Drilling Into Carpet

Place it on the carpet and melt on through.

Drilling into carpet.

I put a piece of masking tape on the carpet with the hole location marked and burn right through the tape. 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. Put a piece of rubber hose on the sharp end. This holds the carpet back.

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. First if drilling into concrete be sure to use a masonry bit. When mounting something to the floor and having to mount through carpet a carpet punch is a must. Get a drill bit the size of the hole you want.

Use a propane torch to heat the butt end just barely red hot. 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. The carpet fibers could unravel and wrap around the drill bit potentially damaging the carpet and stalling the drill. 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.

To drill a hole through floorboards requires lifting the carpet right. You won t find the 4375 carpet cutter and drill guide via your normal tool buying channels but a few specialty tool places such as bt e utility products sell the 4375 online for about 32. Having a carpet punch can help in many ways. The carpet cutter drillbit attachment slices through those melty snaggling manmade fibers like so much mdf and is.

Heat the bit with a candle or lighter so it cauterizes or melts the carpet fibers as it goes through them.