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.

Its all about patience. The drills slide along the tile surface. 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. Adopt a patient approach with the correct tools and you have a high chance of success.

Normal masonry or tile bits wont work. We covered drilling and fixing screws into. How do i drill into tiles without breaking them. 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. The same goes for drilling into stone tiles. Make sure you have the right drill bit. In this video i d like to show you how to drill easy in ceramic tiles using proper tile drill bit.

Hopefully you will not have to read the included instructions for repairing cracked tile. Often there is a problem with drilling. Standard drill bits don t work on tile but not to worry. It is ideal for porcelain and stone.

However when you drill in a really tough tiles i reco. Now that you know what you re up against let s look at the tools you ll need for drilling through tiles. Regardless of the material you re trying to bore through never use an old and worn out drill bit for 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.

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. Carbide tipped drill bits cut through ceramic 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. 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.

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

Porcelain tile looks a lot like regular ceramic tile but it s much harder.