Drilling Through Hard Floor Tiles

It is ideal for porcelain and stone.

Drilling through hard floor tiles. In this video i d like to show you how to drill easy in ceramic tiles using proper tile drill bit. Standard drill bits don t work on tile but not to worry. 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. The same goes for drilling into stone tiles.

In this video i show how i drilled through some porcelain tile. We covered drilling and fixing screws into. Regardless of the material you re trying to bore through never use an old and worn out drill bit for tile. Ceramic tile can be drilled with a carbide bit while glass and porcelain call for a diamond tipped bit.

Ceramic tile is both hard and brittle making it easy to damage both tile and drill bit. Normal masonry or tile bits wont work. 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. Porcelain requires a diamond tipped bit.

Hopefully you will not have to read the included instructions for repairing cracked tile. How do i drill into tiles without breaking them. 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. Make sure you have the right drill bit.

However when you drill in a really tough tiles i reco. Porcelain tile looks a lot like regular ceramic tile but it s much harder. Its all about patience. Adopt a patient approach with the correct tools and you have a high chance of success.

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. The point is that diamond tile drill bits ideally pass through even stone tiles. This is a question that i ve featured before on a previous video. 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.

And yes you can use these drills in the future. The drills slide along the tile surface. Instead you should opt for either carbide tipped or diamond tipped drill bits. Have the right bit for ceramic tile.

Often there is a problem with drilling.