Does anyone (or their DP/DH) have an electric tile cutter? I am looking for info/instructions.

[SlightlyMadSweet]

this sort of thing.

I have borrowed one.

It says on the box of the new ones that it can do semi-circular cuts for pipes.

this is the type of cut I want to do - aparently I can do it with teh electric saw - but how?

Anyone got one of the new models with instructions that will tell me how to do it?

Is it just a case of making a series of paralle cuts at right angles to the tiles edge?

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You can - but it is the parallel cuts I'm afraid

Make sure they are different lengths to follow your curve

& I always made them not too close together but that isn't always the right way tbh

I always ended up with a ragged edge which I filled with grout

hmm...I thought as much.

So which is going to be better.

Toil & hard work with a tile blade on a hacksaw and a tile file...and lots of patcience.

Or paralell cuts with teh electric wizzy, scary thing?

It needs to be reasonably neat as my (D)P and (D)B have bodged my showed and now my "cover up the crap tiling" decrotaive thingys won't fit.

Hmm - neither at 10:30 on a sunday?

No worries...I am not doing it now.

My tiles havn't even arrived yet.

Practise on a few old/cheap tiles then decide?

Thats what I am try to tell him.

His line is "nah it'll be alright"...

I have heard that about 6 times over the last week...before the repairs/touch-ups have been necessary

Tell him every time he breaks a tile he can have no beer(/chocolate/favourite thing) for a day

i have a similar tile cutter, I believe my dh drillled holes close together to form a curve then broke off the excess. I reckon filing by hand would achieve the neatest curve. Wear gloves when you grout as the stuff is corrosive and quite an irritant to the skin

TBH Katy - I suspect I will get the job of cheif tile cutter anyway...except the whizzy thing is scary cos it might hurt me [wuss].

DP doesn't have the patience for this kind of thing.

Hence the reason I have been on my hands an knees all weekend laying a hardboard floor - cutting around the basin/loo etc.

Gosh no Whizzy thing is great not terribly cutting (try to avoid small bit of tile) - I loved it

I did a 3ft squre mosaic with mine

I know...I did the kitchen too, wouldn't do without it.

Still scares me though.

And I have to put a new blade on so it will be sharp