SKIL 3601-02 Flooring Saw with 36T Contractor Blade, Red and black
Original price was: $199.00.$149.00Current price is: $149.00.
Price: $199.00 - $149.00
(as of Sep 21, 2025 09:27:02 UTC – Details)
With the capabilities of a standard miter and table saws, the compact SKIL flooring saw model 3601 allows you to cut flooring right where you’re installing. Durable, lightweight and portable, DIYers and flooring specialists agree it makes wood floor installation easier and faster.
Cuts solid, engineered and laminate flooring with ease
Makes cross, miter and rip cuts
Lightweight design for transport and use at any project location
Miter detents at 0, 22.5 and 45 degrees
Die-cast aluminum miter and rip fence
Customers say
Customers find this flooring saw to be a decent piece of equipment that works well for laminate flooring and is easy to set up and use. They appreciate its performance, with one customer noting it cuts through luxury vinyl plank flooring like butter, and another mentioning it handles long cuts easily. The saw is particularly effective for ripping and cross-cutting, and customers consider it well worth the price. Regarding dust collection, opinions are mixed – while some say it produces very little dust, others find the dust collection system inadequate.
10 reviews for SKIL 3601-02 Flooring Saw with 36T Contractor Blade, Red and black
Add a review
Related Products
Original price was: $199.00.$149.00Current price is: $149.00.
APRN Jen –
Easy, versatile tool but instructions poorly written
This saw has been so helpful in installing laminate. This is my 4th time doing laminate, And I’ve used a variety of tools or lack of tools to accomplish to each job. If you happen to have a miter saw and table saw in your garage that’s awesome and you don’t need this tool. This is the only tool I’ve found (other than a jigsaw operated with a lot of patience) that will do your ordinary cross cuts and also rip the boards down the length. It switches back-and-forth between cross cuts and long cuts fairly easily but it’s annoying when you have to go back and forth. The fence on the long cuts is not Secured with the screw that you use for the cross cuts so it kind of wiggles. For some reason on about half of the long cuts the blade felt like it was getting stuck, probably was how I was feeding it because I was operating this from About a 5x 8 balcony with the saw on the floor.It comes with a pretty decent carbide tipped blade that actually a cuts through those cross cuts very smoothlyand fast. I’m using this on 8 mm laminate with attached pad. Some other reviews I had read said it chipped laminate. I always cut with the finnished side down because you mark your boards on the bottom anyway. Plus with any saw this seems to cut down on chips.I read a lot of reviews complaining about the dust collection. It does produce a lot of dust especially on the long cuts and it feels like it’s not collecting it in the bag but when I took the bag off to hook the vacuum to it when I had to bring it inside the dust bag was completely fall after only installing 100sf or so. I had to keep sweeping the snow off of my saw while I was using it so that removed most of the dust I guess. It did hook up to my standard Orrick canister vac perfectly The day that the snow was too heavy and I had 3 more cuts to finish up a Room.You are supposed to be able to miter cuts at set angles also. The fence adjusts easily to do this. For my floors I was unable to accomplish that the way it was intended so I had to remove the fence altogether and wing it which is not safe. I have an odd diagonal wall in my living Room and one in my bedroom so this isn’t an issue for most jobs.When I 1st took the saw out of the box it appeared Ready to use but the instructions said you had to do a few things to set it up. None of that was logical, it was infuriating and Turned out to be unnecessary. Thankfully there are a couple of really good, thorough YouTube videos about this saw. I sincerely appreciate whoever made them because I was set my witts end. It’s a remarkably easy saw a to use but the instructions are poorly written.All around great product, Particularly for a company that doesn’t have a good reputation
Samuel Coats –
Flooring must have
I first watched several videos on usage and reviews. It was overall described as pretty good, but said to not perform well on 3/4 inch hardwood flooring. Well 3/4 hardwood is what I install the most and instead of taking multiple tools to the job site to do this job I only took this one. This is a review by a real installer and I was very pleased with the saw and got excellent results. I set the saw up in a corner of the room I was working in and worked without a problem. Great product and I would recommend and I plan to use on the next job I have. As I said this is a real review by a real installer. The only downside is that this product kicks out a lot of dust, the dust bag that comes with it barely catches anything. However I did attach my shop vac and it was a game changer. When installing hardwood floors you need a very clean area and I used the saw attached to the vacuum and had no problem. Everytime I would make about five cuts I’d disconnect the shop vac and clean the area I was cutting at. Very simple and easy to do. I bought extra blades because I heard that it would need it, but I never had to change my blade. Also I would recommend cutting with the underside faced up and at a non hurried paced. Too fast will give a jagged egde, too slow will leave burn marks on the wood. And my last honest recommendation is to use some ear protection. It is on the loud side…. Light weight and easy to carry, easy to keep clean. For notch cutting, such as an L cut into a work piece, I used a scrap piece first to find where the blade starts and the marked my saw with a piece of tape and an arrow. The guard system makes it hard to see where the blade starts to cut. Overall it’s a great product and I hope this review helps.
