New Big Clinker cracking tiles

[ryan83]

Hi everyone. Ive been having similar bother with tiles breaking. I use a TX700. Today I was laying 600x400 porcelain and found that when i pressed the breaker down the tile would split as normal till maybe about halfway down it would crack. This happened a couple of times until i ended up just having to use my wet cutter. Could this also be due to the breaker being in the wrong postion? Also, i tried using a bigger blade, and snapping the breaker down a bit quicker but tiles just kept on cracking. This happened when cutting long ways down the tile. Ive never had this problem when working with porcelain before. Any advice would be much appreciated. cheers.

 

[DHTiling]

Do you score just once or twice etc..? Some heavy glazed tiles need scoring more than once..

 

[ryan83]

Yeah I tried scoring a couple of times, I also stuck bigger blade on and went over alot heavier than i normally would. I ended up just trying different ways on the broken/cracked tiles and nothing seemed to work consisently.

 

[DHTiling]

Try scoring the back of the tile and break upside down.. that can worl sometimes as well...

Some hard fired glazed ones can be difficult to break..

 

[ryan83]

Thank you Dave. I'll give that a go if it happens again. I think thats about the only thing I didnt try today.

Cheers again.

 

[david campbell]

sometimes with the big clinker the second score will break the tile for you on cheaper ceramics,i've occasionally hadthis problem with b&q tiles