Tile cutter review

Score & snap Machines

Cheap models tend to produce a lot of breakage
Better ones costing north of £30 don't suffer much unwanted breakage
Rubi Star received mixed reviews
Montolit - good & durable

Hand held scorers

Diamond table saws

Erbauer

Does the job no problem
Some water spray but not a lot, even with the guard up
Comes with a 45 degree cutting tile holder
On off switch is a bit fiddly
Comes with an RCD plug
Fence has to be adjusted and clamped at both ends separately
The ruler strips that help you line the fence up aren't accurately positioned
The ruler strips peel off, this is really not helpful.
The steel table top rusts readily
More than powerful enough

Plasplugs

clean accurate cuts
Plastic table doesn't rust
Have even been used to cut concrete slabs

QEP

Cuts cleanly
Plastic rip fence doesn't look orbust
Blade guard fouls cover of water bath, aqnd has to be removed each time to add water

Titan

Topps

Larger Diamond blade saws

"My Duhrer Teide Sliding table saw (snag at £60 and a day- trip from ebay) is very good, but not exactly a sensible buy new for anyone."

Manual saws

On uk.d-i-y the orange plastic hacksaws sold as tile saws were strongly criticised. An abrafile blade for an ordinary hacksaw was successful.

Others

Good results have been had with a hand held grinder on thick marble tiles, using an expensive continuous rim Norton "hard material" blade against a straight edge. It left a good clean edge.