Larry Caldwell wrote:
I went to Lowe's today to pick up an assortment of materials; a 1 micron
water filter, a toilet handle, a tube of butyl calk, a gallon of Snow
Roof, a 3" self-closing RV trailer dump fitting, and a 3x2 curb mount
Velux skylight.

I ended up getting the toilet handle. None of the other items were in
stock. What kind of building supply store doesn't stock butyl calk?
Last month I went there looking for a quad 20 breaker, and they didn't
stock those either. The irritating thing is that, when Lowes built
their store, a local building supply went out of business, but I could
buy all the stuff at the local building supply in one stop.

That's just one of the reasons I try to give my business to a locally
owned retail. We have electrical and plumbing supply dealers as well
as a local building supply store that delivers things too big for my
vehicle at no extra cost within a day or two. Sid's hardware store
is open on Sunday and has a very good inventory of electrical and
plumbing parts -- enough to handle anything I'd actually need on a
Sunday emergency. For electrical stuff I don't feel comfortable doing
myself there are Charlie and Gil (Charlie also runs network cables)
and for plumbing there's Rolf all of whom tend to have an amazing supply
of items in their possession on a daily basis.

LowesDepot is for looking around and getting ideas.

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