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I need to deal with Large glazed porcelain tile
Hello,
First off, a massive thanks to all the people that have offered their
advice on this forum. I'm a novice DIYer currently undertaking the
project of tiling my bathroom, mainly fuelled by financial reasons
rather than my confidence in tiling and whilst the work I've done so far
is nowhere near perfect and would be noticable to trained eyes, it
would almost certainly be going horribly wrong if it wasn't for this
forum.
Once my 600 x 300 glazed porcelain tile had been delivered, I was all
ready to nip down to B&M bargains to pick up some cheap and cheerful
tile adhesive when I thought I'd better do some reading, thank god I
did. I was under the naive impression that the bigger the tile, the
easier the job!
From levelling the wall, using bagged rather than ready mixed adhesive,
using acrylic primer rather than PVA, the list goes on. The advice on
this forum has saved me a lot of time and money, so thanks for that!!
I'm at the point now where I won't do anything until I've done a bit of
research.
One area I am struggling with is the cutting of the tiles. My first
purchase was a very bad one, I bought a handheld tile and glass cutter
which on the youtube promo video showed this wonderful piece of kit
cutting through all thicknesses of tile and glass up to 1/2 an inch
thick. Needless to say this so called 'amazing' cutter could not cut my
10mm porcelain tiles. My next purchase was a 450W wet cutter with
diamond blade from a well known DIY store which claimed to cut
porcelain, I was really impressed up until about 100mm into the first
tile when it decided it couldn't cut anymore. At this point I thought
the blade must be the problem, so I bought a better blade which cost
?11.00 and claimed to cut through granite, quarry tile, porcelain etc..
but the same happened again around 100mm. I've got about 30m to cut
which by my reckoning would cost about ?3,300.00 in blades at this rate 
I've done some more reading on the forum and the Big Clinker has had
some good reviews, I was however hoping to pick something up for around
?50 which I'm starting to think may be overly optimistic, I feel like
I'm throwing money away at the minute through trial and error.
I would be really grateful if somebody could offer some advice on this.
All the best
Jesse
