Porcelain tile chipping when cut with brand new wet tile cut

[camel307]

Hi,

I purchased an Erbauer ERB337TCB 750W Tile Saw 230V from Screwfix for £90 to tile my dining room. It seems to be a good bit of kit but it has chipped all the porcelain tiles I have tried to cut. The chips are small but still apparent - please see pic.

I have cut ceramic tiles before using much less impressive equipment and have not had a single chip.

I am feeding the tiles nice and slowly through the disc, the disc is brand new (came with the cutter and this is my first use) and I have plenty of water in the reservoir.

Any ideas?

Is this normal? Please see pics

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• camel307
• 3 Mar 2014
• 1

 

[gregers]

try cutting them upside down and see what happens?

 

[ree]

My two cents would be:

Is the water definitely feeding through?

Its best to buy a top quality blade for porcelain - your price for machine and disc is probably indicating a cheap c/w disc.

Sometimes pieces might be seconds, especially stuff from the sheds.

 

[MrRight]

Get a decent blade AND try cutting them upside down :X