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Had a customer insist on using leftover tile adhesive for a vinyl plank job
They had a half-bucket of thinset from a bathroom reno and didn't want to buy new glue. I warned them it wouldn't work, but they were adamant. Out of pure curiosity, I mixed a tiny bit with some water to make it way thinner than normal, almost like a slurry. To my shock, it actually grabbed the planks on that concrete subfloor in their sunroom and held. I still made them buy the right adhesive for the rest of the house. Has anyone else ever been forced to try something this dumb that somehow, against all odds, didn't fail immediately?
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troysmith12d ago
That's wild it actually held! @the_anthony is right, the universe just winks at some of these crazy ideas. I once ran out of wood putty and used a mix of sawdust from the job and white school glue to fill a hole in a baseboard. The homeowner painted over it and it's still there, totally solid, five years later. You just shake your head when it works.
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the_anthony13d ago
Honestly, my whole career is a series of those "this should not work" experiments. I once used a stack of old magazines as a temporary shim for a wobbly cabinet because the client's kid had hidden my level. It held for three years until they moved. The universe just lets some dumb ideas slide sometimes.
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