Drilling Through Hard Floor Tiles

As mentioned earlier drilling through tile requires a specialist drill bit regular or even masonry bits simply won t do the job as they re not strong enough to penetrate tiles hard surfaces.

Drilling through hard floor tiles. Porcelain requires a diamond tipped bit. You have to lubricate the drill bit consistently and i did that by myself with a recycled dish washing liquid bottle 500ml with a hole in the bottle cap. Ceramic tile is both hard and brittle making it easy to damage both tile and drill bit. Carbide tipped drill bits cut through ceramic tiles.

Measure 7 times and drill once. We covered drilling and fixing screws into. Instead you should opt for either carbide tipped or diamond tipped drill bits. Have the right bit for ceramic tile.

Ceramic tile can be drilled with a carbide bit while glass and porcelain call for a diamond tipped bit. The aim of this blog is to give a little bit of an insight into how to drill porcelain and other types of tiles successfully and accurately drilling a neat. It is ideal for porcelain and stone. This is a question that i ve featured before on a previous video.

Adopt a patient approach with the correct tools and you have a high chance of success. Standard drill bits don t work on tile but not to worry. Regardless of the material you re trying to bore through never use an old and worn out drill bit for tile. Often there is a problem with drilling.

In this video i d like to show you how to drill easy in ceramic tiles using proper tile drill bit. Porcelain tile looks a lot like regular ceramic tile but it s much harder. I used high speed steel drill bit for piloting through the tile glaze and then used the masonry bit to drive through right at the end. And yes you can use these drills in the future.

The same goes for drilling into stone tiles. However when you drill in a really tough tiles i reco. Hopefully you will not have to read the included instructions for repairing cracked tile. Another major factor these days with very hard vitrified porcelain tiles becoming more and more popular is to select a drill bit that will actually drill through the tile successfully.

In this video i show how i drilled through some porcelain tile. The point is that diamond tile drill bits ideally pass through even stone tiles. Make sure you have the right drill bit. The drills slide along the tile surface.

How do i drill into tiles without breaking them.