I originally bought these as kitchen shears and they work great for kitchen use. Even cutting chicken bones! Then we laid vinyl floor tiles and needed something to trim them. Since these weren't expensive I thought what the heck, let's try them. We ended up using them to complete the whole flooring job, and they even cleaned up well and retained enough sharpness to return to kitchen use. I've since bought my hubs a pair for his toolbox and second kitchen pair to have on hand. Can't beat them for the price!