/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.1720718]

Home Depot for me

[Anonymous No.1720740]

MENARDS IS SHIT

[Anonymous No.1720750]

>>1720718
HD for most things, including anything tool related. Big Blue for hobby wood and lumber, all the way. WAY better selection in my area.

[Anonymous No.1720754]

>>1720740
Menards is the shit**

[Anonymous No.1720755]

>>1720754
Menards is the shittier store**

[Anonymous No.1720758]

>>1720718
Lowes has better finished goods. Home Depot for everything else. Although comparing my local stores Lowes has a much better electrical section. More goods and better organized, surprisingly. >>1720740

[Anonymous No.1720760]

>>1720718
>friends with owner of local lumber/supply yard
>quotes me a big project at cost
>tells me to take it to Home Depot
>their policy is to beat a quote by 10%
>they take a loss to get my business

[Anonymous No.1720799]

I usually go to Lowe's first, but only because it's more convenient. Home Depot has better/more options for raw materials though.

[Anonymous No.1720803]

>>1720718
Lowes because eBay has some bomb ass coupons for them

[Anonymous No.1720805]

All i can think about is the beautiful smell of both of those stores

[Anonymous No.1720809]

>>1720718
I like Home Depot's scrap wood pile that I can occasionally get free chunks from

[Anonymous No.1720830]

Lowes has more MILFs

[Anonymous No.1720836]

>>1720830
My HD has cuter girls working the register and more milf customers, the girls at the lowes across the street could work at cracker barrel theyre so homely

[Anonymous No.1720849]

Until the whole corporate layoff with no notice thing, I would have said Lowe's for everything because of the employee discount, but now it's either depending on what I need.

[Anonymous No.1720851]

>>1720760
way to fuck over your friend & his business

[Anonymous No.1720943]

>>1720851
What? He never said Home Depot was his friend.

[Anonymous No.1720944]

Home Depot because Kathy is a really good cashier. She’s earned just about every badge but she keeps her 20 years of service patch up front. She is the reason i exclusively purchase from HD

[THe_KvD !ZNBx60Gj/k No.1720947]

>>1720718
Lowe’s is for my wife to browse new kitchen cabinets.

[Anonymous No.1720948]

ITT: retards who pay retail prices.

[Anonymous No.1720959]

>>1720948
You don’t get any special deals loser.

[Anonymous No.1720961]

>>1720948
>t. harbor freight enthusiast

[Anonymous No.1720962]

>>1720959
I buy materials from the broker/wholesaler/manufacturer/commercial supply and have a business license. My material costs are on average 25%-50% lower than big box depending on the item.

[Anonymous No.1720964]

>>1720718
I shop both. Why ignore a deal if it is at a store you dont have loyalty to?

[Anonymous No.1720968]

>>1720962
No you don’t.

[Anonymous No.1720977]

>>1720968
Come again?

[Anonymous No.1720988]

>>1720977
Ayyyy fellow Florida business owner. What gun do you carry?

[Anonymous No.1720989]

Home Depot because they carry the best 18v tool line on the market. Kobalt simply can’t compete

[Anonymous No.1720991]

>>1720988
HK VP40

[Anonymous No.1720995]

>>1720977
I can use a search engine as well you larping motherfucker.

[Anonymous No.1721001]

>>1720995
Stay mad kid.

[Anonymous No.1721004]

>>1720991
Bersa Thunder 380. But don’t let that be an indication of how my business is doing. I just like the little gun and have had it forever

[Anonymous No.1721012]

>>1720851
Kek my friend told me to take it to Home Depot so I can get it cheaper. He has no shortage of business.

[Anonymous No.1721028]

>>1721012
You the guy who’s dad works at Nintendo?

[Anonymous No.1721031]

>>1720948
T. Retard who comes into Lowe’s and wants discounts on everything

[Anonymous No.1721037]

>>1720809
>Home Depot's scrap wood pile
Have you ever seen scrap pieces of sonotube there?

