me again guys lol. have got a wet saw but have heard of people using angle grinders can any1 tell me there pros and cons ? cheers jay

angle grinders are handy for the odd L cuts or cutting holes, round cutting and the like

try a briccolina wet cutter, you can use it indoors nice and quiet, and a good clean cut, otherwise you are working outside, with both normal wet cutters and grinders, not to good if it is p***ing it down

Jason, grinders are dusty and more difficult to control the cut than a wet saw....

grinder gets through porcelain so much quicker than wet saws and the blade i just got from tradetiler no chips

Use one of the makita with the water bottle on, Only for the very odd cuts

Originally Posted by blez

grinder gets through porcelain so much quicker than wet saws and the blade i just got from tradetiler no chips

That would depend on what wet cutter and blade you were using

i use my 4 inch grinder all the time now only use wet cutter for fragile wall tiles so much quicker

and what wet cutter do you use ?

ive got rubi dw 200 a small rubi table saw plasplug mastertilier ( thieves dont nick this one) rubi tx 700 (great for porcelain ) bit heavy though

Originally Posted by GazTech

Jason, grinders are dusty and more difficult to control the cut than a wet saw....

I'll go with that.

Just finished a job with 900X300 jobbies..........never had (and left it to late to hire) a big enuff wet cutter.............only option was grinder it worked a treat, but the neighbours were complaining about the dust in there house's down the road (cut outside the front door)

the makita from dave at trade tiler is fantastic

When I think about it, there's still a tonne of tools I still want to get my hands on

i also have a bunch of score and break cutters. But for wet cutting i use a plasplugs master tiler wet saw with a marcist blade. These blades are expensive but they half your cutting time and last ages. Cuts any tile any size pretty quick. I've also got a makita hand cutter with the bottle on, genius little thing. ideal for doing kitchen walls, plugs tec. Also great when there is no power.

i once inspected another tilers work for some woman who was distraught. She'd had her hallway tiled and the tiler had done a poor job but worse was all the dust on every part of the house including the walls. It was a brand new house aswell. This guy had been armed only with a grinder and done all the work in the house. Let that be a lesson to the woman. Get an amatuer, get amatuer results.

Grinders are good for doing cuts etc as the guys say but messy.

Hey Faceman, I was speaking to an acrylic shower installer 2 weeks ago, he told me of a job he did where the tiler was cutting inside a house with an angle grinder. Anyway, he installs the shower and later that night he gets a call from the tiler who says "You did a crap job with your silicone". Next day he checks it out and finds the silicone cured and totally encrusted with tile dust

Ive got the rubi DU200L bridge cutter that cost about 600quid including stand and blades, My angle grinder (free from Brian)+£35 blade is far quicker cutting through porc. Its far more mobile, Once you have practiced with it for a while you can easily follow a line within +/- 1mm. So for me its the angle gringer every time.

but if you can afford it might aswell import the handheld dewalt wet tile cutter

I've got a nice scar on back of my hand from an angle grinder, now what was the question again?

hi Jason i've used an angle grinder with a turbo blade but it has outlasted the old ordinary diamond blades i used to use by a long way it might have cost 34 quid but it's probably earned its worth tenfold, as for wet saws i find them too messy and a pain to set up and clean up all the time, i will use a wet saw on natural stone and such but i find the angle grinder much easier to use. all the best Mike

90% of the time i am only doing site work, if i know i am on site then i don't even bother putting a wet cut cutter in the van. However if i am on a domestic then i will load a wet cutter, if weather is nice i will set up grinder ouside.
On site you are good to go 90% of the time and dust isn't a problem, when it is a dust extractor and hoover gets clipped on. Can't do that in a house.

If you can use a grinder well then it is MUCH faster than using a wet cutter.
Use the correct blade.

Get yourself a Norton Aerojet or a Rubi blade specific for the the job, stick with good quality, a Marcrist can't cope half as much as thes blades, unless you want bendy cuts.