are the ruby porcelain nippers good for acurate nipping of porcalain around toilets etc. and do they work on all porcalain tiles.

I've never used them steve so can't comment......i just use standard rubi nippers and they work fine...

are you on about the ones that look like metal cutters

yes they are metal and orange in colour

i brought some of those about 2 years ago
found them rubbish
still sitting in the bottom of my tool bag waiting to find some use for them

Regular nippers work just fine on porcelain if you use the correct technique. You're supposed to just grip the tile lightly with the nippers, and then break away small pieces with a flick of the wrist. Far more accurate than the scissoring action I've seen many use, and it carries less risk of damaging the tile. Cleaner break as well.

If you need to break away a thinner piece than your cutter can handle, just score the tile with the cutter and use the nipper wrist-action I described. With a little practise, you can break away really long, thin pieces in just one movement which takes only seconds.

I almost only use scissor action nippers on mosaics.

ok do they not work well or do you just use general purpose rubi nippers for porcalain floors and do the standard ones work for cutting around toilets??

Standard nippers will be fine steve.....

ok thanks for the advice

Originally Posted by paulmsd

i brought some of those about 2 years ago
found them rubbish
still sitting in the bottom of my tool bag waiting to find some use for them

Same as

Originally Posted by steve9999

ok do they not work well or do you just use general purpose rubi nippers for porcalain floors and do the standard ones work for cutting around toilets??

It's easy to damage the tile with the scissor action nippers. The do have uses, but that nieche is quite slim. General purpose nippers are almost always better. And the finish with certainly be neater.

I tend to prefer nippers with an offset jaw. They allow for more control in my opinion.

the springs broke on my pair.
as well as nippering tiles , i often nipp my hands . happy days

save the £20 and keep with the standard nippers ;0)

first thing i do with my nippers is remove the spring ..old habits die hard