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Alan.P
You say the floor 'will be' is the chip board down yet ?
DIY Tiler - 90 sq m of large format porcelaine tiling making me nervous!
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PJPro
Are they competitively priced?
yes use dry cutter for straight cuts
but you need a wet cutter or a grinder with a tile cutting blade in it for angled cuts
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PJPro
OK. Thanks. Am I better off with a cheap (ish) saw or just get a blade for the grinder?
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Gazzer
if you have a wet saw then fine but a grinder with a decent wheel is great too.
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PJPro
Nope. But it's been bought and is on site. The Project Manager says the chipboard / hardybacker combo is the approach they usually use for their jobs.
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Gazzer
Very and he does a price promise thingy. Tradetiler should be a patron saint to all tilers...highly respected for his services.
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PJPro
Could you recommend a cheap(ish) wet saw and suitable replacement blade. As I mentioned earlier, the plasplugs seems a popular choice.
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PJPro
OK. I'll give them a whirl.
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guil.rocha
grinder all the way. Bosh makes good blades but make sure to go for the solid disc instead of the the ones that have splits in them.
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Gazzer
Plasplugs is great if you can get one. tradetiler sell the Vitrex version. Marcrist wheels are a good replacement too.
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Alan.P
long winded expensive way to go in my humble opinion, better off with 18 - 25mm wpb, and tile to this, with suitable preparation.
Briccolina 230V Electric Diamond Tile Wet Saw
i just bought one of these,very nice to work with and cheap too,,porc blade is 35 extra
i just bought one of these,very nice to work with and cheap too,,porc blade is 35 extra
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PJPro
wpb? .
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Gazzer
Water proof Ply or should i say Weather and boil proof....why you would boil ply though, I dunno 😉
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White Room
Buy a wickes cutter and change the blade, cheap and cheerful
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PJPro
Interesting. I thought there was a move away from ply hence hardybacker, no more ply, etc
ive often wondered how theyd fit it in the pot
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PJPro
Can it handle a 600x400mm tile? I need something with a nice, large, supportive top ( if it's anything like a table saw).
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DHTiling
Personally, i would always use hardi now.. whether onto the chipboard or the ply.. much more stable to tile too..
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Gazzer
Ahh now we enter differing methods. i always overboard with backerboards.
I would do away with the Chipboard and us ply and overlay with backerboard if it were my house. Far more stable.
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PJPro
Hmm. Unfortunately, your good advice has come too late. Perhaps I should have joined this forum earlier? My bad.
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White Room
If your doing right angle cuts, do a wet cut into the right angle then dry cut, that where a good dry cutter comes into there own.
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PJPro
It's been a long day so I need to put my head down! I'm not used to physical work.
Thanks very much everyone for your help and advice and will be back on tomorrow to let you know what I've bought.
Thanks very much everyone for your help and advice and will be back on tomorrow to let you know what I've bought.
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DHTiling
Sleep tight..🙂
Don't forget PJ to post pics of the work as you go so the guys can give advice, just think you nearly PVA'd the walls so it was a good thing you came on here.
PVA is for plasterers and has no place in the tiling world.
PVA is for plasterers and has no place in the tiling world.
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doug boardley
imo the "N" isn't worth the extra, it just has a longer guide rail that can get in the way
I can't believe this is a five start thread already!
Its one hell of a job for a diy'er though!
Its one hell of a job for a diy'er though!
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PJPro
On Trade Tiler the TX-700 is actually more than the TX-700-N. Should I still go for the standard?imo the "N" isn't worth the extra, it just has a longer guide rail that can get in the way
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doug boardley
If you have room to set it up, I don't see why not. I think (but I'll have to check) that TT may have the old version "N" model and the new version standard model
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