Drilling porcelain tiles

[Aztectiler]

Hi everyone,

I found this on you tube while looking around the web thought others would find it helpful.

YouTube - TILE DRILLING TIP

 

[White Room]

I thought morph might make an appearance:smilewinkgrin:

 

[Leatherface]

simple yet effective

 

[Rob Z]

Plumbers putty has some sort of oil in it that will stain natural stone, so don't use it on that.

 

[Deleted member 1779]

Simple? I dont think so!

1) You are restricted to small sizes only.
2) The drill is carbide so will burn out.
3) You can only drill floors. What about the mirror and cabinet on the wall.
4) Its too fussy.

If you want to drill a hole quickly, neatly and without any fuss you MUST use diamonds.

How to drill small holes at ANY angle

Save the putty for the kids...

365Drills make diamond drills so you can use them on a wall.

 

[chris.tiling]

Richard has beaten me to it...was gonna tell you to look up his site!

 

[Deleted member 1779]

30 Second video on how to drill a tile ON A WALL.

[yt]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QIevHpFcq4g&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QIevHpFcq4g&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/yt]

No need to mess about with bits of putty.

 

[graybags]

My plumber just used a masonary drill with hammer action for fitting the shower cubicle !!!!!!!!!!

Did the trick thank heavens , although if I had been there I would have said Nooooooooooooooooooo !

 

[Deleted member 1779]

Whaatttttttttt HAMMER ACTION ON PORCELAIN :yikes::yikes:

That is not a good thing to do on brand new tiles. You were lucky!

 

[graybags]

Too right, I was also concerned that the vibration might have knocked the plasterboard off the other side of the wall !!:yikes: