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    way's to cut mosaic

    if you can find a few diffrent way's on you- tube for cutting mosaic please add them YouTube - Diamond Bandsaw - Cutting mosaic - Karl Dahm
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    how to cut metal mosaic tiles

    I have been tiling a kitchen in mosaic tiles that are ceramic backed with a metal capping over the top and some are glass sizes are 50mm and 25mm I tried several different ways to speed the cutting up to get a good finish and tried different blades so this is the best way i found how to do it...
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    How to cut out for toilet waste pipe..

    I was cutting out for toilet waste pipe today and had the camera with me and thought I would show how i do it so newbies and diyers can see an easy way to do it with out to many tools! The tile was a ceramic one! Tools used. tape measure/pencil/parrot nibblers/grindette/diamond blade/safety...
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    Wet saw to cut to 10mm cubes?

    I've never used any mechanical saws before, all my cutting has been with the hammer and hardie up to now. For the my Roman mosaic copies I buy pre cut marble tesserae (tiles), all with a uniform 10mm thickness but an irregular profile. The finished mosaic looks as if all the tesserae have been...
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    What shall I use to cut this tile?.

    Hi All, How can I cut this type of tile? Any advice gratefully received. Many Thanks, Paul
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    What shall I use to cut this tile?

    Hi All, How do I cut one of these, please? Any tips (diamond!?), gratefully received. Many thanks, Paul Broken Link Removed Broken Link Removed
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    wet or dry for best finish / cut

    hi all, newbie diy question, i am tiling our bathroom, all has gone ok, gone fine but when cutting tiles around the bathroom window have run into problems. the tiles are 600*300 glazed porcelain. i bought one of those electric tile wet cutting tables, when i cut the tiles it leaves a serated...
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    My quote cut in half

    Hi, went to do a measure and quote for 60x30 porcelain tiled in herringbone. Job was 25m2 kitchen into hallway, removal of tiles and tile downstairs wc totalling 45m2. I includes 10 bags of addy and grout and came out at £1200 on 20m2. How does this sound? I figured 5/6 days. Then someone went...
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    cut and shute

    went too price up a job to day the old bath is choped into the wall lath and plaster its a small bath room how do i over come this problem im stiping the the lot even the floor is going joists too (ground floor) strip out all the room then the floor new floor too go in then the walls going up...
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    Cut glass Mosaic

    I have purchased some glass mosaics from Topps (Glitter Brick B/G/S 130049), which I am using for a thin border around a bathroom (4 rows of glass oblongs) each sheet has around 20 rows on so I have no problem cutting them into 4 wide strips. However as each glass oblong is around 1 ½” they are...
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    Shower tray with upstands - cut into plasterboard?

    I've bought a Coram shower tray with upstands. I'm going to tile straight onto plasterboard. I notice the tray is quite proud on the wall. Would you guys/gals recommend cutting into the plasterbaord to recess the tray and make it flush for the tiling?
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    baton out or cut in?

    me again....:smilewinkgrin: what do you guys do,baton out or cut in the first row of tiles and tile up? i dont really have a preference,but if i use a baton i find i get started a lot quicker and see progress quicker than drawing a datum around the first row then cutting in every tile.So...
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    Cut & Paste problem.

    I cant seem to cut & paste...The copy & paste buttons do not do anything in the edit on tool bar menu. I have tried pressing ctlr+c and ctlr+v and still nothing...been into settings and it enabled, just does nothing...any ideas guys :thumbsup:
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    Row of cut tiles

    Howdy, I'm doing a tub/shower surround, doing the wall from the tub to the ceiling. The next bunch of rows I stick up will include the top row, which will all have to be cut. Since the ceiling is not parallel with the row of tile, each cut will be different. So here's my question. When you...
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    cut out

    had a fella ring me today asking if i can cut 125mm hole in a 300mm sq ceramic floor tile, i did it ,but it took a while to make it nice with a 4" grinder what do u use for large holes,steve:thumbsup:
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    How to cut floor tiles around shower tray

    There's been a lot of posts on here about cutting around obstacles so thought I'd post some pics of how I do it since I had a lot of these to do around the curved shower tray today. Full tiles are down: I place spacer to measure up to and also leave a couple of mm movement gap against obstacle...
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    Cut Marble Tiles in half?

    Afternoon all, We have just taken delivery of 23sqm of Soho Grey Polished Mable tiles, that measure 450x450. However apon reflection we are considering cutting each tile in half to create oblong tiles that measure 225x450. As I only own a cheap wet cut saw, even if were to buy a top quality...
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    Can I Haf cut porcalain tiles !

    Hi Guys... Ok this may seem like a daft question but... I have bought some large format 1200 x 150 tiles, there 12mm thick and i would like to cut some lines (half cut for grout) to make them appear smaller (say 400 x 150) can i just set up a cross cut with a stone blade (3mm) and adjust the...
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    cut tiles

    hi guys halfway through tiling small room,10tiles across 8 down ,with 100mill gap eiter side.Do i put in 100mcut tiles in before full one or leave it till i done all tiles then fill in the edges, and does the cut side go facing the wall or the tiles. hope this makes sense thx
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    Refit cut porcelain tiles; add bevel ?

    We had a conservatory floor tiled by our builders about 3 years ago. I noticed some tiles sounded hollow within a year but these were at the edges, so left. Not sure how the problem progressed but ended up checking thorougly and now have about 20% of floor tiles lifted with about 3/4 of these...

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