Making Holes In Ceramic Pots

Scratch a small starter mark where you want the drainage hole with your nail to help the drill bit to stay in place.

Making holes in ceramic pots.

Find a masonry bit. With your spray bottle in one hand and drill in the other slowly go at it. So here s what i used. How to drill a hole in a ceramic pot.

You may add more holes for large diameter pots such as three holes arranged in a triangular pattern. Keep holes at least 1 inch from the edge of the pot and about 2 inches from the other holes. You can even make your own. We used a masonry bit to drill our hole.

Keep the drill bit and pot surface wet with the spray bottle. At first we thought we were going to use a bit for tile but my dad couldn t find his so we opted for a masonry bit. How to drill drainage holes in ceramic pots planters and more posted on january 16 2013 by dave 64 comments y ou can find a variety of ceramic containers at most thrift stores garage sales and outlet stores. Ceramic pots can be purchased quite cheaply from flea markets or garage sales.

This keeps the bit from overheating and potentially snapping and the pot from cracking. Ceramic pots and vases make for wonderful container gardens but many that you find at flea markets or specialty stores don t have a drainage hole. A ceramic pot can make an ideal storage container for your flowers and also for an indoor herb garden. You ll be surprised by all of the places where you can find great ceramic pots.

However most ceramic flower pots do not have any holes in the bottom of them which are vital for drainage purposes. Experts at adding drainage holes to containers agree that you should mark the hole spot on the planter either with a pencil on clay pots or a nick from a nail or the drill on harder to drill pieces. Set your pot upside down so that you are drilling from the outside in. Be sure that the pot is set somewhere where it is secure and won t move as you start to drill.

On ceramics mark the spot with a ding from a smaller drill bit.