Hi all, I'm a carpenter/joiner by trade but find myself doing a lot of kitchen and bathroom fits at the moment and do a fair bit of tiling with this.
I'm after a dry cutter that will handle ceramics and porcelain tiles, I don't really need a huge cutter just a good all rounder that will kitchen and bathroom tiles. Saw a video of one of the Montolit cutters cutting mosaic tiles...looked brill, will most of the new cutters do this or is it a Montolit speciality?
My old cutter was a Rubi but it does seem to struggle on some tiles. Any suggestions would be great....Montolit, Rubi or Sigma.
Cheers folks.

Hi tomba, the sigma 3B is a 63cm cracking cutter.
Cuts everything with ease.

everyone will have an opinion jaundiced by the cutter they use at the moment
rubi ts range is good all rounder but struggles with porcelain ,sigma can be a little ott on ligther tiles
at the moment i use a monolit,simple answer is it depends on what your cutting.

Hi and welcome...

I have sigma and rubi but the the sigma with a klick klock cutting action would be a good all rounder for the porcelain IMO..

You should get a good variation of views on this subject about cutters..

welcome!

For me I find that it is a " must " for a cutter these days to have a moveable breaker system. This assists in the clean breaks after scribing of porcelain tiles. So that leaves the main contenders as ...
Montolit
Rubi TX range
Sigma, push or pull
It would be unwise really to buy an "All rounder" machine any less than cutting capacity of 600mm.

Thanks for the help folks, much appreciated.
Looking at the replies it would seem a bigger machine is favourite (Ihad been looking at the smaller Rubi TS40 Plus), how do these bigger machines cope with smaller 150mm ceramic tiles, is the breaking power not too much for them?
Thanks.

A Rubi TX 700 would suit you but at times you will find it too big. Its just the way it is ! If you were fixing 100mm tiles or 150mm tiles all the time then it would be over kill. Its just that the most popular tile is about 330mm and almost every week I get tiles of 600 x 300 to cut.
In a perfect world I would suggest 2 cutters, 1 for up to 400mm and one up to about 700mm.

Try and steer away from the Rubi TS range though.

Originally Posted by tomba26

Thanks for the help folks, much appreciated.
Looking at the replies it would seem a bigger machine is favourite (Ihad been looking at the smaller Rubi TS40 Plus), how do these bigger machines cope with smaller 150mm ceramic tiles, is the breaking power not too much for them?
Thanks.

The bigger machines will cut smaller tiles much the same even mosaics with ease

i use a sigma 3b for larger tiles (up to 600mm) for small tiles i use a sigma 7, it's a handy size, fits on the worktop when tiling a splashback and cuts up to 300mm

what size tiles do you cut most of the time?......the ideal situation would be to have 2 cutters, if you mainly cut smaller tiles 330 and below i would look at spending the bulk of my money on this cutter, then maybe try and find a second hand cutter to cut up to 600, no point in spending a small fortune on a cutter, that sees the light of day 2/3 times a year.

as for which type of cutter, what have you been using so far?........once or twice on here we have had the odd 'rubi' or 'sigma' debate

however as always its down to personal preference, and what your used to using

You could buy a Rubi tile separator. Which will separate most tiles once scored.

Better just buying a Sigma which will seperate all tiles once scored.

Originally Posted by sts1

You could buy a Rubi tile separator. Which will separate "most " tiles once scored.

Hence the need for more than 1 cutter,