Floor tile cutting dilemma

[Dit]

I need to make small curved and straight cuts in floor tiles to make them fit the bathroom doorway and bath edge. I tried with a (cheap) tungsten carbide blade which fits my jigsaw; used water to keep it cool but took way too long to make any headway, the jigsaw marked the tile and finished off breaking it!

Is there a diamond jigsaw blade? My friend once made cuts using an angle grinder but the cuts are too detailed for this. Do I have to take my tiles to the shop to be cut?

 

[gcol]

I'm sure Joe's read about one somewhere - maybe he'll be along soon to tell you about reading the back of a packet of blades. Of course, he won't have used one though.
Get a decent diamond blade for an angle grinder (a cheap angle grinder will do, but get a decent blade) and make the cuts with that - you can do 99% of all your cuts with this setup.

 

[Jasonb]

As Gcol says a grinder & diamond disc will do it. IF you don't have a grinder then it may work out cheaper to buy a dasic electric tile cutter to do all the straight bits and a pair of nibblers to finish the curves.

Jason

 

[Diyisfun]

As Gcol says a grinder & diamond disc will do it. IF you don't have a grinder then it may work out cheaper to buy a dasic electric tile cutter to do all the straight bits and a pair of nibblers to finish the curves.

Jason

Go to your local hire shop, A days hire is reasonable & you will get a good machine

 

[Dit]

Thank you people! I will get the diamond disc.My nibblers don't give a nice vertical edge to the cut, but those edges will be covered with silicone anyway.

 

[Thermo]

you can get small circular tile files for finishing the curved edges off with

 

[shenks]

After finishing my kitchen refit the only thing left to do was the tiling which would involve some intricate cuts... so I used a grinder with diamond disc for the main cuts and a dremmel for the fiddly bits.

It was quite easy using this method to get tiles to fit perfectly around pelmets and sockets etc.

 

[joe-90]

you can get small circular tile files for finishing the curved edges off with

I agree with Thermo. You can get diamond/saphire impregnated ones with a radius that goes from flat to semi-circular.