Help! - As a PLUMBER we need your help to define diamond core tile drill sizes kits

[WHPES]

Re: Help! - As a PLUMBER we need your help to define diamond core tile drill sizes ki

Probably suits people over the pond but 14mm not too useful over here.

Personally my ideal set would be
6mm
8mm
16mm
25mm
35mm
45mm

I probably wouldn't use the other sizes much

Incidentally, the last few holes I cut I did with one of your cutters mounted in a pedestal drill in my workshop with the tile held in a water bath clamped to the drill table. Worked a treat! Where it is convenient, I always take the tiles to my workshop to drill this way as it's easier and more accurate than using the guide plate. The drill will last longer as I only cut at slow speeds, around 50rpm

 

[365drills]

Re: Help! - As a PLUMBER we need your help to define diamond core tile drill sizes ki

Incidentally, the last few holes I cut I did with one of your cutters mounted in a pedestal drill in my workshop with the tile held in a water bath clamped to the drill table. Worked a treat! Where it is convenient, I always take the tiles to my workshop to drill this way as it's easier and more accurate than using the guide plate. The drill will last longer as I only cut at slow speeds, around 50rpm

Many thanks for that feedback. One of the advantages I hope our kit (with the plate) gives you is CHOICE over where to drill your holes. You can (as you rightly state above) use the diamond core tile drills we supply in conjunction with a bench drill (drill press). This gives the most accurate and controlled results.

However in situations where the tiles are already fixed we hope the kit comes into its own by letting you drill FIXED tiles in-situ. Once tiles are fixed its impossible to get a bench drill into some of those awkward places.

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Obvious example - Need to put up a blind in a bathroom. How do you drill the very hard granite, porcelain, marble tiles already fitted?

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Yup its an upside down job! - Sometimes you have to be a contortionist in this game!

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And getting cooling water to work upside down needs patience - and the soaked sponges.

Personal hate on these jobs is when the cold water runs down both arms and into my armpits. Urrggggggghhhh I hate that feeling.