[Anonymous No.1721043]

Lowes for me. I can't go back to the local HD since I quit and don't want to see those dumb shits again and going to another town is usually not worth the trouble.

[Anonymous No.1721095]

>>1720718
Lowe’s employee of two years here. Home Depot is almost always higher quality. The recent layoffs have also completely fucked most store over on scheduling and customer interaction since there’s less people on the floor. Shit sucks and our woods is sourced from the most crooked ass trees in the bayous of Mississippi, that’s what our customers think anyway. Fuck this place.

[Anonymous No.1721099]

>>1721095
How are you liking your contracted cleaning service that doesn't clean employee areas, refuses to use the zamboni, and refuses to empty trash cans?

Or your assembly service that doesn't clean up anything and doesn't know any english?

[Anonymous No.1721141]

>>1720718
Hardware Sales.
I don't shop where they sell flowers. Particularly when they set up the displays so ding-bat ladies wander into the loading dock traffic and get squashed by trucks.

[Anonymous No.1721144]

>>1720718
Off to >>biz /smg/ with your cardboard quality vanities and insane prices. Fucking corporate bullshit, man.

[Anonymous No.1721146]

>>1721141
Dude, they completely gutted our Lowe's hardware section. The key station is a kiosk and the counter with the old man got converted to shelving, and they took an aisle and gave it to home goods.

[Anonymous No.1721204]

>>1721004
My brother gave it to me when he got divorced.

[Anonymous No.1721359]

Was at HD earlier. The old guys were clogging up the new self checkout stations and the cashiers that weren’t helping unfuck that situation couldn’t be bothered fast enough to open an actual cashier register. One said “oh I’m not open teehee” so what are you doing then? Also noticed there’s a new group that’s doing restocking and merchandise moving around the store, during daytime, unlike overnight. Taking forever with the forklift when you need something from the isle that’s closed off.

[Anonymous No.1721410]

>>1721037
Nope, all wood cutoffs, no sonotube

[Anonymous No.1721417]

>go to home depot to buy basic bitch sheet of 3/8" ply
>needed it cut to be able to take it home with my "hot" hatch
>wanted the 8' vertical piece cut at 56" for a specific use
>ask the Home Depot wagie if he can rip the sheet, he sez yes, asks me at what length
>tell him "56 inches"
>he legitimately cant find 56" on a wideblade tape
>tell him "just do 4 and a half feet bro"
>"oh haha ok"
Is it because I'm a sparky by trade and so used to working with measurements in inches rather than feet or was he retarded?

Otherwise I overwhelmingly prefer HD to lowes, their power tool + hand tool selection is great. Can only get Lenox sawblades/holesaws at Lowes in my area though

[Anonymous No.1721418]

>>1721095
Explains why I had to wait almost 30 minutes to get plexiglass cut last month to save a little time

[Anonymous No.1721423]

>>1721359
I like the new self checkouts with the scanners and no scales, but whoever decided that people can't put in codes for hardware is a fucking retard. I hate having to flag someone down to type in three letters when I'm buying a bolt. Fucking grocery store trusts me to tell the machine I'm buying a spaghetti squash instead of something half the price per pound, why can't HD?

[Anonymous No.1721429]

>>1720989
>ryobi
>best 18v

Is this a joke or did I miss something

[Anonymous No.1721455]

>>1721417
not HD or Lowes, but at Autozone, I asked the girl for 3 feet of vacuum hose and she gave me 3 1' pieces. I said I needed it in one piece so she asked me to come back to the aisle with the tape measure sticker mounted on the shelf and show her where I wanted it cut.

[Anonymous No.1721465]

>>1721417
>Is it because I'm a sparky by trade and so used to working with measurements in inches rather than feet or was he retarded?
Probably a bit of both. I worked at Home Depot for a little bit and they will hire people with absolutely zero experience with anything resembling their department, or did anyways. So a lot of those kids you're dealing with have probably never used a tape measure before.

[Anonymous No.1721479]

>>1720718
Home Depot

[Sage !n/ZnkB9jUw No.1721482]

>>1721429
All the good tools are 20V like DeWalt and Hercules, so Ryobi is the best of the rest- the best of the 18V tools.

