How To Cut Porcelain Tile-using a tile cutter

okay so what we have here is we have a wheel on this tile cutter and this is a snap and score tile cutter so we're going to score and then we'll snap it down and what what the key is to this is this wheel right here I usually go with a bigger wheel most of the time that cuts most of the tile some of the ceramics you want to use a little smaller wheel wheel that has a sharper edge you can go online and kind of check this out and see what different style wheels there are and what they're used for they'll be a description you can kind of go to the different tile manufacturers that just go to a tile contracting website where they sell tile supplies and go through the tile cutter section and you can look these wheels up but anyway so with this I just line my mark up on each side and if just in case it's crooked I come back to make sure my wheel lines up with the other mark if I need to adjust it a little then I just move it and then I just do a quick score and I don't press down super hard with the scoring part and then I just do a quick snap and it snaps right off these cuts are next to the tub and I told you that the tub kind of curves a little bit and most tubs do so that's what this one did but a lot of times you be able to use this part of it as a set being square so when you stick that tile in there you can get yourself a straight cloud now this is the vent now this is the part of the vent that notches out here's the wall now I'm going to bring this outside and cut it with the grinder but I'm going to cut this first so I don't have as much grinding to do now you can see is all I have left is this knotch and I'll do the same thing with this piece right here here's my vent and this is the mark where that comes down the wall that's the only part of the wall it comes on the rest of this just is blank it's where the vent goes so I'm just going to line it up with that mark right there and just cut straight through I see what's left and like I said these lines will just come right off so nothing to worry about if you have a non-porous tile make sure you double-check down on a scrap piece though you might need to use a pencil but most of time a permanent marker works really well for marking tile

Channel: So That's How You Do That!

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Keywords: how to cut porcelain tile, how to lay ceramic tile, laying ceramic tile

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Length: 3min 16sec (196 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 22 2013