Well I'm finally tiling my bathroom floor (why would anybody fucking carpet a bathroom?). The wife is going to be SO happy.

Anyway, I got half of it done last weekend (the easy part). Now I've got to the tough part where I've got a few cuts. Both straight and notches.

I'd rather not buy or rent a wet saw. So I have two questions.


1. Do those tile cutters that score and snap the tile work well? I would of course use this for the straight cuts.

2. A friend of mine told me that a friend of his layed some tile for him and used a blade for his skil-saw to cut the tile. I was told that a masonry blade wouldnt' work when I went to the hardware store (I know most of the times they don't know what they're talking about, but anyway). If a masonry blade won't work, what will?

Again, thanks in advance.  

The scorer/tile snapper works great.  If you value your shooting hand, stay away from the circular saw/carbide blade set-up.

I had the same problem in my bath, CARPET! So I tiled the floor. Bought one of those cheap cutters from Lowes, about $20 bucks. Works great! Also a pair of snippers for doing curves.

First off - for cutting any tile the best tool is a wet saw with a diamond blade.  If you do not want to rent a wet saw, you can make very nice straight cuts with a ceramic tile cutter.  Without one you will break many more tiles.

For compound cuts without a wet saw you can use an angle grinder with a diamond blade or you can do like I did and pick up one of those hacksaw blades that cuts any material.  It takes longer and isn't as perfectly straight as machine cuts - but it will save you the price of renting the right equipment.  Hope this helps.
I am not a tile guy - but I play one on TV [:D]

I've done some tile laying recently and I used my dremmel tool with a $10 attachement to cut the bathroom tile. It was worth every bit of $10. (don't buy it at wally mart, you might get searched and killed by a mall ninja in training.)
But don't take my advice because anyone who has spent as much on guns as I have must be crazy. Now if I could just afford ammo...

That makes since to me, even if it doesn't break perfectly straight the tile edges will go under the base boards anyway.

Ben