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Tried a cheap floor scraper from a hardware store. What a joke.
Last Tuesday I grabbed this $18 floor scraper off the shelf at a big box store in Austin. Figured it would handle the glue-down vinyl I was pulling up in a 400 square foot kitchen. First five minutes the blade bent like tinfoil. Then the handle slipped right off the metal rod. I spent the next hour scraping with a putty knife and cussing. Borrowed my buddy's heavy-duty scraper from his shop the next day. Finished the whole job in 2 hours with that thing. Learned my lesson. Never cheap out on a tool that has to take a beating. Anyone else have a tool fail on them right out of the box?
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spencerm525mo ago
Man, that EXACT same thing happened to me with a cheap floor scraper from Home Depot last year. The blade folded in half on the second tile I tried to pop up and I nearly threw the thing through the window. The handle came loose and twisted around like it was made of plastic instead of metal. It is honestly infuriating that stores even sell these pieces of junk knowing they will fail in five minutes. You are totally right that borrowing a real tool is the only way to go for that kind of work. Never again will I waste money on the cheapest option for something that has to take real force.
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