How to facilitate the process of drilling a tile with a crown and at the same time extend its service life. A useful trick.

During renovation in the bathroom quite often there is a need make holes in ceramic tilesunder pipes, mixers, socket.

It is convenient to use for these purposes special diamond core bit.

And everything would be fine, but only such a crown is quite expensive.

And besides, also her service life is short.

You can, of course, find another way to solve the problem.

But not necessarily.

After all there is a simple trick, which will help to extend the service life of the diamond core bit, and even facilitate the drilling process itself.

Which one? Consider below.

To extend the life of the diamond core bit, it is necessary to moisten it with water during the drilling process.

The fact is that when drilling a hole in a ceramic tile, the crown begins to heat up.

And excessive heating leads to its faster wear (diamond grains are worn out).

In this case Wetting the drilling site with water removes heat from the heated diamond bit and reduces wear.

Yes, and the drilling process itself becomes faster and easier when using water.

But constantly adding water, making a hole, is not very convenient.

Then one simple but useful trick, time-tested, will come to the rescue.

We need a piece of regular foam sponge.

It's better if she the height will correspond to the depth of the crownas shown in the photo above.

Using a clerical knife cut off the sponge in the shape of a square and remove its excess parts so that it fits tightly inside the crown.

Center blanks make an incision to facilitate piercing of the jaw with a centering drill.

After the sponge has been placed in the interior of the crown, moisten it with water.

And we start the process of drilling ceramic tiles.

As the crown rotates, water from the sponge flows down the walls of the crown and wets the cut area.

As a result, this simple trick provides gentle drilling for the diamond bit and reduces wear.