How to Begin a Three Sided Cut with a Tile Saw

Video Transcript

" Hi, this is Brian Carter on behalf of Expertvillage.com. I have 10 years of ceramic tile installation experience. Today I am going to show you how to make the three-sided cut using the ceramic tile wet saw. We need to make sure that we know where we are going to go, we are going to cut right here. We need to get a straight cut here, you can’t go in this way because the blades are too big, it will cut the rest of our tile and will have damage on top of the surface. So what we are going to do is cut straight lines through and get to our target spot and then we will clean it up, and I’ll show you how to clean that up later. Good we are just going to keep doing this over and over again. As you can see we are starting to create what looks like it’s going to become a line at the very end of each cut. This might look a little complex but it is not. Take it slow and easy. That’s the key of this, cutting this tile, is patience. Oh! Okay, that’s okay, we just knocked that piece off. That’s okay. This is above our target line. Now we are going to trim it up and make that look nice and even. We are going to go side-to-side with the ceramic blade, just like so. We’re just going to go nice and easy and get it right where that edge is. These wet blades are very smooth, they won’t knock the tile out of your hand unless you give too much pressure. If you’re just patient and go nice and easy, look at that! That’s where that piece knocked off. It is a nice straight line that looks pretty good."