A tile setter chided me for placing snap tile cutters in a critical light. I re-read the article, and he was right--so I've revised it!
Snap tile cutters definitely have their place in tile work. Think of a snap tile cutter as a giant glass cutter. Draw the wheel across the tile surface, snap, voila. Now you've got two pieces of tile.
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The only thing is that, like anything that is torn, snapped, or ripped, the resulting two pieces don't have a perfect clean line. But that's the nature of snap tile cutters, not your fault. Slip the ragged edge against the wall. The baseboard will cover it.
When you're tiling a floor, almost every cut end will go under a baseboard or threshold.
It's possible to get by with just a snap tile cutter, but it's sure nice to have both a snap cutter and a wet tile saw.
Image: NATTCO
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