Porcelain dust - Does it contain silica or any other nasties? - Tile Advice

[Flintstone]

does anyone know if it contains silica or other nasties or can we all breathe it in for fun?

 

[widler]

Apparently its well bad for you.
Bit late for most of us if it is

 

[Tile Shop]

Yes it does. sorry to ruin your day

Quartz too.

And..... reading up on it, also contained in limestone.

 

[Tile Shop]

I guess we are only talking in small quantities, but time to get some face masks maybe?

Worth a read:
Silica - https://digitalfire.com/4sight/material/silica_1245.html

 

[One Day]

Cumulative effects are what will bite you later. Personally, i try to be very careful mixing and cutting. If i don't wear a mask then i hold my breath. I can still do 25m underwater and i reckon it's the practise i get cutting porcelain which keeps my lungs like that!

 

[Flintstone]

I've started wearing mask when ever I'm mixing since the last few months, been a bit chesty. I'm well into it now, was just cutting a porcelain tile with the grinder earlier and even tho using a sponge, there is still some dust.

 

[Kyle Knowles]

Cumulative effects are what will bite you later. Personally, i try to be very careful mixing and cutting. If i don't wear a mask then i hold my breath. I can still do 25m underwater and i reckon it's the practise i get cutting porcelain which keeps my lungs like that!

I bet ur a student of Wim ( The Ice Man ) Hoff

 

[Kyle Knowles]

I've started wearing mask when ever I'm mixing since the last few months, been a bit chesty. I'm well into it now, was just cutting a porcelain tile with the grinder earlier and even tho using a sponge, there is still some dust.

I think even when u wet cut there's airborne mist containing them nasty particles

 

[One Day]

I bet ur a student of Wim ( The Ice Man ) Hoff

I like a cold shower. Yes.

 

[Kyle Knowles]

I like a cold shower. Yes.

I watched him on the joe Rogan experience the guys mad as a box of frogs but his stuff works I had my Mrs time me holding my breath for 3 mins using his techniques

 

[One Day]

I watched him on the joe Rogan experience the guys mad as a box of frogs but his stuff works I had my Mrs time me holding my breath for 3 mins using his techniques

I've read his stuff and i buy into the whole mind over body thing. Try the cold shower thing, it's the hardest most painful thing I've ever done (ever) but it really makes you feel supercharged.

 

[One Day]

He is a nutter though.

 

[Flintstone]

I once held my breathe for 3 minutes when I had to pay a visit to the porta loo at V festival

 

[Andy Allen]

One reason why I never use a grinder.
I wet cut everything .

 

[Tile Shop]

I once held my breathe for 3 minutes when I had to pay a visit to the porta loo at V festival

You wanna try the long drops at Glastonbury on a hot summers day!