Vitrex 102390 900 mm Pro Flat Bed Manual Tile Cutter

Bought this as it was cheap. Needed to tile my utility room and the cutter i had was too small, needed a 600mm one, seen this for £30 and I am SO glad I got it.Im only a DIYer, (and actually 5 months pregnant) cuts are effortless I wish I had this when I did my first tile project, wow, what a difference. worked amazing and trumps the other cheap one i have. 5x easier to use and cut!!For little jobs, its brilliant. Im no expert but compared to the other one “magnusson” I got last time.. that old one is probably gonna go in the bin. This one is ace glides a dream and I had 1 breakage in the whole room which was my fault for not supporting the tile properly

Never really leave feedback for items that I’ve purchased but felt compelled to write something for this.I’m a general builder encompassing pretty much all trades and have done a fair bit of tiling before, but never large format tiles.So when the need arose for a large format tile cutter I did a bit of research and came across the Vitrex Pro Tile Cutter 900mm.There’s a lot of good feedback for this item, even from tradesmen that have used ‘Top End’ kit that costs a lot more money.I’ve used a number of tile cutters before 300mm, 600mm and even the same brand as this before, but was amazed how much easier and less effort is required in both scoring and and snapping the tile.Maybe it’s missing a few of the extras or add ons that you might get with the more expensive models but It’s great value for money and does the job well.

Great for cutting big tiles. Looks to be very solid and well made. My only gripe is the difficulty of seeing the exact position of the cutting wheel when lining-up a tile prior to cutting. The sliding mechanism that carries the wheel is big and bulky. The manufacturer claims that it's easy to see the wheel...... Not true, in my opinion. I found myself having to peer end-on down the line of the cut in order to see if the wheel was exactly over my cut line. It is possible to see the wheel from the side, but that's not good enough for accurate cuts - you need to view the wheel end-on at both ends of the proposed cut, and this is not particularly easy to do.

This tile cutter is not fit for purpose. I bought it to cut 600mm x 600mm, 9.5mm thick glazed porcelain tiles. Unfortunately, it was totally incapable of cutting the tiles from the outset. The unit I received already had visible signs of use as if it had already been returned! But I thought I'd give it a go. Initially the tile scoring blade worked well and produced a good scored line, however, when I then used the lever to hit down on the tile it was totally incapable of breaking the tile (as other have noted in several reviews) the chrome rails simply bent upward as they are not strong / rigid enough.In the end I used my trusty Diamond Wheel Wet Tile Cutter and simply bought some nice metal trims.It may be capable of cutting smaller, weaker, ceramic and terracotta tiles. But if you have high quality porcelain or real stone tiles it's just not up to the job. I've also noted that they have updated the the description to say "For porcelain tiles, recommend using Vitrex Pro Tile Cutter 630mm" which is clearly more robust, and double the price!

I used this cutter for 78 Porcelain Tiles from Wicks. Tiles were 600mm x 400mm. Just to set expectations you are not going to cut a slim slither off of a 600mm tile with this type of device, if you need to or have planned to cut a shaving then the only way is to get a diamond wet tile cutter. What this tile cutter does really well is cut tiles that have a reasonable 50mm or more cut off from the tile. This is because you need a reasonable amount of tile each side of the cut, both to keep it strong enough and to have sufficient tile to press onto when breaking it. This cutter did at first produce slightly curved cuts until I realised that I needed to push the scoring handle straight without side force as it glides across the tile. Also, you must score from the edge to edge and not mis the start or stop early. Do not score more than once so get it right first time with enough pressure to ‘actually score it’, it should make a hard scratching sound as you do, but don’t press so hard it’s difficult to move forward across the tile. Always score by pushing the cutter away from you and not pulling towards you. I used the heal of my hand to minimise the side force for straight scoring and managed to get it within a millimetre of my Sharpie marked line. The breaking of a 600mm tile takes a fair amount of force and I found a hard bang down on the handle after making sure the tile was still centred over the ridge of the base. One thing that did happen once or twice was the cutting wheel struck the tile when snapping, chipping the corner a little, this was because I had the handle moved forward towards myself and it should be all the way away from yourself, so the Y shape presses down either side of the ridge in the base and the cutter wheel is out of the way (off of the edge of the top of the tile). I did not have any waste tiles making 18meters worth of linear cuts on floor tiles. I was surprised how much force was required to break the tile along the 600mm length. I also cleaned any tile debris from the bed for each cut (thanks Henry cleaner), so the next tile did not rest on any hard bits from the previous cut. To avoid too much rocking of the tile when scoring I used some corrugated cardboard to support the tile off the edge of the cutter bed as with big tiles this can be a little wobbly. I used a Vitrex electric tile cutter for cutting small amounts like 10mm off an edge, but these machines are slow, noisy and messy, so I maximised my use of the score and snap of the Vitrex 102371 600 mm Manual Flat Bed Tile Cutter. Looking forward to the next tile job in the bathroom now. Tile bits in bucket are from the wet cutter all tiles cut by the Vitrex 102371 600 mm Manual Flat Bed Tile Cutter were used on the floor as per pictures.