[Anonymous No.1721489]

>>1721482
>rybbed for your pleasure
uhhhh

[Anonymous No.1721492]

>>1720718
For me only the most hipster store will do.

[Anonymous No.1721949]

>>1721359
Was that new group in orange shirts? Because when I was on MET we'd get in people's way constantly.
Want in the aisle? Too bad, I've got 20 heavy-ass quarter pallets to drop one at a time.

[Anonymous No.1721958]

Power Tools

HD: Milwaukee, DeWalt, Makita, Ridgid, Ryobi
Lowes: DeWalt, Bosch, Hitachi, Kobalt, Craftsman

Electrical
HD: Klein, Lutron
Lowes: Southwire, LeGrand

Measurement
HD: Empire, Husky
Lowes: Lufkin, Komelon, Swanson


Overall, I HD has better brands. I shop at both because I find that Lowes has better quality selection of items I can't find at HD. If Lowes could carry Knipex again, and have another Power Tool brand like Makita and Lutron, that would really even up the game.

[Anonymous No.1722068]

Ryobi is king so Home Depot for sure

[Anonymous No.1722074]

>>1720718
fuck you both. support your local lumberyards, better selection of wood and trim, and really not much more expensive. HomeCheapos doors are really the only thing they have cheaper than normal

[Anonymous No.1722079]

>>1722074
They also have a tool for practically any job that your doing.

[Anonymous No.1722081]

>>1722074
Some places don't have a local lumber yard. 84 lumber is a joke too.

[Anonymous No.1722114]

>>1722074
>>1722081
What about McCoys building supply? Thats the only lumber place I can think of around here besides 84

[Anonymous No.1722479]

Having worked at both, go to Home Depot if you know what you are doing and don’t need help. Go to Lowe’s if you don’t know jack.

[Anonymous No.1722499]

>>1722479
Having been to both stores, I disagree with your statement

[Anonymous No.1722503]

>>1720718
Menards for your typical working man
Lowes for your suburbanite driving an SUV who overpays for everything
Home Depot if you are an illegal immigrant.

[Anonymous No.1722547]

I’ve stopped going to HD, their quality has dropped in the last 2 years. Lowe’s for the vet discount or Ace if I need something of high quality or need advice on something. Used to always go to HD, but not anymore.

[Anonymous No.1722603]

>>1720718
I go to one of two local hardware stores depending on what I need. If I need wood I go to a lumberyard that every one with a brain goes to because they are cheap as fuck and have everything. All contractors go there if they can. They even supply some of the local big box stores.

[Anonymous No.1722605]

/diy/ unironically passes on deals like this: https://www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-Multi-Material-Drill-and-Drive-Kit-60-Piece-A98601G/206264361

[Anonymous No.1722609]

>>1721482
>Hercules

[Anonymous No.1722621]

>>1721482
The lithium ion cells that power all modern cordless tools have a higher no-load voltage than they do when being used. Five of them in series have either 20V or 18V depending on how they're measured. Different brands use 18 or 20V to refer to the same operational voltage. DeWalt, for example, uses the 20V label in part to distinguish those tools from the older "18V" nickel-cadmium-based batteries. Three lithium ion cells in series supply either 12V or 10.8V depending on the methodology as above, but most everyone calls them "12V" batteries and tools.

[Anonymous No.1722678]

>>1722605
Yes because i already have bits that aren't garbage

[Anonymous No.1722685]

>>1720718
They're both shit so why should I care?

[Anonymous No.1722688]

>>1721037
Go to a carpet place. They'll give you the rolls carpet comes in on.

[Anonymous No.1723762]

Lowe's only because they give a veteran discount and Home Depot doesn't

[Anonymous No.1723775]

>>1721099
>Or your assembly service that doesn't clean up anything and doesn't know any english?
They fear the forklift. You must impose your dominance on them.

