Pre cut penny tiles in various sizes we found the best way to cut penny tiles was with a pair of tile nippers.
Cutting penny tile for flooring.
It s really important to place penny tiles in a way that makes the line where each sheet meets less obvious so we found that a staggered pattern was the best method for us to achieve a seamless result.
Squeeze the handles of the tile snips together.
That way your eye doesn t catch one seam and follow it all the way across the room more on that here.
How to use tile nippers to cut penny rounds.
1 self leveling concrete 2 sealant 3 tile thin set for the non cut tiles 4 all the tiles that needed to be cut with the wet saw 5 thin set all those new tiles in place steps yet to be finished 7 grout 8 sealing the grout 9 painting the walls 10 floor molding and i m sure i m missing some.
Where you place the tile is important.
Place a piece of tile in the jaws of the tile nippers.
If you want the tile cut exactly in half place the jaws along the center of the circle.
We also played around with each sheet of tile after squishing them into the thinset scooching them a bit to the left or the right or higher since they were on a sheet of mesh it was.
When you get to the edges of the walls and where the wall meets the ceiling.