How to cut tiles at an angle without a special tool

When, when facing walls with ceramic tiles or porcelain stoneware, it becomes necessary to process the direct outer angle, the question arises: “How to cut off the end of the tile at an angle of 45 degrees so that the connection is maximized even? ” Someone solves a problem with this problem simply - replaces a tile with a plastic corner. But this is fraught with a lot of problems, because plastic can be of poor quality, and it still does not look very aesthetically pleasing. Therefore, in order for the room and its processed parts to look as presentable as possible, it is still worth cutting the tiles. To do this is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. To make the gash perfect, you will need an electric tile cutter, that is, a special machine for cutting tiles. But you can get by with an ordinary grinder with the corresponding drive.

It is quite possible to work with it if you have experience using this tool. It is enough to fix a good high-quality disk to it, install the desired tile on the edge and grind the wrong side out at an angle. Small roughnesses and irregularities can be removed either manually with sandpaper or use a sanding machine, if any.

As for the details of the process itself, it is necessary during the cut to try not to reach the glazed part of about 0.5-1 mm and remove only the clay layer. When even the front side is slightly touched, the edge is uneven, inaccurate, and it is very difficult to fix it. If you need to cut a piece of tile and remove the clay edge from it at an angle of 45 degrees, then you need to tidy up the front edge with fine sandpaper. A small aesthetic trick in this case is that if you need to cut out a specific piece in a tile, for processing external corner, you need to cut at an angle from the factory processing of the tile, cut the desired fragment and place the cut to be applied to the wall. Thus, the external angle is as even as possible, and the roughness of the cut edge remains almost invisible.

To place the tile as accurately as possible in place of the outer corner, you need to glue the first tile, leveling it so that the trimmed edge slightly extends beyond the wall plane. Immediately after this, while the glue has not yet dried, a second counter tile is applied. Due to the fact that the glue is still wet, you can adjust and form the desired angle. And of course, before laying, you need to make sure that the walls are ideal vertical and do not have a slope in or out. Such corners with cladding tiles can be used in almost any part of the home, except for those where the corner will be under load. For example, on the steps there is another technology for laying tiles. If there is a risk that the corners will be chipped or scratched, it is better to use metal corners.