I need to put a new gimmick in the bathroom but have to drill through a tile.

what's the best technique?

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Originally Posted by Pat Vegas

what's the best technique?

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Put some masking tape onto the tile and drill through that and into the tile/wall.

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Originally Posted by SWv2

Put some masking tape onto the tile and drill through that and into the tile/wall.

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Do I go slow or give it a damn good drilling.

Then when I'm finished I might put the thing up on the wall.

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Originally Posted by Pat Vegas

Do I go slow or give it a damn good drilling.

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Eh, are we still on the wall fixing or your mum?

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Originally Posted by SWv2

Eh, are we still on the wall fixing or your mum?

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:hehe: :hehe:

Tungsten tip drill bit. Go through it like butter. Tile shops all sell them, unsurprisingly..

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Originally Posted by Pat Vegas

what's the best technique?

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I always use an old fashioned hand drill after scoring the point to get purchase. Because it goes slowly, it tends to prevent cracking the tile.

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Originally Posted by Pat Vegas

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Is it a thing that sprays perfume into the bathroom? Won of those has been installed at work recently.

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Originally Posted by Pat Vegas

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For the love of the Virgin don't attempt such a thing, f. The walls will come crashing in around your ears.

Get a man in. Or someone who identifies as such.

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Originally Posted by Ash

Is it a thing that sprays perfume into the bathroom? Won of those has been installed at work recently.

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I need to put up a new shower head and holder thing. as the other one has fallen apart. What are they called racks?

I did put in some tremendous LED lights though. They are remote controlled so in the night won doesn't have to put the proper light and have the extractor fan going on for half an hour.

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Originally Posted by Sir C

For the love of the Virgin don't attempt such a thing, f. The walls will come crashing in around your ears.

Get a man in. Or someone who identifies as such.

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In my last place I asked my mate to come around who is a caretaker of a building to put up a shelf for me.

He proceeded to make a hole in the wall about 3 inches wide :-(

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Originally Posted by 7sisters

Tungsten tip drill bit. Go through it like butter. Tile shops all sell them, unsurprisingly..

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:cloud9: and if I can't find one I will throw darts at the wall

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For the love of the Virgin don't attempt such a thing, f. The walls will come crashing in around your ears.

Get a man in. Or someone who identifies as such.

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I had a bloke come round last night to put together 3 items of Ikea flat pack.

2.5 hours it took him, so by my estimates about 7.5 for me, meanwhile I was sat downstairs with a bowl of Shreddies watching the tennis.

€75. Bang on I thought.

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Originally Posted by SWv2

I had a bloke come round last night to put together 3 items of Ikea flat pack.

2.5 hours it took him, so by my estimates about 7.5 for me, meanwhile I was sat downstairs with a bowl of Shreddies watching the tennis.

€75. Bang on I thought.

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I should do that for a living. I can put that stuff together very quickly.
I ended up in there on Sunday :-( though better technique this time I dropped her off then buggered off to costco and them came back.

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Originally Posted by SWv2

I had a bloke come round last night to put together 3 items of Ikea flat pack.

2.5 hours it took him, so by my estimates about 7.5 for me, meanwhile I was sat downstairs with a bowl of Shreddies watching the tennis.

€75. Bang on I thought.

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This is money wisely invested, sw. I salute your decison.