Building materials from home depot?

[Mach1]

I need to wire up my shop, 10 outlets, 8 lights, 2 welding outlets, conduit for all, etc. How does home depots pricing on this stuff compare to an actual electric supply house? I know for metal (angle, tube, etc) HD is extremely high on pricing so I'm wondering how high electric and lumber is compared to the supply companies.

[snacksnack]

For me when I went to my local supply house it was no benifit price wise and maybe more in some cases as I wasn't a contractor. Now they do have things that Home Depot may not and that could be of value.

[Rreemo]

This ad is a little old now, but look for some deals like this too - http://dallas.craigslist.org/ftw/for/5057095118.html

I always see people with crap like this on CL, and you can usually make a deal for cents on the dollar. I bought a bunch of lights, rolls of wire, and conduit from a guy for literally about a 10th of what retail would have been.

[fordracing19]

Dads an electrical contractor and Home Depot is about the same on stuff they carry. Romex is actually cheaper a lot of times. When we wired my house I bought it all at Home Depot or Lowes.

[Rreemo]

Mach1 - are you going to use Romex, or planning to pull individual wires?

[dcs13]

Craigslist has some deals...

http://dallas.craigslist.org/ftw/mat/5160076329.html

http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/mat/5158362716.html

http://dallas.craigslist.org/mdf/mat/5097579072.html

I don't know retails prices that well, but I bet there is some deals to be had

[ram57ta]

Home Depot is cheaper than Lowes on most stuff. As for the supply houses like Crawford, Dealers, etc....Home Depot has considerably better prices on the typical use stuff...but only carries basic items that most homeowners are likely to need. Crawford and Dealers will sell to anyone at the counter...you might pay more...but they deal more in commercial work and large contracts like cities, governments...so yes...they charge more. Unless you're trying to run heavy duty industrial 3 phase equipment in your garage...Home Depot will carry just about anything you would need to wire up your garage.

[8mpg]

Other than wire...HD/Lowes is hard to beat.

I found Elliot Electric was way cheaper on 300' of 6/2 direct burial than HD/Lowes.

http://www.elliottelectric.com/Products/SearchResults.aspx?comm=0

[03mustangdude]

Lowes is usually cheaper if you take the coupons into account, sign up on the website to get 10 off 50 coupon.

Use gmail and do the gmail trick to get multiple ones sent to the same email address.

[8mpg]

Lowes is usually cheaper if you take the coupons into account, sign up on the website to get 10 off 50 coupon.

Use gmail and do the gmail trick to get multiple ones sent to the same email address.

dont even need to do that...

http://renovopower.com/lowes.html

just click one of the boxes for a coupon... if the lowes website says its used, just click it again for another. Make multiple transactions for the best deals

[Mach1]

dont even need to do that...

http://renovopower.com/lowes.html

just click one of the boxes for a coupon... if the lowes website says its used, just click it again for another. Make multiple transactions for the best deals

Thanks, saved me $160

[GrayStangGT]

Typically HD is just as cheap or cheaper than an Electrical Supply house. Sometimes on items I don't have a purchase agreement on, HD will be cheaper than I can get it as a contractor from the supply house.

[abecx]

Amazon.

[8mpg]

Thanks, saved me $160

awesome... Glad you could save some money