"Grunff" wrote in message
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David wrote:

The expensive option from Screwfix was marginally better , but IMO not
worth
it.

I found it to be very much worth it.

Yes I believe I bought it on your recommednation, but my experience was that
it was only margianlly better than the standard tile drills. Posibly worth
£10-15. As I don't have any other jobs for it I would probably have had
significantly more success buying 3 or 4 half decent tile drills rather than
this single expensive one.

the best success I had was by switching from tile drill to start for 3-5mm
depth, then tunsten cardbide drill, then tile drill, and then break through
with TC drill. The screfix tile drill would start to struggle once its full
cutting edge was in contact with the tile, but for initial penetrationit was
very pretty effective, but no more so than a tile drill from Bosch,say.



They do throw in a standard drill bit as well, but I suspect this to be
more of a freebie to justify the price

Didn't read the instructions then? The ordinary bit is for drilling the
wall/floor behind the tiles, so you don't use the tile bit to drill
other materials.

Yes it's pretty clear what it is to be used for but I've got plenty of drill
bits which can do that job and I also suspect that most others who buy a
tile drill also have. I think anyone would be rather foolish to try and
drill through brick with a tile drill but then again you never know I
suppose. Perhaps the manuacturers are just trying to reinforce this point
and encourage the user to protect the tile drill as they have also paid out
for this standard drill that is included.

If it reduced the price by a fiver to come without this then it may well be
worth the extra expense, but the only real reason I can see for its
inclusion is to justify the high cost of the set.

cheers

David