This material will be useful for those who are going to do the tiling in the apartment on their own. No matter how you calculate and calculate your work, you can not avoid cutting ceramic tiles. For these purposes, there are several special devices, depending on the complexity of the work and its volume. As a rule, such tools are freely available, and sometimes they are found in rent. And so that the work was fun, we will first get acquainted with the basic rules how to cut ceramic tiles.
How to cut a ceramic tile with a cutter?
If you want to work with large tiles and cut in a straight line, a special cutter will do. Such a knife is usually in every builder, and to rent it will not become a difficulty. But this option is suitable only for direct cutting lines and a small number of tiles.
- You should always start working with checking your snap. There are a lot of design options for such a cutter, but the principle of their work is approximately the same: you put the tile on the work surface and then gently and surely make a notch with a knife. To check the working state of the rigging, we take one tile, preferably broken or crushed.
- Before cutting ceramic tiles, be sure to draw a pencil from the back side of the cutting line.
- Then place the workpiece face up. We expose it and check the correctness of the location relative to the intended line. We control the lines or marks on the edges of the tile.
- Note that the tile cutter usually has a special scale, which can also be used safely for control.
- Now consider the process itself, how to cut the ceramic tile: move the carriage with the blade on the bottom edge, which is located closer to you. Install the blade near the edge of the tile and apply the force down. We move this way along the line.
- Always check the reliability of fixing the workpiece: if the tile is not tightly clamped and walks, the edge will be uneven, and there is a likelihood of a split.
- Always hold the blade to the very end and smoothly, so that the cut is as flat as possible. If you are planning to use a similar device for the first time, buy a few more tiles, because even from a quality cut from the first time just will not succeed.
- This tool allows you to make cuts and diagonally. For these purposes, install the tile in the appropriate way. It is important to align the position, so that the ends are located symmetrically.
- In the rest nothing fundamentally new happens: you press on the cutter and conduct to the very end with a blade.
Cutting ceramic tiles into small pieces
For people creative even tiles on the wall becomes a work of art. Many people prefer to use the mosaic technique instead of the usual method. It involves pre-cutting the tiles into small squares or other small pieces. How to do this, we will consider below.
- Preliminarily it is necessary to cut ceramic tiles with strips, since small pieces from the whole will be problematic to break. And neat edge too it does not turn out.
- For these purposes, it is possible to use the already familiar to us tile cutter. The width of the bands will depend on the size of the final pieces. The smaller the final fragments, the narrower the strip will be.
- And now we will cut out small fragments from these strips by hand forceps.
- As a result, here are such small fragments for mosaic . Then they spread on the previously applied drawing.
