I'm in Calgary, Canada. Here, there is no contest. Take your plans to a building suppplier and he will do a material take off and quote the entire package. They stage deliveries to your specs ...and deliver to the work area.
Rona, Home Depot and the others are strictly for retail consumers -- small quantities. Some box stores ie Totem will attempt a material takeoff, but their results are mixed. The box stores' idea of delivering is to drop the materials at the curb.
Ken
Why not? When they order lumber they specify what quality they want. A lumberyard knows folks who buy there know what it is all about and aren't going to insult them by ordering big box quality lumber making them sift through piles to find a few good pieces.
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You can get good lumber at a real lumberyard. I will give you an example I mentioned before. I was building a deck so I sent the bill of materials to a local real lumberyard. They called back and told me the amount and I told them where to find the check.
They delivered my order and every piece was good. My neighbor is totally trained by home depot that they are his friend and even though it is 15 miles away he has to run to "the depot" for everything. He saw the quality of the lumber that was delivered and remarked "you must have been at the depot all day picking this out". You would think that I told him a carrot was growing out of his nose when I told him I had it delivered sight unseen and it cost less than "the depot".
Thank you for the info. I will try to talk to a couple of lumber yards. A couple of them are within 5 miles radius from my house. I have a fundamental question though. I do I know if building stuff I get from lumberyard is btter then what I can get from HD? I am not a pro but I saw houses build built/additionas put with the same GP plywood, the same Tyvek, the same JM insulation. I cannot speak about lumber but I guess if it is straight does it really mater what supplier it came from? I am just saying that uless I do not see something, fundamental building stuff is the same, regardless if it came from HD or local lumberyard.
What I have found is using BOTH is the best....I agree to a certain point about contractor yards having somewhat better lumber...Well not really better , The wood all comes from Canada , they just toss aside the crap and Homedepot lets it sit around...For lumber and drywall or other things to bulky to haul it is usually bettter to use the contractor yards even if it's a little more...Delivery makes it worth it...BUT for joint compound , insulation , ect. I go to the Homedepot to save money....2.00 a pail on joint compound for example...So it isn't an either or situation...Use both...HTH....
To my knowledge, no reasonable sized contractors use HD or Lowes.
Many around here obviously get better deals (in volume) by dealing with REAL lumber yards such as Foxworth- Galbraith
This is the place to get your drywall supplies:
Hard wood floor and color and price
Garage door and size and material
Wood grain butt-stock. Varnished of course.
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