Paul –
Good product, but can’t get third party cheaper blade due to proprietary size.
It’s a good product and does what it was designed to do. Cuts pretty straight. I would give it 5 stars but you can only replace the blade with the SKIL brand, because it’s a 4 3/8″ diameter blade with a 3/4″ arbor. all of the other third party blade manufacturers make a 3/8″ arbor, so you’re basically stuck with SKIL which cost more.
Cowgirl –
A must for laminate floors.
I bought this saw to do the stairs in my house. As a female, my saw collection was sad. I cant say enough about this handy little saw. First off, it cuts so clean. Not one board was damaged, scratched, or chewed by the blade.It speeds things up and is so easy to use. Yes, its messy but you are using a very fine blade that does a really clean cut. For me, it’s a fair trade off. I sure wish I had it when I did the upstairs rooms as it is very portable and would have save me many trips downstairs. You definitely need a shop vac as you go along but it’s a minor inconvenience.I had no problem cutting angles using it to do cross cuts for stairs by lining up the top and bottom of my pencil line on the cutting line.I was a first time DIYer and my family was impressed!
Wolfram –
A must-have for flooring!
The perfect tool for flooring! I put around 1.600 sq. ft. of engineered bamboo flooring down, super strong 9/16″ thick material and this little saw cuts like a charm. It’s very precise and versatile. I did all the cross cuts, but tried also ripping and it’s working fine. I just did most ripping on the table saw in the basement, but if no table saw is around, this thing will be sufficient. I hooked my fairly strong vacuum up to it and had very little sawdust left underneath the saw. It saved me a lot of running up and down for cutting to avoid too much dust in the house. It is lightweight and easy to move around. I can only recommend this saw!
RenoGuy –
I’m a staircase renovator who does the occasional small flooring add-ons, often upper hallways and a bedroom or two. I don’t do larger flooring projects because it’s not my focus but upper hallways are some of the trickiest flooring spaces to install. The most recent job was 3/4″ x 6 1/2″ engineered HW. I found the skill flooring saw to do an excellent job on both cross cuts and rip cuts, also good for 45° cuts going both directions, all with good dust control. I had also put together a coping saw using a Dewalt barrel jigsaw and a Collins coping attachment for coping the baseboard for the same job. I found this handy for doing various cutouts for doorways and vents. I also expect it to work well for cutting to curved nosing. The cuts are very clean. So the combination of Skil flooring saw and Dewalt/Collins coping saw can do almost everything needed on a flooring install, except maybe bevelling and notching boards to transition to lower flooring. An excellent portable combination!
Jason –
Great little saw for flooring. One downside is they have very specific blade sizes only and they are not common. On top of that they are some of the most expensive blades on the market
Richard Bellefeuille –
Great saw, did the job well, no dust when connected to vacuum.
Mrs J –
Used this for installing stone composite vinyl plank and it had no problems. Made the job easier and was more than adequate.
Csaba Csanyi –
I really love the small saw ! it is quite accurate and fairly quiet! With the vacuum attached to it , virtually dust free . Loving it !