/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2788525
>>2788536
I did one tile repair job and tried to snap em myself before I got a wet tile saw. Was <$100 for this Skil 7” with a blade. I 100% recommend it, especially if you’re tiling multiple rooms. You will spend more money on wasted tiles that didn’t snap straight.

>>2771771
Muh <$300 Ryobi 10” slider works gud enough for me. My point was that the angled cuts always suck ass with a regular skil saw. Straight cuts too. Especially if I tried my last project with a ton of 1x2 cuts on cheaper rough boards from HD. The first time I ever used the miter saw was to build the workbench in this garage, and it has to go around a notch in the wall where the fuse panel is, and I was so fuckin amazed when all of the inside and outside 45deg cuts and measurements actually lined up during assembly.

>>2771787
Maybe if you only plan to do one bathroom reno for 20 years and don’t have any tile floors it would be worth renting. But as mentioned with the cheap Chinese specialty tools, you can get the Skil 7” wet tile saw for <$100 all day on Amazon, and I may know from experience that a 7-1/4” wood blade fits on there no problem for slower cuts on small thin boards if you really want to. That bitch went through landscape pavers too, although I had to cut the front and back to make it work with a 7” blade.

>>2701896
>tile break
Look at the reviews, there’s a reason they’re all shitty and the saws and diamond blades are like 4.5+

I tried to redo a section of tile with the handheld tile break, was doing basic 6” square white tiles, I bought a 7” wet tile saw immediately after that job because trying to get a clean break on any piece of tile anywhere past 60/40 (like a 1” x 6” piece off a 6x6 tile) is around a 10% success rate when using the score and snap method.

>>2616756
I’m with ya halfway, but here’s the protip: drop the fucking $90 on a cheap 7” wet tile saw and it will make life easier. I’ll break more than $90 worth of tile with the goddamn snap cutter if I don’t have the table saw.