The polishing is done with a hand held pad straight cut with normal continuous blade or score and snap tile cutter then bevel back of tile until a few mm of initial cut is left then polish with hand pad to get a nice tight mitre dont think bunnings has them go to a tile shop cheers pulse.

I have a restroom that i am helping renovate and the tube and the tile around it are stained black with dead mold been bleached and killed is there some sort of nylon brush that i could mount to a angle grinder or buffer to clean the grout out without hurting it right.

I was watching videos on cutting tiles with angle grinder and came a cross one where the tile was cut on what looked like a large board reply to angle grinder cutting on top of a board in the uk tiling forum tile advice forum area at tilersforumscom name post reply insert quotes similar threads l what tool to use for cutting trim.

3892 posts 3 9 mo ago jamespao said hello ive run into a problem i need to to remove some very stubborn thinset in my basement bathroom and also level some uneven concrete i decided to try out the angle grinder method i have a bosch 1375a 45 angle grinder ridgid 5 diamond cup wheel and a herzo 45 universal dust shroud.

Tile removal concrete grinder renovate forum 20070305 im starting to think the builders skimped and used concrete instead of tile adhesive anyway all the adhesive or whatever they used is still on the floor complete with intact notched trowl pattern i think we will hire a concrete grinder with diamond wheel to try remove it all and get the surface level for retiling.

Renovate forum 05032007 im starting to think the builders skimped and used concrete instead of tile adhesive anyway all the adhesive or whatever they used is still on the floor complete with intact notched trowl pattern i think we will hire a concrete grinder with diamond wheel to try remove it all and get the surface level for retiling.

How big is the surface we had to remove tile glue for a large area and we just rented a concrete grinder if its a small area you can probably rent a small grinder removing tile adhesive from concrete doityourselfcom removing tile adhesive from concrete removing tile.

Introduction of fc3c2a1b floor scabbling machine fc3c2a1b floor scabbling machine with singledoublethree bits is mainly used for chipping the concrete surface layer on highways bridge deck railways bridge deck and box girder for roughening repair renovation and secondary reinforcement of concrete surface of building walls grounds and civil engineering and for metal rust removal.

The hole could be the biggest problem if it doesnt land on the edge of a tile and im assuming it doesnt locate your hole on the tile surface use the grinder to etch the circlehole on the tiles surface turn the tile over and grindout bisque from the backside until you can chip away the proper hole from the frontside.

Guys im looking for a 455 angle grinder with an excellent dust extraction feature for cutting not flat grinding does not have to be very powerful in fact a 10 amp motor or less would be plenty there are many combinations from bosch milwaukee.

Sounds like cement based tile adhesive to me the grinder may be one option but you can also get a floor tool attachment for the jack hammer that is designed for the job it is a wide steel blade maybe 150200mm wide cheers michael 5th mar 2007 1133 pm nigel2 quote.

This is probably the residue from the old method of glueing tiles sprinkle neat cement onto a damp bed of sand cement and place the tiles on top i just used a very thin layer of self levelling compound to fill the depressions you will have to thin it quite a lot though a lot quicker than trying to get it perfectly flat with the rotary hammer.

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2364 originally posted by toolin around doubt a belt sander will do anything diamond wheel in an angle grinder is probably the cheapest solution or find someone with a tile saw toolin got the right idea for so few tiles just catch em in a vise and grind em down on the edges with a masonry wheel cheers bob.

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A grinder is way too powerful and will most likely chip the tile making it worse than before there is a mesh sanding pad made for smoothing the tile edges that might work with a lot of hand work i cant recall where i bought it.

So far ive only done shower tile jobs and havent had to make the kind of lcuts and rounded cuts you need for floor tile i dont have the money or even the space in my jeep to get a good wet saw i can get a continuous rim dry diamond blade for both my rotozip and my circular saw to make those kinds of cuts.

How much material will a concrete grinder remove a concrete grinder uses diamonds or sometimes tungsten to grind off layers of concrete most people use a concrete grinder to remove very small amounts of concrete or to remove glues and imperfections from concrete.

Cutting concrete with angle grinder renovate forum the pros use them dry on small angle grinders to cut notches and stuff out of ceramic tiles but you also see them on all of the powered tile saws that run wet the penalty of this gentle cutting however is that they are too slow for thicker material which is why you instead see the segmentedtype disks in the dedicated wet.

Tile removalconcrete grinder renovate forumgrinding of cement tiles 32the tiles are coming up ok but leaving a very hard ridged concrete like residue behind this is proving almost impossible to remove with a tile removal how to grind cement behind tiles our powerful tile cutting tool is ideal for shaping ceramic wall tile around.