How to cut small tile without a WET SAW

today's video I'm gonna show you how to cut mosaic tile coming up next [Music] hi everybody I'm Leo CJ trill and if this is your first time here can I just say welcome to you we're a home improvement channel where beginners are welcome as well now at the top of the video I talked about these here mosaic tile and they're really tiny and can be a little challenging to cut but they don't have to be I'm going to show you how easy the process is by way of a manual tile cutter so why don't we get started soon this is our tile cutter here and it's a very simplistic design we have a handle that rides on a rail and this rail here allows us to make a very smooth cut by way of tiny little wheel here that's our cutting will and that cutting will allows us to score our tile by scoring across the top of the tile like so then when we need to snap each piece this piece of the manual tile cutter applies pressure to the top of the tile allows us to bear down on the handle here now what I will tell you is this it doesn't matter if your mosaic tile is a fancy mosaic tile such as this tile here or it's a plain tile you can use a manual tile cutter to cut either it'll do the job just fine you don't need a wet saw to make these cuts now I've got my tile on my tile cutter what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna score our second row right down the middle now you would think that you could start the tile cutter up at the top and then pull down but that's not what you do you start at the bottom I'm gonna get my cutting wheel right on the edge apply slight pressure with the handle and we're gonna push forward [Music] that's the sound you want to hear that scoring sound is what you want to hear if you hear that you know that you're pressing down on the handle hard enough take your time you don't have to rush that's it now that we've got our tile score now it's time to snap each individual tile but if you notice the legs of this handle here they're longer than the width of the tile Matt won't service so what we'll do is we'll place a little piece of wood underneath put our handle right there in position and then we'll bear down that way the weight is really distributed evenly across the tile that we're trying to snap and now we just press down on the handle now there's our tile that's been snapped okay now we're just going to move down to our next tile and we're going to repeat the process if we're just gonna follow on down there's a third one as you can see it's snapping the tile nice and clean there's our last tile just snap okay now that the tile are snap all the way across we're going to pull this down like so so I can show you a little bit and as you can see it's a nice clean cut now we just flip the top over and we're going to to make these little small cuts you don't have to have a wet saw a manual tile cutter is really all you need this is Lea saying you can do this see you next time

Channel: seejanedrill

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Id: oSAUqqGXpYQ

Length: 4min 23sec (263 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 04 2020