Quote:I anticipate a very large breakage rate with lots of corners breaking off.
why??
i bought a decent pro tile cutter with replacable blades, and just used that to score my kitchen tiles which i laid on the diagonal, and i think i only lost a couple, which ended up being used as cuts else where....
as for laying them out, i was taught by some nutty Italian guy, who used to "png a chalk line central first, then work from this, and would do alot of the floor DRY and then make the majority of the cuts, then work through what he had!! so basically you got what ever cuts there was going to be , he always preached about "All-aways , buta all-aways keepa to a da line a centralla!" (naff accent i know!!)
no doubt JasonB will be able to offer up more advise than i , or even Sailfish Honey, if shes a listening in...
but get a decent tile cutter!