Drilling Through Hard Floor Tiles

Have the right bit for ceramic tile.

Drilling through hard floor tiles.

Make sure you have the right drill bit. Ceramic tile can be drilled with a carbide bit while glass and porcelain call for 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.

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. 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. 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. 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. This is a question that i ve featured before on a previous video. However when you drill in a really tough tiles i reco.

Carbide tipped drill bits cut through ceramic tiles. Adopt a patient approach with the correct tools and you have a high chance of success. It is ideal for porcelain and stone. Normal masonry or tile bits wont work.

The same goes for drilling into stone 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. Measure 7 times and drill once. Standard drill bits don t work on tile but not to worry.

Now that you know what you re up against let s look at the tools you ll need for drilling through tiles. 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. We covered drilling and fixing screws into.

Its all about patience. In this video i show how i drilled through some porcelain tile. The drills slide along the tile surface. 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.

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