[Anonymous No.1723782]

>>1723762
Welfare queens gonna welfare queen

[Anonymous No.1723795]

>>1722605
>a bunch of cheap garbage
>"deal"

[Humble croatian red aerated te(...) No.1723797]

>>1723762
Home depot DOES give a 10% discount. Its actually easier than Lowes. I have to put in my phone number and register with Lowes, HD I just show my ID card

[Anonymous No.1723805]

>>1720944
go home kathy you are drunk

[Anonymous No.1723807]

My local hardware store is an Ace and it has the absolute best fastener selection I've ever seen in a store, about a 40 foot long aisle with the little gray plastic drawers on both sides, I fucking love that place.

[Anonymous No.1723815]

>>1722074
just bought some 1x12 poplar from lumber yard near me. 4.35/foot there compared to homecreapos 5.55/foot. Plus they had more in stock, and it was better quality

[Anonymous No.1723842]

>>1723797
when i worked at Home Depot i didnt even ask, it takes two clicks on the register to apply the military discount and its not my responsibility to determine if you are a veteran are not.

[Anonymous No.1723843]

>>1721482
"20V Max" tools are marketing Jewry, there is no difference between 18v and 20v tools, they use the same bettery cells on the inside and all run at 18v, some just say 20v for smoothbrains that see 20v and think its a bigger number than 18. 20v is the max starting output under no load, they get away with lying in the US but in Europe Dewalt tools are sold as "18v Max".

[Anonymous No.1723850]

They both sell trash. I go to local lumber yards that supply the cabinetry people here for wood. Theres a rock place (whatever they're called) that sells good tiles and large boulders. Tools I get from reputable dealers and they don't say made in the third world on them. Plumbing supply stores have better piping in much better material selections and sizes. ABout the only think i go to either of those shitbox stores is to get consumables like varnish removed, and throw away drill bits. I did find a made in japan saw there once. I was surprised.

[Anonymous No.1723857]

>>1720830
agreed

[Anonymous No.1723869]

The is the real king. Bow before him you peasants

[Anonymous No.1723876]

>>1723762
Suck start a handgun so we can get our 22 for today

[Anonymous No.1723917]

>>1723876
Nice edge, kid. Now run along back to your containment board.

[Anonymous No.1723937]

>>1723762
>Home Depot doesn't
They do.
I carry a VA medical card.
Sometimes HD doesn't even look at it.

[Anonymous No.1724110]

>>1721417
4.5 feet is 54 inches.

[Anonymous No.1724140]

>>1720760

protip most margins are 20% at the least, more like 50% markup.

[Anonymous No.1724845]

Friendly reminder you can buy 10% coupons off Ebay for Lowe's for like a dollar.

[Anonymous No.1726460]

Hartville Hardware

[Anonymous No.1726473]

>>1724845
There are sites to randomly generate them for free
And they screw over normal people trying to use real coupons they received from lowes.

[Anonymous No.1726609]

[Anonymous No.1726612]

[Anonymous No.1726617]

>>1726612
>>1726609
the meme is not far off...

[Anonymous No.1726622]

Lowes kobalt tools all have serial numbers which make it easier to get replacements, other than that if you have a harbor freight near you its almost always worth going there first, home depot really doesn't offer much compared to the other 2

[Anonymous No.1726649]

>>1720760
Imagine not giving your friend business because you're a kike faggot

[Anonymous No.1726653]

[Anonymous No.1726675]

>>1726649

[Anonymous No.1726864]

>>1720718
We use obi much better

[Anonymous No.1727072]

>>1721429
ryobi>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>the best of harbor freight so yeah, its the best of the rest.

[Anonymous No.1727084]

>>1720718
Doesn't make any difference. I go to which ever is closest to the job I'm currently working on.

[Anonymous No.1727131]

>>1720995
Wether he’s larping or not I can vouch that’s exactly how it works.

[Anonymous No.1727138]

>>1720718
Blue shit is exactly the same as orange shit.

