i am away to start to learn the art of tiling. im looking at the rubi ts range. i was wondering what size is best to get which will cover most tiles, i wont be doing big tiles just normal size.

i was thinking the rubi ts50 or 60 the green box.

can anyone tell me the difference between the red and green boxes? cheers

Green are normal, red are their Plus range, it has a higher breaking strength for the likes of tough porcelain. Tradetiler Rubi Manual Tile Cutters & Spares

You want a 700 to cater for 450's on a diamond, and large tiles straight even.

However if the budget doesn't stretch, get the biggest you can in the plus range.

(wait for the lads who use them to reply, when I last tiled a TS40 was fine for 90% of jobs believe it or not only a few years ago!)

so a rubi ts 50 would be good for all jobs roughly?

would just be standard tiles nothing special.

Why rubi, have you looked at other makes

no i knew a few folk that were workin on jobs at same time as me and they all had rubi? what would you suggest?

It's the cutting length. A 50 is good for cutting 30cm tiles on a 45 degree angle (or diamond pattern), problem is these days tiles aren't just 30cm. It'd be a shame to limit the jobs somewhat just for the sake of a couple of hundred quid. A decent job would pay for the extra. I think it's been discussed quite a bit, and the lads will correct me if I'm wrong, the cutter good for all jobs would have about 650 to 700mm cutting length and would have a good breaker. Due to the weight, eventually get a smaller 40/50 perhaps for the smaller wall jobs. 100mm ceramics, 6x6 or 8x8's that you might still fix these days in kitchens/bathrooms.

You asked which covered the most tiles, a 700mm one will. So a Rubi TX700 (n? is there an n at the end of them or something these days?) I think I read earlier today in a similar thread.

Checkout some of the other threads in the tools forum mate. Loads like yours.

~Id go for the TX, the TS 50 plus i have is rubbish on porcelain. The breaking mechanism isnt suited to hard tiles as they pressure is all wrong and makes them shatter

Originally Posted by redkev

no i knew a few folk that were workin on jobs at same time as me and they all had rubi? what would you suggest?

I have rubi's and a sigma with the click clock breaker which cuts upto 530mm and found superb for my needs..........

The rubi is a ts 40, 60 which I hardly use now and TX700n which also works for me for the larger tiles, cutters are a personal choice.

Like Scottley I found the TS rubbish on porcelain, personally if I was just starting again I'd make a TX 700 my irst purchase.

i have a ts50 plus and it is fine for ceramics useless on hard porcelain,go for the tx if your doing porcelain or look at the sigmas as well they have good feedback

Tx700 ........ You won't be disappointed.

Hi Red K,

I was in your position a few months ago and I understand your predicament. I bought a Genesis Pro 60 whilst I was on course at NETT. This was fine until my first big job, a bathroom with 10mm thick 600x300mm porcelain. I invested in a TX 700N from Dave at Trade Tiler, it was perfect for those hard tiles, eating the porcelain up for breakfast! It is big though. I have since bought a TS 40 Plus and this has turned into a real workhorse, I think I use it daily, its limitations are its size and the fact that it isn't any good for cutting on the diagonal with the breaker being fixed at the top. My advice is buy the best that you can afford and you will not go wrong with quality tools, they will pay for themselves very quickly.
Good luck.

Steve

See, I might have never bought one or really needed one, but I knew it'd be a 700, and I knew if it was Rubi it'd have to be a TX.