Hi, I visited one very important ceramic fair in Italy and I was surpriced to see that more than 5 ceramic tiles producers are now producing very big tiles.
I'm not talking about Kerlite from Cotto d'Este but tiles 1 x 3 meters x 4, 6, 8 till 10 mm!!! a real GIANT TILE.
I visited the stand of Laminam and Graniti Fiandre. It was unbelieveble, so large tiles. With only 5 tiles you could lay a bathroom.
Buy my question was...how to cut these 3 meters tiles?
I was very busy looking the ceramic tiles during the fair and I had not time to visit the tiling tools producers in order to check which solutions they are putting on
the market.
When I was back at home I checked Internet and I found this incredible tile cutter able to make the incision and to split these giant tiles:
It was the only professional and complete tile cutter for giant tiles that I found. Other systems was too simple and studied only for standard Kerlite.
For me it is fantastic! One 3 meters tile cutter. Unbelieveble!
The reality is that the tile layers work is quickly changing. Laying these tiles (that cost till $1000 each!!!) is not easy and the tiles need to pay a lot of attention.
It is important to use professional tools. As I wrote in my preview post, the time of bad quality tile cutters and in general low cost (and bad quality) tiling tools is finisching.
The tiles cannot take the risk to breack $500 tile because he is using a bad tile cutter :-)
By the way. Looking in internet I fond others tile cutters for very large tiles but all these tools are very similar to the original tile cutter (glass cutter) studied to cut Kerlite. The problem is that now these new tiles are very hard and with till 10mm thickness so it is not possible to use simply sistems for cutting them!
Who will take a risk to brek $500 tile?
Joung tilers will face a big challage in their future.
