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The time I used a pizza cutter to fix a vinyl plank edge
I was doing a small laundry room in a 1950s house, and the last plank needed to be trimmed to fit this weird, curved bump-out by the plumbing. My utility knife blade was toast, and the homeowner was breathing down my neck because her washing machine delivery was in an hour. In a panic, I spotted a cheap pizza cutter on her kitchen counter. I figured, what's the worst that could happen? I cleaned it off, put down a straight edge as a guide, and just rolled it hard along the plank. To my shock, it scored the vinyl perfectly and gave me a clean break line. I finished the cut with the knife and it snapped right off. The homeowner just stared and said, 'Well, that's a new one.' Has anyone else ever used a completely wrong tool in a pinch that actually did the job?
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joel5369d ago
Wait, isn't that basically just a rolling blade? I've used those for vinyl before, so maybe it wasn't that far off. Still, using a kitchen tool is pretty clever in a pinch.
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the_diana9d ago
Why do so many good fixes, like @joel536 said, come from using the wrong tool for the job?
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