Drilling into tiles

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And lastly before my trip to screwfix tomorrow, it'll be fixed to a tiled plasterboard wall, will something like an appropriately sized cavity wall anchor from the likes of Fischer do the job?

http://www.screwfix.com/p/fischer-hm-plasterboard-anchors-m4-x-46mm-pack-of-20/38777

Or as its tile over the plasterboard do I need something else as stuff like the above looks like it has little lugs that stick into the board to stop the, turning, but as it'll be in tile first not sure that'll be of any use.

(See told you I was an idiot with this sort of stuff ;) )

Thanks again for all the advice, has really helped!
 
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I've drilled hundreds of holes in tiles. Just use a decent masonry bit. Go slow and dont use hammer.

The only real issue with cracking the tile is IF you use hammer. Or the muppet who fixed the tiles spot fixed them
 
Just to bump/close this one I finally got round to doing this today ;) Got delayed as wife changed her mind on the cabinet.

Bought those Bosch drill bits earlier in the week (ones with the blue bits on) and it was all fine.

Cabinet went up and is all true on the spirit levels, although looks a tiny bit squiffy as don't think the tiles/wall are fully straight/lined up ;)

So thanks for the hints and tips!
 
Ev0 said:
And lastly before my trip to screwfix tomorrow, it'll be fixed to a tiled plasterboard wall, will something like an appropriately sized cavity wall anchor from the likes of Fischer do the job?

http://www.screwfix.com/p/fischer-hm-plasterboard-anchors-m4-x-46mm-pack-of-20/38777

Or as its tile over the plasterboard do I need something else as stuff like the above looks like it has little lugs that stick into the board to stop the, turning, but as it'll be in tile first not sure that'll be of any use.
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Those bolts are for direct plasterboard.. they use barbs to dig into the surface of the board to prevent the bolt rotating as the screw then open it. So you'll need to prevent the thing rotating or the barbs that dig into the plaster board will rotate and act as a coring drill bit.

Not sure if you can use them on tiles with the barbs - perhaps you can flatten them.
 
Ev0 said:
Just to bump/close this one I finally got round to doing this today ;) Got delayed as wife changed her mind on the cabinet.

Bought those Bosch drill bits earlier in the week (ones with the blue bits on) and it was all fine.

Cabinet went up and is all true on the spirit levels, although looks a tiny bit squiffy as don't think the tiles/wall are fully straight/lined up ;)

So thanks for the hints and tips!
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A picture paints a thousand words! ;)
 
Drilling tiles is easy, people make such a big bloody fuss about it. All you need is standard masonry bits and a drill with a variable speed trigger (all but the cheapest will have this).

Start with a small masonry bit, go slow, medium pressure. You'll feel it bite into the tile and start boring through, go through with this first.

Then you've got a pilot hole you can just go up to the size you want, slow until you've cut away the front face then just drill through as usual.

Oh, and no hammer action.
 
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