When building my home (2002), I took plans down to Lowe's, Home Despot and McCoy's. The nearest of the three was 30 miles away and they all tacked on $XX for each delivery.
Since the slab wasn't complete, I decided, "What the heck, I'll get a bid from the local small town chain 6 miles away." Lo and behold, he undercut EVERY one of them and the store owner even brought me six 2×4's when I couldn't drop what I was doing and he was about to close. McCoy's even told me they couldn't get 2×6 studs. All my exterior walls are 2×6 w/R-19 insulation. Heat with a wood stove and cool with window units. Eleven hundred sq/ft.
When building my home (2002), I took plans down to Lowe's, Home Despot and McCoy's. The nearest of the three was 30 miles away and they all tacked on $XX for each delivery.
Since the slab wasn't complete, I decided, "What the heck, I'll get a bid from the local small town chain 6 miles away." Lo and behold, he undercut EVERY one of them and the store owner even brought me six 2×4's when I couldn't drop what I was doing and he was about to close. McCoy's even told me they couldn't get 2×6 studs. All my exterior walls are 2×6 w/R-19 insulation. Heat with a wood stove and cool with window units. Eleven hundred sq/ft.
If I want more than the local offers, which isn't much, my first stop is Lowe's. Home Despot is always 2nd fiddle. McCoy's is only if they have something that isn't available elsewhere. They had a "deal" on some B&D battery tools I jumped on, but that's it.
My guys locally pull good pieces and get right on our here. I can call them, hot chick answers, asap, transfers me to salesman, asap, order on account, 5 min phone call
I also got punched by an old produce dude because I wheeled the banana rack around to take the greenish ones. I had the manager and cops roll the film and I got a free $1,500 smoker from HEB.
The guy hit like a puzzie but a punch is a punch, no do-overs !
Crackin' me up! My wife does that stuff. She worked in produce before too!
Don’t get me started on the hi end key machines they got that don’t cut keys right I’m a locksmith with a storefront these mutha fauggus need to stick to selling shingles and bent 2x4s
my daughter went to a HD, got 2 spare keys made from an automated machine.
Cut them good, but blanks were loaded in machine upside down.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
Can’t build a code inspected project or a home backed by FHA, major loan institution without kiln dried, certified lumber. Far as I know.
Sure, you can build a barn, chicken coup, cattle loading chute out of Uncle Darrell’s poplar bandsawed green logs. Long as don’t mind powder post beetles drilling frass pin holes out
I mean I would
Maybe a wharf for Fish Camp? One of those covered boat garages with a lift?
Can’t build a code inspected project or a home backed by FHA, major loan institution without kiln dried, certified lumber. Far as I know.
Sure, you can build a barn, chicken coup, cattle loading chute out of Uncle Darrell’s poplar bandsawed green logs. Long as don’t mind powder post beetles drilling frass pin holes out
I mean I would
Maybe a wharf for Fish Camp? One of those covered boat garages with a lift?
Can get some pretty nasty river backup flooding in there. TVA regulates the pool levels and youre subject to something be under 6ft of water for 30 days in all of those mowed bottoms.
In that bend of the creek, too there are also a few 200 year old oaks that would flatten anything built in there. That bluff is the first sharp rise of land after about a 3 mile open swamp. Wind hits that bend hard when a big frontal system beings storms.
I’ll move some rocks and maybe form a slab table/bench in there.