Dropped $200 on a fancy power trowel that sat in my truck for a year before I sold it at a loss

Bought one of those lightweight models thinking it'd save my knees on big floors, but it never could keep up with the heavy stuff and just vibrated my arms numb. Anybody else buy a tool that looked good on paper but just didn't fit the way you actually work?

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finleythomas15d ago

Trowels need weight to do their job, those lightweight ones just dance around.

ryanh7715d ago

Hang on, "dance around"? That's a wild way to put it. I've been tiling for over a decade and I thought I'd heard every excuse for a bad finish. But seriously, a lightweight trowel isn't dancing, it's just not doing the work. The whole point is the weight sinks the notches into the thinset, and if you don't have that heft, you're basically just scraping the surface. You're not wrong, I've seen guys try to use those featherlight plastic ones and the thinset just sits there like a puddle.

bettym8915d ago

I mean, my trowel's so light it's basically doing a little dance while my thinset just watches.