How To Grind Down Ceramic Tile

Ceramic tile is a durable and attractive flooring option for practically any room of the home.

How to grind down ceramic tile.

Porcelain tile is a beautiful way to enhance your home. While loose tiles are cut using a tile wet saw installed tiles need to be cut with hand tools. Which you could just grind down the edge with. Nippers trim away small chunks of material which leaves behind a rough jagged edge.

Ceramic is a very hard material and you need special tools to grind it properly. Installing ceramic floor tile is fairly simple until you reach the edges of the room or fixtures such as cabinets pedestal sinks and toilets. The process is similar to polishing stone and other natural tiles. But cutting these hard materials presents a unique challenge.

A diamond blade has diamond grit embedded in the steel rim to grind away hard materials. In these cases you must grind down the ceramic floor tiles. You will need special equipment that includes an angle grinder and porcelain grinding bit. Porcelain tiles have sharp edges when cut especially if you used tile nippers to trim them.

However if you literally have only a couple of tiles you need trimmed bringing them to a tile shop might be the best option pay them a couple of bucks to trim them for you. In some cases you will need to grind this tile to get rid of a stained surface or to shape the tiles for special installation. It will grind down a ceramic tile or object with precision. Stone porcelain and glass tiles offer beautiful options for bath and kitchen tiling projects.

A ceramic grinder uses a metal aluminum oxide or similar grinding wheel this is a wheel that has sharp metal flakes of aluminum oxide glued to the surface much like sandpaper. Straight cuts are easy to make with a diamond wet saw. It will grind down a ceramic tile or object with precision.