Cut the tile, do you need a bevel on the cut?

[limpan78]

Hello!

I need to cut down my 30x30 tiles into smaller pieces to place around the slope.

The tiles I have today have a bevel of maybe 8 degrees. I could fix that by letting one side of the tile rest on a piece of wood while cutting, but it complicates things a bit.

Do you have to have this bevel? It feels like it might be intended to get the tile out of the mold during production.

 

[limpan78]

I can add that I'm cutting with a tile saw (diamond blade in water).

 

[MathiasS]

Above all, it doesn't look very nice with completely straight edges. It looks very "cut off." Why not lay a smaller tile of the same kind or mosaic in the shower?

 

[limpan78]

Unfortunately, there are only 30x30 of the type we want. It's in a laundry room and a mudroom where it will be laid, so mosaic would probably look very strange.

 

[Oldboy]

Chamfering not only makes it visually more attractive but also more comfortable to walk on. In this case, since it wasn't a shower, it's mainly a question of appearance.

It's probably possible to chamfer (a little) with a grinding disc. Mostly just to remove the sharp edge. Then it depends on whether the tile is full-bodied or not. If it's not full-bodied, the edge will probably turn white or whatever base color the material has.

 

[limpan78]

They are solid-colored. I may have expressed that a bit awkwardly. They are beveled with a radius of about a mm, and then they are not completely perpendicular at the edge; instead, they deviate by maybe 8 degrees—imagine the bottom of a pyramid.

I will grind down the small bevel, but it's the pyramid shape that I'm wondering about. I'm on my phone now, but I can provide a picture later.

 

[Oldboy]

Maybe you have already cut, but when I bought tiles yesterday, I was out today looking at the edge. They are not beveled but instead made like a double sandwich where the bottom layer was a couple of mm wider, which gives the same "function." I don't know what they (the edges/beveling) do, but if it seems to be the case with tiles in general, there is probably a reason.