Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 22:15:54 +0000
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Sound deading material...and sources of same...early Friday
post, LVC...
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I don't think of it as cheap at all. But as you mentioned they have run the
other resources out of business and are often the only place to turn to for
many building materials. Plus they are ubiquitous.
Jim
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 5:13 PM Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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