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Either one, but HD is worse. I buy at a REAL lumber yard, and last I bought, was actually cheaper
In Response To: Home Depot? or Lowes? 
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() This was dimension lumber in rough Western Red cedar, not ply.
Of course I've been dealing with that yard for 22 years, as a pro and now as a just plain customer-grin
I did buy some ply from Lowes- it was to close in one end of a green house. And make a door for same-
And remember- the American Ply is NOT sized as marked.. It's all undersized. You CANNOT buy 3/4 ply any more. Or 1/2 inch. In the wood shop, I had to buy special bits to route dados for the new stuff. And set up special spacers for the dados sets on the table saw. Other wise the joints will rattle. Real PITA.
It's REALLY kinda made to metric sizes, and labeled for us clutzes here who don't use the metric system.. And we keep buying it!!
Messages In This Thread
- Marine grade Plywood?
- True. I worked in the plywood machinery business for years.
- Bend plywood???
- No, most US plywood is junk, good for houses only.
- Home Depot? or Lowes?
- Either one, but HD is worse. I buy at a REAL lumber yard, and last I bought, was actually cheaper
- Music to my ears. My main supplier started his business the year I was born, and he still works there every day.
- Sad that the big box stores have replaced real hardware stores...
- Have to say this though. I was in Lowe's a few weeks ago, and found plywood
- Small world.
- I'm surprised . . . but pleased to hear that
- In Rockland Maine-the Pine Tree State, Home Depot sells wood pellets imported from Georgia. ???
- In Rockland Maine-the Pine Tree State, Home Depot sells wood pellets imported from Georgia. ???
- Local hardware stores are it!
- Do you realize what you just wrote?
- Home Depot? or Lowes?
