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Cutting tiles

Ceramic tiles are found in many places such as cottage, apartment, office. Also, such building materials have established themselves well in the construction of car sinks.

In production, this coating is often used. There are many rooms in which humidity is increased, and such material as tiles should be used in them. But many people know what styling is. This process requires special attention and certain knowledge. You also need to have a certain experience using the tool: level, trowel, spatula.

Especially you should observe all the necessary measures in order to protect yourself when cutting the material. In order to cut the tile, a tool called tile cutter is used.

There are two main types of such tools. Manual tile cutters are used if there is not much work. Electrical – on the contrary, when there is a very large volume. Such tools are used by masters of their craft, professionals who have the practice and certain knowledge of theory. In this case, there will be no difficulties in performing appropriate actions.

Pretty complex actions are those that are made at the time of purchase of the tool. It needs to be correctly selected. To do this, you need to know the information a little about him. It is also necessary to decide what volume of tiles will have to be laid. If it is 3-4 squares, then you should not buy a professional tool for an industrial scale for this. For small volumes there are manual tiles – these are mechanical forceps that have corners and a video. They try to make a roller incision, which is a line on the front side of the tile materials. After that, the press is made in the right place, and the tile breaks along the same line.

Manual tiles are inexpensive, when compared with electric. They can make a good job with a small volume.

There are good options for manual tile cutters that are attached to the table. They are a little more expensive, but in turn, quite well recommended themselves for a long time among masters and builders during the implementation of serious volumes of work. But here there are restrictions. Tile products that are cut, should not be thicker than 15 mm. The desktop type of instruments has special lines, individual. With their help, you can easily see where to turn, in one direction or another a cutting element. You can cut tiles at different angles.

Electric type of tile cutters will be performed by any cut. It has many devices that are designed for cutting tiles of any size. The question can consist only in the thickness of the materials.

There are machines for cutting tiles – these are tables that have a sliding design. The cutting element is given using electric motors of the corresponding power.

Cutting elements are often located on top. In this case, there will be a cutter more accurate and clear. There are machines of machines that have a cutting drive at the bottom.

Tiles should be cut using diamond discs. This is a consumable. In this case, water cooling of tiles and disk is done. Cutting discs are selected in accordance with tile sizes.