TILE SAW TUTORIAL FOR BEGINNERS - 3 CUTS YOU NEED TO KNOW

[Music] hello welcome to tile coach i'm isaac ostrom i'm a licensed tile and general b contractor in northern california thank you for watching another one of our videos so today i'm going to be showing you how to use a tile saw and also the three most used cuts that we do as tile installers so i'm going to be showing you how to do a straight cut i'm going to be showing you how to do an l cut and i'm also going to be showing you how to do a u-cut now i'm going to show you these three different cuts on two different types of saw just in case you have one that has chop action and then i'm going to show you how to do it if your saw does not have chop action so we're going to start with the dewalt it's probably the most popular tile saw on the market today and what i mean by chop action is that it has a head that can go up and down and actually chop down on top of the tile where the older saws do not do that so i'm going to show you first on the on the dewalt so a straight rip is pretty easy it's a pretty you know usually you just go in it's when you're going along a wall and the whole tile needs to be ripped down you're just going to take that measurement you're going to make a mark say 3 inches you're going to make that mark and then you're going to come over to the tile saw so as you can see with the dewalt i'm going to adjust the head all the way down so that it's in its locked position it's down it's fixed i can't move the head of the saw and i got my mark lining up my mark pretty simple here so with the straight so with the straight rip you're just going to line up your pencil mark look down on the blade it's a lot easier to see if you look down in line with the actual blade you're going to turn on the saw and you're just going to push right through [Music] so so one thing i want you to pay attention to is that i'm not forcing the tile saw into the blade i'm letting the saw blade kind of dictate how much pressure i'm going to put onto it because i'll show you what happens if i start putting too much pressure it's just too much for the blade so go nice and easy [Music] so that nice even sound that you heard when i gave it nice easy pressure that's what you want if you hear the saw kind of binding up making different sounds that means you're pushing too hard you don't want to do that so you can see we got a nice even cut piece cut really well and so that's a straight rip so leave a really nice finish if it's going to be an exposed edge you want to have a rub stone or some other type of way to sand the edge and once you do that it gives a really nice clean edge again this is a an edge that can be finished an exposed cut it looks just like the factory edge on the tile so that's the way to get a really nice even clean cut so the next cut we're going to do is an l cut now an l cut can be used for cutting around a wall when two walls come together it can be used for cutting around an object but uh l cuts a real common cut that we make uh when especially when doing floors but uh here i have another type of porcelain tile 12 inch by 24. i'm just gonna make a couple marks generic marks maybe i go six inches here and another six inches here and i will use a speed square speed square is a really nice tool to have when you're marking tile it helps you get a nice square drawn so i got an l shape cut here and so we'll go ahead and i'll show you how to do that on the dewalt now i could do this cut on either saw but since we're using the dewalt now i'm going to go ahead and do this same thing that we did with the rip cut you know we're going to line it up with our pencil mark we're going to look right down the pipe to make sure everything's lined up and you'll see as i cut when i get to the the edge here i'm actually going to be lifting up now what lifting up on the tile does right here is it allows the curvature of the blade to cut all the way through to the the back of the tile because since the tile since the blade is round if i were to just stop it at this point the cut is going to be angled like this and it won't be cut through the same depth all the way through the tile so you're going to see me lift up [Music] see so you see by lifting up see i went right to my pencil line there and as i lift it up that helped transfer the cut all the way through instead of leaving more meat of the tile in the back so i'm going to do that same thing as i make the other side of the l line it up i always close one eye it's easier for me i close one eye like i'm shooting a rifle or something really helps me get the line lined up [Music] so and you'll you'll also notice that as i got close to the point of the l i started going really slow because you don't want to go out past it you can stay short of it but you don't want to go past or you're going to ruin your cut so you can see now after i made this l i still have a little bit to clean up in here because again the curvature of the blade doesn't allow to go all the way through even when you lift up the tile so i need to clean this up so you can do this one of two ways you can flip the tile upside down and that's going to allow the that's going to allow it to go deeper so i'm going to flip this upside down and i'm just going to go a little bit past or the other thing you can do is hold the tile and this is where the chop action comes in nicely too i can lift the blade up and i'm probably going to get kind of wet doing this because it's going to want to spray but this is going to allow me to get the blade the tile in against the blade like this so you can see i went went from the back side and went a little bit past and and this one i'm just going to go right in the corner and this is the way i would usually do it i would just get in here and kind of manipulate things with my hands [Music] [Music] now you see we got a really nice nice l cut cut all the way through so one thing that's helpful to do if you do have a heavy tile and you're trying to do fine tuning like this if there's any way that you can rest an arm that would make it a lot easier to have stability and control over your cut as opposed to trying to hold it like this because these tiles are actually pretty heavy so there's a nice beautiful perfect l cut right there that again if if this wasn't exposed if you had baseboard going on it it it wouldn't be a big deal but if say if this was like in a shower niche where it's exposed you got to get these cuts perfect and