| Ceramic tiles are thick and brittle, so a special saw is | | | | Table-mounted, portable wet tile saws allow for ease |
| needed for cutting them. Ordinary circular saws do | | | | of cutting and make for precision work. The saw |
| not cut ceramic tiles properly. Wet tile saws are | | | | combines a circular blade, similar to a wood table saw, |
| generally used to cut tiles made of ceramic. The | | | | with a water pump and hose that constantly |
| advent of the wet tile saw brought a real change in | | | | drenches the cutting area with water. This reduces |
| the way ceramic tiles were cut. The advantages of a | | | | friction and cools the surface.The quickest way to |
| wet tile saw are that it doesn't overheat, uses a | | | | cut ceramic tiles is by using a hand tile cutter. The tile |
| relatively dull blade with no serrations, and is portable. | | | | is placed on the padded bed against a frame |
| It can be transported to a job site and set up on top | | | | provided for support. Then the saw handle is pressed |
| of an existing table or a sawhorse.A wet tile saw | | | | down firmly and the titanium wheel is rolled along the |
| operates by grinding a channel through the tile. Then | | | | tile. Now when the handle is firmly pressed again, the |
| a blunt, wide, non serrated blade that uses sharp | | | | tile will break cleanly across the desired line. Tiles cut |
| sand crystals or diamond to cut is used instead of | | | | in this manner may not be cut very accurately.Heavy |
| sharpened metal. The use of these saws leaves a | | | | duty ceramic tile saws are available for cutting extra |
| clean, smooth edge. A tile setter can use such saws | | | | hard and dense domestic tiles. These saws come |
| to trim tiles at the installation site to fit the edges of | | | | equipped with large cutting wheels and |
| a room or to set the tiles in innovative patterns. | | | | specially-equipped handle carriages. |