Drilling Through Hard Floor Tiles

The point is that diamond tile drill bits ideally pass through even stone tiles.

Drilling through hard floor tiles.

Normal masonry or tile bits wont work. Its all about patience. 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. 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.

In this video i d like to show you how to drill easy in ceramic tiles using proper tile drill bit. How do i drill into tiles without breaking them. Ceramic tile can be drilled with a carbide bit while glass and porcelain call for a diamond tipped bit. However when you drill in a really tough tiles i reco.

Measure 7 times and drill once. Ceramic tile is both hard and brittle making it easy to damage both tile and drill bit. Instead you should opt for either carbide tipped or diamond tipped drill bits. 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.

Adopt a patient approach with the correct tools and you have a high chance of success. Hopefully you will not have to read the included instructions for repairing cracked tile. 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. Porcelain tile looks a lot like regular ceramic tile but it s much harder.

It is ideal for porcelain and stone. And yes you can use these drills in the future. Regardless of the material you re trying to bore through never use an old and worn out drill bit for tile. Have the right bit for ceramic tile.

Carbide tipped drill bits cut through ceramic tiles. In this video i show how i drilled through some porcelain tile. The same goes for drilling into stone tiles. This is a question that i ve featured before on a previous video.

Make sure you have the right drill bit. Often there is a problem with drilling. We covered drilling and fixing screws into. Now that you know what you re up against let s look at the tools you ll need for drilling through tiles.

Standard drill bits don t work on tile but not to worry.