Drilling Into Carpet

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.

Drilling into carpet. 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. When mounting something to the floor and having to mount through carpet a carpet punch is a must. 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. The carpet fibers could unravel and wrap around the drill bit potentially damaging the carpet and stalling the drill.

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. This holds the carpet back. I put a piece of masking tape on the carpet with the hole location marked and burn right through the tape. Place it on the carpet and melt on through.

Use a propane torch to heat the butt end just barely red hot. Then drill inside the tubing the surface below. The carpet cutter drillbit attachment slices through those melty snaggling manmade fibers like so much mdf and is. Drilling through carpet commonly called an nrp hinge for non removable pin.

First if drilling into concrete be sure to use a masonry bit. Heat the bit with a candle or lighter so it cauterizes or melts the carpet fibers as it goes through them. Having a carpet punch can help in many ways. To drill a hole through floorboards requires lifting the carpet right.

Put a piece of rubber hose on the sharp end.