Tile Solutions 13″ Tile Cutter
I recently bought the Tile Solutions Tile Cutter at Lowes to do a mid sized kitchen job. Approximately 225 square feet worth of 12″ ceramic floor tiles. The tiles were expensive so I was hoping to save a few bucks on a tile cutter because there were not a bunch of tiles that needed cut. I think I counted 14 of them.
The tiles I got were 12″ square and 1/2″ thick, and the specs on the tile cutter were that it is supposed to handle 13″ tiles up to 5/8″ thick. Should be fine right? Wrong!
No word of a lie, after trying to cut the 2nd tile the sonsabitching handle snapped right off! Man was I steamed. I even tried to jury-rig it by putting a vice grip pliers on it and using it for a handle. This worked for a pc or 2 but my hand was ready to fall off.
Funny thing is the directions say you are only to score the tile one time…well I had to do it 3 times to get a worthy score to even break these tiles.
The official Berate.com rating on this product is very low. I took it back and got the Tile Solutions 17″ Tile Cutter which is twice the price, but worked like a charm. Don’t waste your time messing with the dinky 13″ cutter unless you are cutting very thin tiles. It is well worth the money upgrading to the better tool.
On October 29, 2010 trudy wrote:
handle broke after the 10 tile and almost blinded me thank goodness I had safety goggels on!
On October 29, 2010 cbmech wrote:
I was able to cut one 4×4 ceramic tile, and that was it. On the second tile it broke. Spend the $19 towards a wet saw.