How to cut hard floor tiles

Many construction stores offer a huge range of ceramic floor tiles, which options can meet any requirements.

However, in addition to the purchase of the floor tiles themselves, it will not be superfluous to take care of the purchase of the tool required for cutting. After all, as you know, almost no room can not arrange the tile so that not had to cut it at the same time. The company “Zapsibstroydormashservis” offers excavator Terex at a good price.

Floor tiles are known to have a high hardness, in connection with which the cutting technology is associated with some difficulties. Most often either waterjet or mechanical method is used for this. The latter is more common for cutting home tiles. Here, the most commonly used tile cutter, which looks similar to a glass cutter. It has several times the cutting wheel, allowing a greater depth of cut.

After cutting the tile, it must be broken with a metal tooth located on the tile cutter. If you need to cut several tiles of the same size, the limiter scale, also available on the tile cutter, can help you. It allows you to cut several tiles quickly and easily according to set measurements.

Another effective way to cut it is to use a stonecutter. When buying this tool, it is important to remember that the speed of the cutter depends on the quality of cutting floor tiles. Before you begin work, you need to draw a cutting line on the tile, starting from the far end. To make the cut extremely even, you should press evenly on the tool. The result should be a noticeable groove.

Of course, the above methods of cutting tiles are good only for straight cuts. If you need to make a shape cut, you can’t do without waterjet cutting. The process looks as follows:

Water with abrasive admixtures is pumped through the hole (0.1 mm) of the cutter under high pressure. The directed action of the jet causes the tile to be cut. In this case the structural integrity of the coating is not damaged.

The waterjet method allows you to achieve the most even cut with an accuracy of 0.1 mm.