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Tile cutters will never be the same again – Introducing the Rubi Tools TZ Tile Cutter!
This is it friends, the review we have all been waiting for, the review of the most powerful tile cutter known to man.

It’s the biggest, it’s the baddest, it’s the strongest tile cutter ever made.

3300 lbs (1.5 Tonnes) of breaking power is now at your disposal. This porcelain tile cutter is the answer to even the thickest of pedestal tiles and porcelain floating deck tiles.

Ever seen a pedestal tile being cut? Well, now you have.

Carl Anders

Maximum Seperating Power:  1500 kg/3307 lbs  (500kg/1102 lbs more than other tile cutters.)

Able To Cut Tiles From: 3-21 mm/0.11-0.82″   – Imagine cutting a 20mm thick tile!

Comes In four Sizes:  85cm/102cm/130cm/155cm Or 33.46’’/40.15’’/51.8’’/61.02 (same separating power across all sizes)

Package Includes: Carry Bag + Two cutting knives incl. Rubi’s latest PLUS Extreme Cutting Blade

With the added benefit of being able to cut pedestal tile, you can expand your service list to lay those as well since this tile cutter will make laying them so easy. It’s highly likely other tile setters in your area won’t have this cutter so you get that competitive edge.

The downside of all this power is that the Rubi TZ requires more care than regular tile cutters. Don’t go kicking it around or leaving it smeared with thinset. Take the time to align the head and clean the cutting rails to keep it performing at it’s best.

Yeah, I know it costs a tonne of beer money but I can truthfully say that out of the 40+ tile cutters I have purchased over the years, this one is something else, a cut above (excuse the pun). It’s well worth the money and I don’t regret spending the extra to buy it.

If you want the best tile cutter in terms of breaking strength and one that can cut absolutely anything your clients can throw at you, then this tile cutter is for you. Choose which size suits you best, and go for it.

This tile cutter can cut: 

• Standard Large Format Tile
• PorcelainWooden Plank Tile
• Pedestal Tile (Floating Deck Tile) 

 This tile cutter will also help you break into the pedestal tiling market or speed up your workflow if you are already working with pedestal tile and using a tile saw for each cut. With the Rubi TZ, you’ll only need to cut round or details on the tile saw, all time consuming cuts will be taken care of by the TZ tile cutter. 

If you find yourself working with standard 32 inch (600×600) tiles a lot and nothing too insane, then a regular Sigma, Montolit or Rubi tile cutter will be your choice, especially if money is a concern.

Rubi TZ 1550

Cutting Length: 155cm/61.02”

I’ve heard and seen the Rubi TZ all over the internet long before I got to see one with my very eyes. I saw the awesome videos of people cutting pedestal tiles at trade expos, saw the fancy new design with the spring loaded breaking handle and was so darn excited.

I couldn’t believe such power could be had in a tile cutter. Up to that point, most tile cutters had the same breaking strength of around 800kg-1 tonne (1700-2200 lbs). Suddenly this Spanish superhero could do 1.5 tonnes…what!

This video below is one of those videos I watched, watch from 2 minutes 20, (2:20) to see the part with the pedestal tile – that part really blew my mind. 

Needless to say I fell in love with it and as a long time Rubi fan, I knew it had to be mine one day.

More months passed and then suddenly I had an influx of enquiries to lay pedestal tile decks. I have done a few in the past and remembered how painful cutting those thick slabs of porcelain was. Each cut took 10 minutes on my tile saw and progress was slow. Of course no tile cutter could cut a 2cm thick tile (0.82), it’s a tile saw or nothing. 

Overall, the Rubi TZ is pure quality. Nothing about it feels cheap or half-assed. It’s quality materials and engineering, all fitting together in a beautiful looking design.

I like the Montolit tile cutters for their use of attractive color and design, but I think this Rubi beats it.

Sleek red and silver mixed with black accents makes this tile cutter look very professional, for a tool fanatic, it’s a treat to the eyes. 

Gotta say, them wheels do a great job of moving this thing around. 

It’s big and it’s heavy. I’d guess about 44 pounds (20 kg). Nonetheless the bulk is easy to manoeuvre around the work site or clients home and unpacking the tile cutter is as easy as opening up the plastic case of old.

The tile cutter itself is very compact when it’s folded up. Everything stores into itself and only the long measuring bar needs to be affixed. That lives in it’s own compartment in the soft case, handy.

So anyway, I’m at home, feeling like a child at Christmas opening my first present. Set it up on the driveway and Jane my wife looks on with a bemused grin.

Everything is more or less self explanatory, a pull there, a slot and turn there, and the tile cutter is assembled. Bam.

I slot a spare 32 inch tile into the cutter and go for the first score and I’m immediately blown away at how easy the scoring is.

It’s literally butter smooth with little to no effort needed from me. I simply push it along and an even score is made on the tile. What on earth!?

Turns out the handle is mounted on a dolly of sorts, instead of the head gliding along tubes or a central bar, it has four metal wheels instead. Without any lubrication or anything, the scoring action is smoother than the silk you’ll find in your partners underwear drawer. Ooh la la

So once I get over the arousing fact that the tile cutter scores like nothing I’ve ever experience before, I go to break the tile.

Pop, the tiles break cleanly and easily without issue. I immediately score again and this time break it quickly.

No issues.

Feeling cocky, I score a very thin sliver and try. With some pressure in the back and then the front, the sliver snaps off cleanly.

Awesome!

With myself antiquated with the tile cutter, I stand back and allow Jane to take some photos of the Rubi TZ while it’s still fresh and new. It’s these photos that you are looking at.

Rubi have done something amazing with this new range of tile cutters and have truly outshone the competition in terms of engineering and resulting breaking strength.

Everything about this tile cutter has been built around it’s immense ability to snap thick porcelain slabs.
The very reason it’s so heavy is the thick metal bar at the center of the tile cutter that provides the strength and rigidity required to produce 1.5 tonnes of breaking power.

Cutting pedestal/floating deck tile is very similar to cutting a regular tile, honestly, it’s exactly the same.

The only real trick is being careful with the breaking.

I like to put some pressure on the tops and bottom of the tile and coaxing it to break gently. You can go for a full blown snap from the top but if you are cutting thinner pieces, you might break a triangular piece off the tile.

Just be gentle and within 15 seconds you’ll have a neatly cut pedestal tile. Not as smooth on the base as a tile saw cut, but still very usable.

So it’s official, you can cut pedestal tiles with a tile cutter. But only the Rubi TZ tile cutter range.

Sorry Sigma and Montolit. (I’m just waiting for someone to email me and argue that fact.)

Every hero has their flaws, usually a direct result of their amazing abilities. 

The Rubi TZ is an incredibly powerful tile cutter that is unmatched by anything else on the market. In order to allow it to be so strong, a lot of clever engineering has been put into place to allow such cuts to happen.

Some would say the Rubi TZ is over engineered, with the swinging lever in the cutting handle and the highly adjustable back drop head which you use to set your cutting angle.