What is diamond drilling?
Almost every private developer or any other person doing repairs in his apartment has faced the problem of punching holes in hard surfaces( concrete, reinforced concrete, as well as brickwork and so on).
Many in this situation use a perforator, becausethis tool has good penetration power and is mobile at the same time. But everyone knows perfectly well that this unit is very noisy and dirty, and the resulting holes have, to put it mildly, a rather unpresentable appearance and require laborious additional processing.
In modern construction, another method has long been used - diamond drilling . This method allows you to accurately, without unnecessary dust, quietly and, most importantly, beautifully drill in the concrete or concrete necessary technological hole.
This drilling of holes in concrete is carried out on various surfaces - vertical and horizontal. It is possible to graduate the drilling angle from 45˚ to 90˚, as well as the diameter of the holes from 20 to 500 mm.
This drilling method is characterized by a high immersion rate in the surface material, it is approximately 5 cm per minute. Drilling holes in concrete is invariably accompanied by the supply of liquid directly to the drill bit, which allows the process to be carried out continuously and without dust.
Characteristics of diamond drilling
This kind of drilling of concrete is widely used in the following works:
- concrete stonework for electrical wiring;
- when drilling holes for water supply pipes, heating pipes, garbage chutes, as well as gas pipelines and other;
- when drilling the foundations of buildings for making connections to the mains of common engineering networks;
- drilling of holes for the installation of ventilation and air conditioning systems;
- for drilling floors for the installation of automatic fire alarm and fire fighting systems;
- when dismantling walls and ceilings;
- when cutting niches for furniture, safes, aquariums and other equipment.
This drilling method has several advantages, which include:
- almost perfectly flat hole shape, which does not require additional labor-intensive processing;
- high accuracy of the resulting holes;
- quite good speed of the work;
- a wide range of applications of this type of drilling, in addition, the possibility of its implementation in a limited space, on inclined surfaces and in inconvenient places;
- no dust in the work, as well as a low level of vibration and noise;
- due to the absence of impact, no other damage in the form of cracks, chips.
How to drill concrete - features of diamond processing
In order to drill a hole in concrete a special drill is used for concrete, another name is a diamond crown. It is such a pipe having a different diameter. On one side of it, cutting elements are soldered, the other side is attached to the motor shaft by means of a special device.
Before drilling concrete with this tool, you need to make sure that the object has access to water. Water is needed to cool the cutting edge of the diamond bit and to wash the slurry in the hole being cut.
In addition, before making a hole in the concrete, this equipment must be installed and secured, therefore, there should be free space for these needs at the drilling site.
Diamond drilling of holes is a fairly technological and modern way of working on concrete. Of course, this type of work requires certain costs, but they pay for themselves by the silence, the accuracy of the cut holes, and the lack of additional processing and exhausting cleaning.