Making Holes In Ceramic Pots

Find a masonry bit.

Making holes in ceramic pots.

A ceramic pot can make an ideal storage container for your flowers and also for an indoor herb garden. You may add more holes for large diameter pots such as three holes arranged in a triangular pattern. 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. Be sure that the pot is set somewhere where it is secure and won t move as you start to drill.

However most ceramic flower pots do not have any holes in the bottom of them which are vital for drainage purposes. Keep holes at least 1 inch from the edge of the pot and about 2 inches from the other holes. Keep the drill bit and pot surface wet with the spray bottle. Center your drill bit so that your hole will be in.

You can even make your own. And here s how to drill a hole in a ceramic pot. On ceramics mark the spot with a ding from a smaller drill bit. With your spray bottle in one hand and drill in the other slowly go at it.

Set your pot upside down so that you are drilling from the outside in. We used a masonry bit to drill our hole. 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. 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.

How to drill a hole in a ceramic pot. So here s what i used. A drainage hole helps excess water leave the soil so that your plant s roots are not sitting in a puddle rotting. This keeps the bit from overheating and potentially snapping and the pot from cracking.

Ceramic pots can be purchased quite cheaply from flea markets or garage sales.