tool rental

[johnryan]

hello all, was wondering if anyone in the kent / london area knew a good place to hire tools from. am looking to rent a large format tile cutter (dry), preferably sigma but rubi is good too. need one in a couple of weeks. any advice greatly appreciated. cheers.

john

 

[Qwerty]

John, my advice to you is to buy a new cutter and sell it on after you have finished. It will probably work out cheaper and nearly new cutters sell for good money!

 

[cam_low]

what size....large format these days is 1m long !!!

 

[Ian]

I'm in London for the next 2 weeks and have a tx900 and 1200, if that is any use to you.

 

[johnryan]

thanks for the replies. as far as buying one, i do intend to get a large format cutter (1200mm) but thought if i can rent first i can get to try them out. that's why i was hoping to rent a sigma as i've never used one so when i do eventually get one i'll have some first hand experience of both rubi and sigma. it's quite a big expense £500+ so want to get it right. will probably get the tx1200 but heard so much about sigmas i'd love to give one a try.
and tiles on this job are 900x600 cam so not quite 1000mm but almost. they're certainly large format for me . only ever done 1200x600 once before and this size just a few times. got 900x600x20 marble here too, wish it was all stone i'm already kitted up for that, but most of it is the big porcelains. i suppose i can cut the porcs on my wet cutter, but that's a bit slow.
and thanks for the offer bri, but this job doesn't start for another 2 weeks, and may yet get put back further. problems with the plasterers and steel there holding everything up. havent heard that combo before. normally plumbers and sparks dragging their feet.

 

[prceramics]

an angle grinder a length of batton and two little clamps will cut any size tile

 

[Spud]

Trim line in Sydenham will hire you anything a tiler needs

 

[mike1979]

I love sigma cutters buy it and trust me it will last years oil it everyday stick a titanium wheel on it job done mines 15 years old and I can not part with it