Appartment development: opened for myself the right way to saw the tiles.
Feel so incredibly stupid that I did not use it before.
I used to saw the whole tile by corner grinding machine, since I did not see the proper rotating disk cutter which was capable to cut my ceramic tiles or granite. This process produced tons of dust. Well, maybe not tons, but anything in the appartments was covered with quite thick layer.
The first main problem to cut the tile is its glaze. This glass-like material is extremely strong in some tiles (especially for the ground cover). There is no such layer in the ceramic granite, but this material is very strong itself, which is the second main problem.
So, to cut the tile one has to scratch the whole glaze layer, and only produce very thin scratch so when force is applied to break the tile, the smallest energy level would be located along the scratch.
Today I opened a new way, which is basically above scratch, but made with the corner grinding machine help, which saws the glaze layer. To work well the sawed line should be as thin as possible, which is not that easy using my favourite device.
The 125mm cutting disk of the corner grinding machine
Moreover the sawed line will not be exactly straight and will contain upto couple of millimeters non-straight places, which may be ‘polished’ by the back side of the disk, it is covered with special scratches at the edge as you may see. But in the most cases the tile is sawed to be placed near the wall or when holes between tiles are supposed to be filled with the special plaster, so this will not be a serious problem.
Here is what can be quite easily made with above method.
Broken line
Scale is quite big, for the comparison the width of the sawed scratch is about 1-2 millimeters.
Not perfect, but if needed it can be polished. Main advantage of the method (guide in pictures) is amount of dust completely non-comparable with the whole-line sawing with essentially the same straightness. It is also much less noisy.
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Greetings from Bulgaria :)
Sawing tiles with corner grinding machine is totally ineffective. Most of workers here in Bulgaria are using a method quite similar to the methods for cutting glass – diamond rolling blade. In fact they use a simple instrument which can be described like blade guided by rails over a simple mechanism to hold the tiles in proper position. Here a link for such device http://www.sigma-ceramics.com/index.php?loc=26 sorry it is in bulgarian but looking at the pictures u can get the idea.
I cannot believe that there is no such tools in Russia also :)
There are such tools here of course, but it happend I do not have one. Actually I have two, but both failed to make a deep enough scratches. They are capable of cutting small wall tiles (like 20x30x6 mm) only.
And I wanted to get the one you showed on the picture, since it allows to cut them with different angles, but did not get a chance to buy one in the local shops or markets and moving somewhat far for the cutting machine is a bit overkill for lazy me :)
And I totally agree that sawing the tiles is way less effective than cutting them with the appropriate devices.