How To Grind Ceramic Sink

Set a water filled 1 gallon milk container next to or above the hole.

How to grind ceramic sink. Start out very slowly with the grinder set on a medium speed until you can get a feel of how fast the tile will grind. Place a plastic bucket under the hole you need to enlarge. Porcelain sinks seem to have a paradox about them. One person suggested to get a dremel and cut away the rim from the retaining nut without removing the sink less work someone else suggested to take the sink out which means cut the sealant and caulk remove the wood holding the sink remove the piping and cut it with a tile cutter.

Ceramic is a very hard material and you need special tools to grind it properly. A ceramic grinder uses a metal aluminum oxide or similar grinding wheel this is a wheel that has sharp metal flakes of aluminum oxide glued to the surface much like sandpaper. Step 4 gently apply pressure with the grinding disc to the tile surface. It will grind down a ceramic tile or object with precision.

Install a porcelain tile grinding disc on an angle grinder. The good news is that drilling the initial hole is the most difficult and riskiest part of drilling into a porcelain sink. If the porcelain is coating cast fe and the sink bottom is flat you might consider a mag drill. Just for my info how much material has to be removed.

Personally i would try and get an old cheap sink of same the construction to give a few trials on. This could really change the approach. They re durable and hardy but they crack easily at the first sign of a drill.