[Anonymous No.1727148]

>>1720718
>Home Depot for me
My son-in-law (a U.S. Marshall, and true-believer Trumptard) tells me he prefers Lowe's because Home Depot has "too many Mexicans".

[Anonymous No.1727225]

>>1727148
Kys faggot, your son in law is wrong in his choice of big box store but beaners suck

[Anonymous No.1727665]

I used to work at the Taylor home depot in Michigan by i75. Home depot is a fucking cult, they sucked Bob nardeli's (don't remember the spelling) dick until he left the company. They had a God damn picture of him in the break room like he's always watching. It was just a fucked up time, supervisors fucking workers... Was basically Walmart.

[Anonymous No.1727671]

Home Depot has a Renovation discount program called Rapid Pass. they also have the option of sending an order to a bid room for further discounts. the 2 may add up to be worth the effort at the pro desk.

[Anonymous No.1727694]

>>1720995
BTFO

[Anonymous No.1727731]

>>1724140
HD has economy of scale to fulfill the quote cheaper than anon's friend so even if they underbid by 10% they probably broke even with the quote but expect anon to have extra expense that will be spent at HD, ultimately making them a profit.

[Anonymous No.1727736]

>>1723843
Interesting. It always struck me as weird that big brands like Makita and Milwaukee would have a comparably less powerful tool compared to DeWalt. Guess they are just "worse" at marketing or don't want to bother having different packaging in different countries.

[Anonymous No.1727737]

>>1722479
Completely disagree. Home Depot employees actually know what is going on. Lowes only employs senile old farts who were too dumb to plan their retirement so have to work part-time when they are 75.

[Anonymous No.1727744]

tractor supply you dumb city boys

[Anonymous No.1727747]

>>1727744
Amen. Just bought two 8'x8' tarps for the pigeon coup and a big bag of corn

[Anonymous No.1727752]

Both Suck.

Lowes you can never find an employee at so as long as its something you can get yourself then they are fine otherwise forced to go to HD.

There is also times when ACE is right by my house and closer especially if its something small and if I pay 30 cents more its so much more convenient

Harbor freight for cheap one time use tools

no menards, meijer, etc. around here sadly

[Anonymous No.1727754]

>>1727744
over priced as fuck

[Anonymous No.1727757]

I get my tools at blue box and sears, and everything else at orange box

[Anonymous No.1727761]

>>1727754
>not writing it off as a farming expense
you dumb city boys

[Anonymous No.1727765]

>>1727757
Actually this is a lie, I just refuse to buy Husky brand tools for anything to serious. Harbor Freight tools have been more reliable twords me then Husky

[Anonymous No.1727781]

>>1727761

i meant for tools

closest TSC is like 25 miles away one way not worth it after milage/gas/time on non tools

[Anonymous No.1727783]

>>1727765
have some old USA Husky lying around those are fine, otherwise Husky & Kobalt is shit tier. I am replacing my taiwan shit Stnaley with USA made blackhawk, proto, SK, mac, vintage craftsman, etc that I find at yard sales

[Anonymous No.1728031]

>>1727752
I use harbor freight tools almost religiously and none of them have broken yet

[Anonymous No.1728039]

>>1720718
LOWES has better quality stuff, but HOME DEPOT is closer to my house. I'm a lazy American, so it's Home Depot for me

[Anonymous No.1728070]

>>1720718
Home Depot is beaner tier, Lowes is aryan tier

[Anonymous No.1728097]

>>1720718
I have both a lowes and a home depot adjacent to each other, a 5 minute walk from the house. Life is good.

[Anonymous No.1728099]

>>1721418
Just go to Ace. I work next door to one and they have so many employees just standing around all the time. I never see the glass cutter get used.

[Anonymous No.1728106]

>>1727757
I didn't know sears still existed.

[Anonymous No.1728237]

>>1727148
I worked at home depot for about 2 years and Mexicans are the least needy people, aswell as the most patient should they need anything that may take time.

Your son in laws a nigger

[Anonymous No.1728397]

>>1720755
No.

[Anonymous No.1728469]

>>1720718
RIP