How to cut
24 Inch Tile
How to Cut Porcelain and Ceramic Floor Tiles - Tile Mountain
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hi I'm Craig Phillips and welcome to my
tiling trade tips but I'm going to be
revealing my top DIY secrets to help you
save money and time on this episode I'm
going to be showing you how to cut large
format tiles
now it's essential to have the right
equipment to cut your tires the staff at
our mountain are happy to help you in an
advanced yet what's the right tag for
your type of tiles this particularly one
I'm about to cut is a 1200 millimeters
long by 600 millimeters wide and I'm
going to cut it the full length now the
unit I'm about to use is a 1250
millimeter straight railed tile cutter
I've got it fixed down to a workbench
I've placed my tile in the center of it
I've got my mark where I'm about to cut
I have pushed it all the way up to the
front to make sure it's square on the
sections here I'm going to place the
blade onto the mark I'm about to cut
starting off by pressing it down gently
pull any back 10 millimeters and then
wake on my way all the way up to the top
it's right light you score that from the
very bottom right the way up there to
the top let's take a machine you lift
the arm up you press the handle down and
then the braking arms you place on top
of the tile it's straddling over your
score mark it's about 30 millimeters
setback from the top of the tile and
then just going to put a short sharp
Press motion down to break the tile now
it doesn't matter what size tile it is
the cut methods are all the same the
smaller the tile the smaller the unit
now this tile quarter is a movable
breaker which it allows me to score
individual mosaic tiles and embrace them
separately
now after you've scored each tile twist
the handle raise the blade up then you
can pull the arm back press down the
cutting arm onto each individual tab and
press to break as you can see the glass
section is cut on the mosaics now I can
take my trimming knife and cut the mesh
in the back now you may not only have
straight cuts you might come across some
tricky cuts like cutting a corn out of a
tile like this great way of doing it is
using a wet closet now it's called a wet
cutter you apply some water in the
reservoir that keeps the blade cool and
it reduces the dust
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