Drilling Through Hard Floor Tiles

Adopt a patient approach with the correct tools and you have a high chance of success.

Drilling through hard floor tiles.

In this video i show how i drilled through some porcelain tile. Normal masonry or tile bits wont work. Its all about patience. The drills slide along the tile surface.

Porcelain tile looks a lot like regular ceramic tile but it s much harder. Carbide tipped drill bits cut through ceramic tiles. 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.

How do i drill into tiles without breaking them. 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. And yes you can use these drills in the future.

Instead you should opt for either carbide tipped or diamond tipped drill bits. In this video i d like to show you how to drill easy in ceramic tiles using proper tile drill bit. Measure 7 times and drill once. This is a question that i ve featured before on a previous video.

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. Often there is a problem with drilling. The point is that diamond tile drill bits ideally pass through even stone tiles. Make sure you have the right drill bit.

It is ideal for porcelain and stone. Ceramic tile is both hard and brittle making it easy to damage both tile and drill bit. 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 requires a diamond tipped bit.

Ceramic tile can be drilled with a carbide bit while glass and porcelain call for a diamond tipped bit. Now that you know what you re up against let s look at the tools you ll need for drilling through 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. 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.

Hopefully you will not have to read the included instructions for repairing cracked tile.