How to properly cut tile, tile cutting
When tiling the walls and floor of the kitchen, bathroom or toilet , it is necessary not only to cut the tile into pieces, but also to make round cutouts for pipes in them, as well as angular and other shaped cuts necessary when fitting tiles to the surfaces to be covered. The simplest are straight cuts (photos 1-7), the more complex are angular and side semicircular (photos 8-13), and the most difficult are cutouts inside tiles (photos 14-19).
1. For cutting tiles in a straight line, a cutting machine is used. |
2. Put a hard alloy wheel in the cutting place on the edge of the tile and pull the cutter handle without interruption to the end tiles, keeping uniform pressure. |
3. The machine is equipped with a kind of «anvil» to break the tile according to the cut strip. Therefore, as soon as the wheel goes behind the tile, it is enough to press the handle to break the tile. |
4. The traditional cutting technique is to install the tile on the cut on a pencil and, holding on with both hands, break it. |
5. After the cut the edges are ground with an abrasive mesh. |
6. To break off a thin strip, use pliers. |
7. Cutting by diagonals are carried out by the machine in the same way as in a straight line. |
8. The electric jigsaw, equipped with a saw for cutting tile cladding, allows you to cut ordinary earthenware or terracotta tiles. |
9. Cutting by the arc of solid, especially floor tiles is easier to produce with an angle grinder equipped with a disc on concrete. |
10. The cut is finished by processing the edge of the tiles with a grinding wheel using an angle grinder. |
11. Small corner the cutout in the tile is made according to the risk drawn with a carbide cutter. |
12. The inner part of the removed tile sector is divided by a cutter into small squares. |
13. Break off small pieces of tile with pliers with curved sponges. |
14. To make a round hole for the passage of the pipe, the tile is laid flat on a wooden or chipboard stand and a carbide drill bit is slowly and forcefully drilled a small hole on the drawn contour of the hole. |
15. If they do not use effective, but more expensive special core drills for tiles, then drill a series of holes along the circumference of the pipe. |
16. In one of the holes, a jigsaw blade called a «rope» is inserted — a steel cable coated with tungsten carbide. |
17. The canvas is inserted into the jigsaw. |
18. A jigsaw is used to cut through the lintels between the holes. |
19. The edges of the resulting round hole are treated with a belt sander with a remote blade. |
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