Punched our own holes

We started the day going to the hardware store to buy the wrench we needed to use the Ikea cutter. After looking at the myriad of options for ratcheting wrenches, we finally settled on a set with metric measurements, thinking that Ikea stuff is usually in metric. We got home, and none of the heads worked. One was too small and the next up was too big. We were about to go back to the store to exchange it, and we found the spark plug head worked perfectly. We were able to used the wrench on the Ikea cutter and cut our own holes in the sink. They look great - there is no warping of the surface and the hole has nice clean edges. Why can't a licensed plumber do this? It wasn't even that hard.

I took great joy in telling the stainless steel guy and the plumber that I was able to make the holes with an $8 part. While it was a bit of a trial to get it done, we saved $92 and got to tell the plumber about it.