How to Cut Mexican Tile

Name: How to Cut Mexican Tile
Uploaded: 2022-08-05T13:32:06+00:00
Duration: 2 min 33 s
Description: http://www.AsktheBuilder.com founder, Tim Carter, demonstrates how to cut Mexican tile using an angle grinder with a dry diamond blade. Mexican tile is soft and a 4.5-inch grinder works well. The best blade is a dry-diamond blade. Cut slow to avoid overheating. Curved cuts can be made with a grinder. Tight curves can be done by only allowing a small amount of the blade into the tile.

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Hi, I'm Tim Carter, AskTheBuilder.com. I'm out here in Southern California and I'm going to do a repair job for a friend of mine on his patio
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The person who installed this Mexican tile patio made a big mistake and they had the tiles extend out over the concrete slab below
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And as a result of that, what happened is if you would stand on the edge of some of the tiles, they would snap off
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So to prevent any more damage, I'm going to use a nice angle grinder to go ahead and cut off the excess that is hanging out over the edge
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Let me show you what I'm talking about. Look down here. Okay, you can see right here, I've got a pencil line
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I drew this pencil line, and underneath this tile, that's the edge of the concrete slab
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so I'm going to use an angle grinder with a dry diamond blade to go ahead and cut
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right through here and cut this off it's going to do a magnificent job
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so Okay you can see how easy it is and how powerful this is
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It cuts really fast because this Mexican tile typically is very soft
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It does not take a lot of effort to cut through it. And if you want to cut tighter curves, don't bury as much of the blade into the tile
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The deeper you go into the tile with the blade, the less curvature you're going to have on your cut
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It's that simple. I'm Tim Carter, AskTheBuilder.com. If you want to discover more home improvement tips, go to askthebuilder.com
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Thank you

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