365 drills - Tile Advice

[enduro]

They sent them today, and it said i takes 2 days by royal mail post.
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Well my drills arrived today, for my job tmro..Thanks 365Drills

 

[Gazzer]

Dont panic

 

[enduro]

Well what can i say about these drills, got to the job this morning and the foreman said the plumber cant drill those tiles 12mm porcelain tiles, i said i have a diamond drill that will do it no problem, thats what he had the foreman said....Panic set in then, anyway the plumber turned up and around 10am we were read to drill the holes, by this time we had quite a crowd of guys watching to see me fail, so i put my 8mm drill bit in my drill put the gauge on the wall and started to drill...AND GUESS WHAT IT DID IT, thanks 365Drills

 

[Deleted member 1779]

Re: 365 drills : Diamond drilling of very hard porcelain tiles

Always good to know the drills perform as well as (or better than) expected.

Porcelain tiles are a tough nut to crack so we cant scrimp on the diamonds on the tip of each drill.

I've had the same scenario where a whole room full of people appear to see what these drill will do.

I went to a job where the tiniest bathroom was filled with sparkies, chippies, the designer, the tiler, the home owner, his wife and a couple of contractors waiting to see what would happen. Its a bit scary when they are all watching and waiting to see what happens.

Just as well they work eh !

The "Bathroom Fitters Kit-MAX" Seven careully selected drills in five sizes

 

[eatsmice]

After loads of reading on this site, I fell for the ruthless marketing! Thank goodness I did. Used the 16mm bit today and it left perfect holes for my heating piping.
First tiling job using large format tiles and was nervous of splitting them while drilling (before laying). Now have no fear at all and looking forward to doing the holes for the shower pipes.

Cheers.

 

[eatsmice]

Thought I'd add a bit of info.

These were Le Piezza "Porcellanato" tiles (500mm x 330mm x 9mm). Cut the tiles to 7cm width before drilling. Drilled flat on a workmate bench using a cordless driver at "screw" speed with constant flow from a hose. The cut took about 5mins at that speed, but the bit stayed pretty much cold throughout. I need to cut a total of 6 16mm holes in these tiles hence the slow speed, but I'll happily take advice if this is an unnecessarily slow speed?

Perfect cut to run Hep2o plastic radiator pipe through. Added a pic of the drilled tiles.

PS It was the Bathroom Fitters kit I bought.

 

[DHTiling]

I think you can use a faster speed than that as long as you keep it cooled with water as you say.........

 

[Deleted member 1779]

You are doing all the right things to get the maximum life out of the core and the most numbers of holes.

Providing you keep the core cold (max warm) you should
get the proper life span.

DONT : Heat the core. Drill too fast. Apply too much pressure.

DO: Keep the core cool. Drill at setting 1 on a hand drill. Apply gentle pressure.

If the tiles are not fixed and you can drill them outside its easier to apply a continuous water supply via a hosepipe - over a drain etc.

If the tiles are fixed (and vertical) Then holding a wet sponge under the core will cool it down plus it will collect the dust at the drill site.

 

[Dan]

Don't mind me while I bump up some of the old threads. I wont be doing this much more. Just the last few in the Tile Drilling forum - How to Drill Porcelain Tiles. Just one of the many tiling advice forums.