Facing surfaces with tiles implies mandatory cutting tiles. When decorating walls of cutting, most often required in corners where whole products do not fit.
This article discusses the three most popular ways of cutting the material: manual tile cutter, grinder and roller glass cutter.
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How to cut tiles?
Manual tile cutter
This tool is specially designed for tile cutting. The device is a design consisting of the base, two metal guides, handles, cutting element and clamping paws.
In order to cut the tile with a tile cutter, it will take very little time. At first, a pencil mark is made on the tile indicating the future cut line.
Then the product is placed on the bed and aligned. Pencil label should coincide with a special notch on the tool case.
Then the handle of the tile cutter is pulled back and is brought to the working position. The cutting wheel is installed directly on top of the line made on the surface of the tile.
Light effort on the lever the front side of the tile is cut out. After that, clamping paws are installed on the tile, which break the whole product into two parts.
So that the tile is guaranteed to burst in the right place, with one hand should be pressed on the handle, and with the other palm to press the product to the base.
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Another option for cutting tiles is to use an angle grinding machine. This is an electric tool equipped with a rapidly rotating metal disk. For cutting tiles, a special circle of stone is used.
The advantage of the grinder above the tile cutter is that it can be made not only straight sections.
Grinding is able to give the tile practical any shape. This is useful when enveloping various obstacles: water and sewer pipes and so on.
Minus of using a grinder – a large amount of dust lifted into the air. It is advisable to manipulate the open air tool outside the apartment.
If this is not possible, it is necessary to ensure the full ventilation of the room. Along the way, you will have to think about protecting furniture and things from dust penetration.
For tile work, a compact angle grinding machine is best suited. The dimensions of the tool should be modest so that it is freely placed in one hand. It is inconvenient to cut the tiles with large, heavy and too powerful grinders.
Cut the tile with roller glass cutter
Roller glass cutter
With a small front of the work, the listed devices are replaced by roller glass cutter.
The tool is designed for cutting glass, but is quite capable of cutting the tile. He copes especially well with thin wall tiles.
In order to divide the product into two parts, you need to apply a pencil line to the front side. Then it is smoothly and hard enough to draw a glass cutter along it – the video will partially wrap the tile.
The next step is final. The tile is brought to any protruding corner in the apartment, put strictly along the cut and breaks down with a slight blow. Subject to this sequence, the product bursts into two halves.
The lack of roller glass cutter is that it is able to divide the tile into two approximately equal halves. Too narrow strips in this way cannot be separated. The tool makes a notch, but it is not possible to break the tile on the protruding angle.
In this case, nippers or ordinary pliers (pliers) help. They clamp the unnecessary part of the tile and break off in full or in parts. True, with this approach, it is not always possible to achieve a perfectly even cut line.
When choosing a tile cutting tool, focus on your needs. For cladding straight walls (kitchen apron, floor) enough manual tile cutter.
The bathroom will not be superfluous at all. Roller glass cutter can be used for spot repair. For example, when replacing several old tiles with new.
