted for the all-in-one solution)

AVAILABLE HERE

(tile drill results in very hard tiles)

 

[DHTiling]

If its porcelain this cutter will cut it. We have tried cutting everything with this cutter just to see how far we can push it , we have cut 15mm porcelain on it and although it was extremely tough to break it still managed it.

It will save you half the time

If it's the tile i.m thinking of dan....NO!! dry cutter will touch it....it is porcelanato bodied and has a thick glaze , so when combined together with the grade 5 hardness of the biscuit it just won't break cleanly.....

I will get the name of the tile i'm thinking of t/moz........