✕DO NOT FORCE THE FIT
- A tool you want to keep. If you'll do this V-notch work more than once and want a spreader that cleans up and lasts, buy the steel — the handled Value Series 04124 or the bare-plate 19110 — not this.
- Floor and wet-area tile. Cementitious thinset on a floor or in a shower wants a square notch (19050/19070); a V spreader of any material is the wrong bed for it.
- Resilient sheet goods. Sheet vinyl and VCT want fine U/square vinyl meters laid paint-thin; a 3/16" V is the wrong profile and too open, and would telegraph through the finished floor.
- The square-notch jobs. Rubber and plastic sheet, or fine even tile beds, are a square-notch job — its plastic sibling 05534, or the steel fine squares — not this V.
- Heavy bodied adhesive that wants a full bead. The wider 1/4" V (04124 in steel) carries more film; a 3/16" V runs leaner.