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Post by tomplum on Oct 5, 2024 19:37:55 GMT
Sorry I've not been around for a few weeks, anyrode, I've just found these on a facebook short video and I was well impressed so I ordered a set off Amazon for £8.99
I'll let you know if they live up to the video
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Post by dickpuller on Oct 6, 2024 11:58:16 GMT
Sorry I've not been around for a few weeks, anyrode, I've just found these on a facebook short video and I was well impressed so I ordered a set off Amazon for £8.99 I'll let you know if they live up to the video It would be good to know what they’re like on porcelain tiles Tom?? I hope you’re doing OK? |
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Post by crowsfoot on Oct 6, 2024 18:12:46 GMT
That's the big question Dick.
I once had a WC to renew were a customer was going to porcelain tile the floor and asked if I wanted to fit the new WC to the wooden floor today or come back after the floor had been tiled?
I chose the first option (I'm not going to burn out an unknown number of bits costing upwards of £50 each and about an hours worth of sweat/hole if I don't need to).
A different job but the same problem I once had was were a customer had actually tiled the walls with porcelain floor tiles and I had a new electric shower to fit.
I very cunningly fitted the shower in such a position that I could just drill the joints to get a fixing, thus avoiding drilling the dreaded P tiles!!
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Post by tomplum on Oct 6, 2024 20:46:52 GMT
Yes Dick I'm good thanks though, I seem to be going to a lot of funerals to my old buddies ( shiver ), Its a wake up call, anyrode, The drills came today and, they piss through , wood, metal and stainless steel ceramic tiles but the dreaded porcelain, There are as good as the cheap arrowhead drills you get from shitfix and not much better, Glass, you can forget that, I'll be doing a video before i send them back as, " not as described " for a full refund,  |
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Post by dickpuller on Oct 7, 2024 5:32:09 GMT
That's the big question Dick. I once had a WC to renew were a customer was going to porcelain tile the floor and asked if I wanted to fit the new WC to the wooden floor today or come back after the floor had been tiled? I chose the first option (I'm not going to burn out an unknown number of bits costing upwards of £50 each and about an hours worth of sweat/hole if I don't need to). A different job but the same problem I once had was were a customer had actually tiled the walls with porcelain floor tiles and I had a new electric shower to fit. I very cunningly fitted the shower in such a position that I could just drill the joints to get a fixing, thus avoiding drilling the dreaded P tiles!! Ah, and here comes my opportunity to step up to the Plate, sporting my Superhero Cape & Y fronts outside my trousers. To ride off into the Sunset with the buxom madden, for endless ruppy pumpy in the Hay.......the hero of the day!!! Here’s the best tip I got from an old Tiler for drilling porcelain wall/floor tiles; Buy the cheapo Chinky diamond tile bits 6/7mm, slowly start boring the tile in the marked spot. One of these suckers with the holes help here. Once the hole is started, squirt plenty water & go for it - remember plenty water!! On floor tiles once the hole is started, make a wee Dam of Plumbers Mait, that’ll contain enough water for the job. Once you’re 1/2-3/4 the way through the tile, stop. Use a hammer & masonry nail to punch through the hole. Job done!!! |
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Post by tomplum on Oct 7, 2024 20:21:11 GMT
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Post by crowsfoot on Oct 8, 2024 11:17:38 GMT
Thumps up from me, and if I was still working I'd certainly have given them a go along with trying Dicks tip for drilling those dreaded porcelain tiles.
Did very little with glass during the last 30 years of my working life, however, I seem to remember once drilling it with a pool of oil, very much like in dicks PT tip above.
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