Keep your bits cool.
How to drill marble wall tiles.
You can use several types of bits to drill through marble.
This helps to prevent the drill bit from walking when.
Use duct or masking tape over the surface area of the tile where the hole is to be drilled.
A step by step guide on how to drill through granite marble porcelain ceramic or terracotta tiles using a diamond ground tip geometry drill bit.
This guide to diamond drilling a tile will help make the job a lot easier.
To drill a hole in one of these materials.
Change your drill bit to suite the substrate the tiles.
Place the tip of the masonry drill bit in the pilot dimple and gently apply power to the drill.
You ve done all your prep you ve measured up and you ve got all the right gear it s.
Most marble tile installations rely on a tile wet saw or an angle grinder to make cuts in the stone.
Keep the power low you don t want to go fast.
Having trouble drilling tiles such as hard ceramic porcelain marble.
The secret to successful tile drilling is to keep your drill bits cool.
Start to drill through tiles.
Then measure again you cannot measure to many times.
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In this video i show how to use an inexpensive diamond tipped hole saw to drill a perfect hole in marble tile.
However for circular cuts made to fit around pipes and other appliance fittings you need to use a drill to cut through the stone.