Drilling Through Tiles

[tim'll fix it]

i have the £300 armeg kit

it works on everything I have put against it

i also bought the water cooler kit which is garden sprayer for £30

i found both the drill and hole saws work very quickly when used with the water cooling kit, they do slow down as they blunt

faults,

well the holesaws have a fault in that the diamond coating creates a ridge inside the hole saw and wont cut through a thick tile, but if you drill it from both sides it works

and I broke two tile drills having to drill down a grout joint, but thats my fault really

and the bits are very expensive

[marlowmole]

oh cant see anybody mentioning the method my dad told me to use...

use tile cutter, one of the fixed scorer ones,
mark where you want to drill with pencil
and then twist the cutter to break the glaze / make a starter hole.
Drill with a masonary bit.

No hammers, water or special drill bits needed and I didnt crack a tile (drilled a LOT of holes in the tiles in my last kitchen)

[panlid]

in porcelain?

[marlowmole]

in porcelain

they were white, ceramic wall tiles, the 6" ones stuck onto plasterboard walls. I used the method on the ones already in the kitchen and the ones I put up in the bathroom. Only damage was that I blunted the masonry drill bit in the end...

[panlid]

marlow. i could drill through a 6"white ceramic tile with my finger. you try drilling porcelain with a masonry drill. you will find after 30 bits and 4 days you may be off looking for diamond tipped drill bits and a water cooler.