Drilling Into Carpet

To drill a hole through floorboards requires lifting the carpet right.

Drilling into carpet. Drilling through carpet commonly called an nrp hinge for non removable pin. Use a propane torch to heat the butt end just barely red hot. What i do is cut a slit in the carpet then using needle nose pliers spred the opening and push a short piece of copper tubing through the slit. They re very common in commercial work especially for exterior applications or for areas where you dont want the doors easily taken off of the hinges.

Insert the drill bit into the hole to remove the carpet plug and then reposition the tool in the carpeting hole and drill through the floor. The perfect helper for installing drop cable the 4375 carpet cutter and drill guide bores a clean hole in a carpet and serves as a drill bit guide to preven. I ve also done it without the tube stub just using the needle nose to spred the carpet but it become a three handed task. Having a carpet punch can help in many ways.

When mounting something to the floor and having to mount through carpet a carpet punch is a must. Put a piece of rubber hose on the sharp end. Place it on the carpet and melt on through. The carpet cutter drillbit attachment slices through those melty snaggling manmade fibers like so much mdf and is.

This holds the carpet back. Get a drill bit the size of the hole you want. First if drilling into concrete be sure to use a masonry bit. The carpet fibers could unravel and wrap around the drill bit potentially damaging the carpet and stalling the drill.

Then drill inside the tubing the surface below.