Tiling over painted wall and tile cutter recommendation?

[GaryMo]

I'd like to tile the kitchen, between work surface and top cupboards.
Currently it's painted. Would I need to do anything specifically to prepare the current surface before tiling?

Also, are the cheaper tile cutters any good, the ones with a cutting wheel and water tank? If so can anybody recommend one?

 

[jefoss]

get some masking tape, put on wall for 10 mins then pull off, if paint comes off it needs to come off.

cheap cutters can be more of a hinderence than help, for inexpensive but good for a couple of uses look for plasplugs wet cutters, and any dry cutter for around £50 should be good enough, if you want the pro cutters use rubi ones.

hope this helps

jef

 

[GaryMo]

Thanks Jef, it helps very much.
Paint should be good as walls were reskimmed a while ago. I coated the walls with thinned down paint before final coats.

 

[Bilioustrumpstaine]

Some good kit on here

http://www.tradetiler.com/