Cutting giant tiles with a professional tile cutters

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.

New Tiling tools blog in french language

Hi guys, I found this new blog dedicated to professional tiling tools. This tiling tools blog is entirely written in French language for France and other countries that use french language.
This is the main link: Coupe Carrelage Blog
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The time for chines tile cutter is finishing

Hi guys, some years ago I remember that everybody used cheaper and bad quality tile cutters produced in China.
At that time it was easy and it was possible to do that because the tiles were very soft and very small so, also a simple and not professional tile cutter was able to cut that tiles.
Now the situation is exactly the opposite. Tiles are becoming hard, long and with difficult surfaces and it is not possible at all to cut them with simple tile cutter made in China.

I’ll give you an example just to understand what is the problem.
I’m now working inside a Hospital, a new area dedicated for the research. The architect decided to use a new crazy tile! 3 meter for 1,5 meter per 4 mm thickness.
I tried to cut it with a standard cutter but it was not possible because with 4 mm tiles it is not possible to use the same system used for cutting the 3 m x 1 m x 3 mm Kerlite tiles because these tiles are very very hard.

The only solution that I found was to cut it manually with an angle grinder and a small diamond blade for gres porcelain and hard ceramic. The result isn’t so beautiful but it was and in USA it is the only available solution now.
By the way, I’ll inform you as soon as I’ll find another solution by myself or on the market.
Have a nice day

The cheapest tile cutter for cutting big tiles!

What is in this moment the cheapest professional tile cutter for cutting very large tiles with dimension 100, 120, 150 cm?
Surfing in internet I found some tile big cutters produced by Rubi, Montolit and Sigma. Analyzing the machines and asking to my friends (tilers around the world), I discovered that in this moment, in their mind, the best tile cutter for cutting large tiles is Montolit tile cutter ,
followed by Rubi tile cutter and after by Sigma tile cutters. As you know Sigma normally produce pull tile cutters but in this case, for cutting big sizes, also Sigma decided use the best push system for cutting tiles. As you know it is not good to cut tiles pulling due to the body problemt that it creates.

Also the Rubi long tile cutter is not so bad but a little expensive compared with the performance. No other professional and long tile cutters are available on the market.

Which is the best tile cutters for very long tiles?

Hi tilers, I need your help now! Next month I'll start to work with very long gres porcelain tiles (italian producers, Graniti Fiandre) - these tiles are 1 m x 1,5 m x 14 mm thickness. I urgently need some special tile cutter able to easily cut this type of large tiles. I'm sure that some of you already worked with these tiles. So, could you please suggest me which is the best tile cutter for cutting these tiles? Searching on the web, I already found some information. Sigma and Montolit have these tile cutters, Raimondi doesn't have them at all, Rubi has something but not very strong because now Rubi produces most of its tools in China and with this economical situation I'm starting to prefer not to buy chinese made products! Could someone write me about your experience? Thanks a lot!