How to Cut Tiles around Pipes and Drill Holes in Bathrooms & Toilets - Tile Mountains

hi I'm Craig Phillips and welcome to my tying trade tips where I'm going to be revealing my top DIY secrets to help you save money and time on this episode I'm going to show you how to cut around a pipe and drill holes in your [Music] tiles quite often when tiing in the bathroom especially in a shower area you may come across a pipe that you need to tile it around it once you've set all your plain tiles into position and they've gone off you need to mark up the exact position of the pipe onto your tile easy way of doing that is placing it in between putting it up to the underside of the pipe allowing a small space or either side where your grout going to be use your marker pen and Mark in the dead center of the tile then reposition the tile to one side of it again leaving an equal Gap underneath and above for the grout and Mark in the center of the [Music] pipe now you've got the marks on the edges of the tile you need to transfer that in the center to find out where that pipe's going to come through so I'll use my Square I'll draw the line now where my lines meet in the middle is where my pipe's going to come through now where my lines meet will be the center of the tile so before I cut a hole using the pipe hole cutter I'm going to drill a pallet hole using a 3mm masonry drill bit although I'm using a masonry drill bit I don't want to have the hammer action setting on the drill I want to have the standard drill motion setting but to stop that sliding across the top of the shami I'll get a small bit of tape place it across my lines and of course redraw the lines back in situe and now I can start drilling swap the drill bit to the hole cutter and there we have the hole to go over the pipe now you've drilled the tile slide it over the pipe double check that it fits exactly into position and you've got an equal Gap all the way around the outside for your grout if you're happy with it you can remove it butter the wall up with your adesive comb it through bed the tile on it and leave it to [Music] set now you may find you want to fix items like a toilet roll holder or a tile rail to your tiled wall it's really easy to do you're going to have to drill a hole in there ready to plug once you found your location put yourself a piece of masking tape on it first mark it up this is there to stop the drill B sliding across the ceramic surface then you can use a spear tile drill B place it onto your mark now the drill settings are very important on the drill make sure you've got on the standard setting to drill and not the hammer action then you're ready to start drilling slowly I hope you've enjoyed watching my tiling trade tips if you want to watch any further tiling tips maybe order some free tile samples or just inquire about the vast range of products that tile Mountain stock please visit the website t.co

Channel: Tile Mountain

Views: 386,198

Keywords: Tiling Tips, Tiling Around Pipes, Bathroom DIY, DIY, How To, Installation Guides, Cutting Tiles, How To Cut Tiles, How To Tile Around Pipes, Craig Phillips, Grout, Adhesive, Home Improvement, Tiling, Tiles, How To Drill Holes In Tiles

Id: 0FIuanAAV4Q

Length: 4min 24sec (264 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 16 2016