wrath
Club Member
I'd keep the property also, for sure!
So I literally drive past Chelsea Lumber to go to Menards and Lowes to buy my lumber. It's not that I don't want to buy "local" but it's just that their prices are always 10%+ higher and the materials aren't any better quality. I spent 35 minutes digging through a pile of #2 better 2x6x10 while my assigned "helper" fellated his phone this past fall. Literally paying 50% more for garbage grade wood. Every piece had wane, loose knots, or splits that would even make a gymnast blush. Since they don't help you load, but merely guide you to the piles of shit (of which the knobs hardly ever know where shit is) and watch you dig through it.
I go there about once per year, and I often do call for quotes. This summer I was doing a major project (rebuilding my garage after a storm knocked a giant tree on it) and the only thing I ended up buying there was some shitty 2x6s and 3 adjustable steel posts. They were $600 higher on what it cost to roof my garage (shingles, synthetic felt, cap, ice guard, starter strips). Last time I roofed my garage in 2017 they were only 10% high ($200 or so) so I bought it from them. By the end of 2018 they weren't competitive on anything and I largely would only go there if I needed something then and I thought they might have it (and often they didn't).
As time goes by, it gets worse and worse, like a lot of independent businesses. Largely it went to shit when Bob Daniels died and all the "shareholders" were trying to make money.
It's hard to beat Genova for plastic (made near Flint).
I'd be leery about buying anything Masco/Brasscraft/etc with all the splitups and supply chain issues going on. I'd probably stick to made-in-USA Kohler.
So I literally drive past Chelsea Lumber to go to Menards and Lowes to buy my lumber. It's not that I don't want to buy "local" but it's just that their prices are always 10%+ higher and the materials aren't any better quality. I spent 35 minutes digging through a pile of #2 better 2x6x10 while my assigned "helper" fellated his phone this past fall. Literally paying 50% more for garbage grade wood. Every piece had wane, loose knots, or splits that would even make a gymnast blush. Since they don't help you load, but merely guide you to the piles of shit (of which the knobs hardly ever know where shit is) and watch you dig through it.
I go there about once per year, and I often do call for quotes. This summer I was doing a major project (rebuilding my garage after a storm knocked a giant tree on it) and the only thing I ended up buying there was some shitty 2x6s and 3 adjustable steel posts. They were $600 higher on what it cost to roof my garage (shingles, synthetic felt, cap, ice guard, starter strips). Last time I roofed my garage in 2017 they were only 10% high ($200 or so) so I bought it from them. By the end of 2018 they weren't competitive on anything and I largely would only go there if I needed something then and I thought they might have it (and often they didn't).
As time goes by, it gets worse and worse, like a lot of independent businesses. Largely it went to shit when Bob Daniels died and all the "shareholders" were trying to make money.
It's hard to beat Genova for plastic (made near Flint).
I'd be leery about buying anything Masco/Brasscraft/etc with all the splitups and supply chain issues going on. I'd probably stick to made-in-USA Kohler.