Cutting glass tiles

Lemoncurd

Our tiler wasn't too impressed when we mentioned that we'd ordered a glass border for our bathroom - he said he's never worked out how to cut them properly and they are a nightmare to work with. Anyone have any ideas on the right tools to use and where to get them from so we don't waste many tiles?
The tiles are about 4cm square and quite thick, fairly opaque glass and should only need to be cut for the corners of the room and by the door.
I used to work with stained glass and we'd score the glass and then break it (with pliers for smaller pieces) but that was thinner so probably easier to work with, don't you do somehing similar with ceramic tiles anyway?

trafalgar_2

If you find the job too tricky ,mark them up and take them to your local glazier,we did this with ours as he had the right tools /expertise to do the job.


just look in your phone book:)

Loobeylou

We purchased some glass tiles to do the small downstairs cloakroom (thank goodness it is not a large room). Mr Loobeylou found them a nightmare to cut, even though we did get prior advice from the manufacturer.

The problem seems to be that the tiles have a kind of backing which easily gets fractured in the cutting, thereby making the front look bad.

plumb1_2

Use a Diamond cutting blade

Loobeylou

We did use a diamond cutting blade, and we still had problems!

plumb1_2

Loobeylou wrote:

We did use a diamond cutting blade, and we still had problems!

did you use a wet one?

Loobeylou

plumb1 wrote:

did you use a wet one?

Excuse me?

If you are referring to the diamond cutting tool, even the manufacturers did not suggest using this wet, so no, we did not.