Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 15:28:14 -0700
Reply-To: Pat Spragge/RFAN <Pat.Spragge@RFAN.COM>
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From: Pat Spragge/RFAN <Pat.Spragge@RFAN.COM>
Subject: Re: Sound deading material...and sources of same...early Friday
post, LVC...
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Thx Don...I agree with you. Try and search out the locally owned stores,
when possible.
Patrick Spragge
From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM,
Date: 08/06/2015 03:20 PM
Subject: Sound deading material...and sources of same...early
Friday post, LVC...
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I know it isn't Friday quite yet, but I'm going off this weekend with no
Net contact so I thought I'd send this along a little early...
When everyone mentions Home Depot as a (the only?) good source for stuff
we use in our Vanagons (there, a little van content) be aware that Home
Depot is no longer always "the" automatic bargain place to source
products...rather the opposite is what I have been finding.
In the past, they used to sell building materials, tools, hardware, etc
etc.... for less than most other places. Sometimes. it was worthwhile to
put up with slightly less quality and somewhat limited supply/selection
because of the lower prices they were selling stuff for.....
This summer I've been working for a client who's a real "Home Depot"
Guy...and he's been quick to go to the HD about 14 miles away, getting
hardware and building materials for projects we've been doing...but we
also have a couple of local building supplys in our close town, some
lumber
yards and hardware stores that Home Depot has not succeed in putting out
of
business...So he sometimes has swung by there, too, after not finding the
proper materials available at HD...and not only is the quality and
selection better, the materials were significantly less expensive..We both
were surprised...consistently better quality at significantly less money..
Probably not a big deal, price-wise, on something like stick-on sound
deadening materials, though I frequently find products like that from Home
Depot have been miss-stored, gotten wet, bent or damaged in shipping, or
are in some other way not 100% usable...causing a trip to return the crap
or a second trip to another source...not convenient...
They've succeeded in becoming almost a household word...Everyone
automatically goes..."....go to Home Depot, they got it.... " Well,
yes,
they probably do have "it"...but it may cost more now, there, than it does
in other places and may often be of inferior quality, too. Don't just
automatically think stuff is cheapest there anymore because it's often
not...
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