These joints are there to absorb pressure from shifting tiles.
Ceramic tile keeps splitting.
If you push the tile too fast towards the cutter you ll increase your chances of.
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If they are too thin the tiles won t have enough room to expand and contract causing cracking.
Because of the compressed fragile nature of tile it can crack break and fragment when you try to cut it.
In there i looked up loose tile and i counted no less than 30 different causes listed in this book.
If the wet saw s tray moves toward the cutter slowly cut the tile towards the blade and ensuring that the saw is constantly getting sprayed with water from the pump.
Dirty substrates thinset not mixed correctly thinset skinned over not enough thinset too much thinset wrong kind of thinset and on and on.
If the tile cracks are long continuous and extending across multiple tiles the concrete below has likely cracked.
Fourth a foundation problem can cause tiles to either pop at the grout lines or to form cracks in the tile surface.
You have to be very patient in cutting tiles whether it is a wet saw or a manual tile cutter.