Drilling Through Hard Floor Tiles

Carbide tipped drill bits cut through ceramic tiles.

Drilling through hard floor tiles.

Measure 7 times and drill once. 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. 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. Porcelain tile looks a lot like regular ceramic tile but it s much harder.

How do i drill into tiles without breaking them. Instead you should opt for either carbide tipped or diamond tipped drill bits. 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.

The same goes for drilling into stone tiles. The drills slide along the tile surface. 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.

The point is that diamond tile drill bits ideally pass through even stone tiles. However when you drill in a really tough tiles i reco. Porcelain requires a diamond tipped bit. Make sure you have the right drill 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. 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. This is a question that i ve featured before on a previous video. Ceramic tile can be drilled with a carbide bit while glass and porcelain call for a diamond tipped bit.

Have the right bit for ceramic tile. Regardless of the material you re trying to bore through never use an old and worn out drill bit for tile. And yes you can use these drills in the future. In this video i d like to show you how to drill easy in ceramic tiles using proper tile drill 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. Often there is a problem with drilling. Adopt a patient approach with the correct tools and you have a high chance of success.

In this video i show how i drilled through some porcelain tile.