that's the way to do it with an l cut okay so the last cut i'm going to do is a u-shaped cut we got our straight rip we got our l-cut now i'm going to do a u-shaped cut so i'm just doing random measurements i'm going to do 16 inches and i'm going to do we'll do 11 inches now i'll do yeah i'll do 11 inches that's kind of the standard width of a door jamb the same thing i'm going to use my speed square and then i'll come up with an arbitrary measurement here maybe another five inches that's why the speed square makes makes uh well maybe that's why it's called a speed square right sometimes the speed square doesn't reach all the way so i'll just start it and then i'll use the edge just as a straight edge line it up there we go so this is a u-cut so i'm going to show it first with the chop action of the dewalt so this does this is where where the dewalt outperforms the target this this chop action but i can i can do it both ways [Music] [Music] okay so i started on with the u-cut i made the two straight cuts with the u and you saw as i lift it up i'm bringing the blade all the way through the tile now i'm going to go ahead and loosen up the head on the chop action and so i could lay this either this way or i could lay it this way it doesn't really matter but i'm going to do it this way because this is my finished line and it's easier for me to see on this side so the nice thing about these dewalts is that i can put the tile completely under the blade and bring it down on top of the tile so i'm going to line it up just like i would to make a straight line and so now i'm going to start the motor leave this loose and come down on top of it now i got to be really careful here to not go past my finish line i got to stay within the two lines i've already cut so here we go [Music] so you can see here because of the curvature of the blade again it's not cutting all the way through that that u you can see on the back side that's what i got so this still needs to to come out and when i with these two cuts you saw as i lifted up on the tile it got almost all the way through it not quite but if you don't lift up on the tile that's what you're going to have left on the underside so we're but we're cut all the way through on the front so i could probably just hit this on something and it would pop off clean but for the sake of teaching i'm going to show you how you can cut through the back side and now i can run a little bit longer because the curvature of the blade won't go through the front it'll just be on the back okay here we go this isn't perfect i mean you can see i got just a little bit down here that's going to show i think you know if this was was grouded let me put the might be easier to see you know we're a little rough right there on that corner i probably could have done a better job there these inside corners let me see if i sand them down if that'll help but this is a this is a pretty tricky cut to make perfectly but again you might need to make it if you had a shower niche or something like that that's pretty dang good that would pass in my book some installers might make their helper do it over again but that's pretty dang good okay so that's one way to do the u-cut okay so i showed you how to do a u-cut on the dewalt with a chop action now we're gonna go with the old school target has no chop action at all it's a fixed fixed cutting head so i'll show you how i do it real similar but i'm not going to be able to chop down when i make this cut [Music] so [Music] yeah actually this blade is really dull and it actually it's it's warped too you could probably hear the vibrations in it i'm going to try sharpening it up a little bit but yeah i don't know again i haven't used this saw in years and i don't know what blade got put on here or what but yeah it's it's not cutting real well [Music] those bearings are bad too so yeah so i use the uh the rub stone to dress up the blade here so we'll see if it cuts a little bit better so now i got to get i got to get my tile underneath the blade before so i'm just trying to get the tray out of the way and now i'm going to lift up with the tile to get this cut here [Music] [Applause] [Music] so so real quick that's how you would make the u-cut if you didn't have the chop action of the dewalt as you saw the chop action is a great feature made it a lot easier and simpler especially if you're just learning but if you did get into a bind and the only saw you had was one that doesn't have a chop that's how you would go about making a u-cut so as a bonus feature and you know just just a little treat i'm going to try to make an actual hole in a ceramic tile and you know i'll be going over some advanced cutting this is a video for beginners i'm going to be developing a course so stay tuned for that make sure to subscribe have your notifications on because in the coming months i'm going to start doing courses for you guys to get better at installing tile but this is just a little advanced cut a little sneak peek that i'm going to show how to do this would be great if you had like you know you're installing in a shower you've got a shower head to cut around here's a little square in the middle of a tile so i just marked both sides of the tile and i'm going to start i'm going to start from the front [Music] so i'll be going over stuff like this more tips and tricks i'm here to help you guys get better at what you do maybe you're an apprentice who just wants to get better be able to impress your tile installer you're working for with cuts like this maybe you're a do-it-yourselfer who just wants to do their own project and do a good job maybe you're just getting into the trade and want to learn about more of this stuff so stay tuned for more stuff coming up my point of making these videos is to help you get better and once you get better it's going to have a ripple effect on not only you your workers your community your family and everything goes from there so i really appreciate you guys doing this this is stuff that was freely taught to me and so i want to just give it back to you guys so watch those next videos coming up make sure to subscribe turn your notifications on so you see our weekly video upload so thanks again for being here with me i love you guys i love being your tile coach and we'll see you on the next [Music] video

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Id: jQuUYczIG00

Length: 19min 22sec (1162 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 12 2020