ROBERTS 10-35 Laminate and Vinyl 8" Plank Cutter, Only for use with laminate flooring up to 8” wide and 10 mm thick and vinyl planks up to 8” wide and 4 mm thick

This laminate cutter works exactly as described. I bought it due to an independent demonstration/recommendation from a contractor I follow on Youtube, Jeff Thorman (?) from Home Renovision DIY.Yes, it says "cutter", but it doesn't cut traditionally, like a sharp blade would do. It crushes through the board at the point you need to make your "cut". It will not be pristine. Do not sharpen it. It is not a paper cutter. It does take some force. My laminate was in the upper-middle in terms of thickness, but using this was fairly easy as long as I was standing and had leverage. If I were on the floor, which after laying a lot of laminate, you want to do, because it can be exhausting, it was much more difficult. Leverage is the key. And a little weight. My petite wife was able to cut a few, but it was with effort and asked I do the remainder of the project. However, if you are petite, get yourself a 12" pipe or longer, with a large enough diameter to fit the Roberts handle and it will be quite simple to operate, I am sure.The "BLADE" - It is NOT supposed to be a sharp blade. Some commenters say they sharpened it. Doesn't make sense, it is not needed and probably will ruin it if not right away, certainly long term. You don't need pristine cuts when doing laminate floating floors. The idea is that the "rough cut" ends will be covered by molding and/or quarter round.TIME SAVER - This cutter saves a ton of time over using a saw. Laminate throws off tons of dust, so you'd want the saw outside, which has multiple negatives. One, you keep going in and out of the house to make a cut. Two, you should wear a mask, which you'll likely pull on and off going in and out of the house. Three, weather could be a problem. Four, the mess. Easier to clean up chunks than laminate saw dust everywhere. This cutter, you leave right in the room and make your cuts. Makes the job quicker, simpler and less of a hassle.VINYL PLANK - Some wonder if it will cut vinyl. The Youtuber I mentioned earlier did cut vinyl plank with it and gave it a thumbs up for that, but, I wouldn't bother. I had two styles of laminate that I put down in another part of the house...one was Luxury Vinyl Plank (LVP) which was semi rigid (And by far the easiest to lay down). The other was Engineered Vinyl Plank (EVP) and had solid, rigid core. Both were easily cut by the score and snap method with a utility knife. No need for the Roberts cutter, when a utility knife is even easier, particularly if your speed square is large enough to cover the plank, which most would be.No need to buy the $300 cutters if you're only remodeling your home and/or maybe loaning it out to a friend, relative or two. This gets the job done at a very inexpensive price. Completely worth it.

I used this laminate cutter to install 8mm laminate in an 1000sqft condo. This is what you need to know:It will not cut nice clean edges but its not supposed to. All your cut edges will be at the walls, where you need to leave space for expansion and where your quarter round molding or regular base board is used to cover up the gap. So you never see the cut edges.You wont be able to cut angles with it unless your laminate is in thin strips. So you'll need a chop saw or jig saw for those pieces. Luckily the majority of living spaces are usually rectangular.The greatest thing I found using this cutter was how much less noise and mess you make than using a chop saw. I was able to install floor after I came home from work without worrying about bothering the neighbors with the saw. Made my install go a lot faster since I had more hours in the evening to work.On 8mm laminate I didn't have a problem cutting it, yes its not as easy as using a chop saw but you avoid clouds of dust in your house and angry neighbors so it's well worth the little extra exercise. I've seen multiple professional installers use this type of cutter especially in condos where its easier to disturb neighbors and you don't have easy access to the chop saw if its outside.

I bought this to put in LVP in my master bathroom. I originally tried cutting them with a razor blade, but it wasn’t nearly enough to cut through the LVP, so I ordered this device. The cutter technically did cut through the LVP with somewhat of an effort, but mine was assembled crooked so it did not cut straight, which was more than frustrating and made me waste more planks than I wanted. Planks are pricey so I wasn’t happy to waste.

I did a DIY renovation on my Master Bathroom/WC this fall that included new vinyl plank flooring, but I was on a tight budget and wanted to keep equipment costs to a cautious minimum. On that matter, alone, this ROBERTS 13058 10-35 Laminate and Vinyl Plank Cutter fit the bill exactly. At this price point, the construction is pretty good, and the cutter is nice and sturdy.I wasn't always happy with the cuts, though. The blade has two cutting edges: the left side incises, and the right side of the blade pushes and snaps the cut edge of the board. However, on vinyl planks, that process creates an unusably damaged bend on the remainder of the plank, so that, if for any reason you wanted to salvage the rest of the plank to cut an odd length, you'd have to sacrifice that damaged portion of it.In fact, the same motion that "smushes" the plank also pulls the plank out away from the board stopper during the cut, so you sometimes end up with a not-so-straight cut. Here, again, the problem is that this is a laminate cutter, not so much a vinyl plank cutter: the board stopper adequately keeps a rigid laminate board in place, but, because vinyl planks bend and droop, that board stopper is just way, way too tiny to keep things in place, even if you put something under the length of the plank to keep it flat.ROBERTS is completely transparent about how the blade works through blunt pressure, so it's not like its product description has falsely advertised. It is unequivocally named by Roberts a "Laminate and VINYL Plank Cutter," but, in reality, its design is best suited for laminate only.

Bought this laminate cutter to use in installing new flooring in several rooms. Definitely a time-saver versus cutting with power saw and could be used right there in installation room without generating tons of dust like a saw. The cutting blade is very blunt and it takes a fair amount of pressure (read stand up and bear down on handle) to cut through. The results though are very clean straight edge cuts that work well for installations.