Drilling Through Hard Floor Tiles

How do i drill into tiles without breaking them.

Drilling through hard floor tiles.

Hopefully you will not have to read the included instructions for repairing cracked tile. Ceramic tile is both hard and brittle making it easy to damage both tile and drill bit. The drills slide along the tile surface. This is a question that i ve featured before on a previous video.

We covered drilling and fixing screws into. Carbide tipped drill bits cut through ceramic tiles. Ceramic tile can be drilled with a carbide bit while glass and porcelain call for a diamond tipped bit. Instead you should opt for either carbide tipped or diamond tipped drill bits.

And yes you can use these drills in the future. 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. Have the right bit for ceramic tile. 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.

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

The same goes for drilling into stone tiles. In this video i show how i drilled through some porcelain tile. It is ideal for porcelain and stone. Often there is a problem with drilling.

Measure 7 times and drill once. Porcelain requires a diamond tipped 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. However when you drill in a really tough tiles i reco.

Its all about patience. Make sure you have the right drill bit. Normal masonry or tile bits wont work. Standard drill bits don t work on tile but not to worry.

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