Drilling Through Hard Floor Tiles

Ceramic tile can be drilled with a carbide bit while glass and porcelain call for a diamond tipped bit.

Drilling through hard floor tiles.

Instead you should opt for either carbide tipped or diamond tipped drill bits. 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. In this video i show how i drilled through some porcelain tile. Hopefully you will not have to read the included instructions for repairing cracked tile.

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. Normal masonry or tile bits wont work. In this video i d like to show you how to drill easy in ceramic tiles using proper tile drill bit. Its all about patience.

Often there is a problem with drilling. However when you drill in a really tough tiles i reco. Regardless of the material you re trying to bore through never use an old and worn out drill bit for tile. The same goes for drilling into stone tiles.

We covered drilling and fixing screws into. Ceramic tile is both hard and brittle making it easy to damage both tile and drill bit. Standard drill bits don t work on tile but not to worry. Carbide tipped drill bits cut through ceramic tiles.

And yes you can use these drills in the future. Measure 7 times and drill once. Adopt a patient approach with the correct tools and you have a high chance of success. It is ideal for porcelain and stone.

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. How do i drill into tiles without breaking them. Now that you know what you re up against let s look at the tools you ll need for drilling through tiles. 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 point is that diamond tile drill bits ideally pass through even stone tiles. Porcelain tile looks a lot like regular ceramic tile but it s much harder. Porcelain requires 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.

The drills slide along the tile surface.