- Carpet dealers - 2 Updates
- Ball points - 2 Updates
| BigDog811 <bigdog811@gmail.com>: Sep 23 07:50AM -0700 On Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 12:32:25 PM UTC-4, KenK wrote: > -- > You know it's time to clean the refrigerator > when something closes the door from the inside. Carpet dealers are generally local, or at best regional, so you should be asking for recommendations from people who live near you. Best to go with a carpet dealer rather than a big box multi-trade store. Carpet is carpet, and the brand you choose will be the same from one store to the other. There might be a slight difference in price, but if it's too great the guy with the low ball price is probably selling you a different carpet than you think you're buying. Also, the dedicated dealers generally employ their own installers. The big box stores subcontract the installation to the next guy up on their list; who may or may not be competent and may or may not ever work for them again. The local carpet dealer is going to be much more responsive to a problem because their business is more dependent on satisfied customers than the big box national stores. Angie's List is a good starting point. At least with them you know it's a legitimate business with all the locally required licenses, permits and insurance, not some fly by night hack who's using your deposit money to pay off his last job rather than buying your material. I've used them twice in the past 18 months to find contractors to build a deck, and replace the counter tops in our kitchen. Couldn't be happier. |
| BigDog811 <bigdog811@gmail.com>: Sep 23 06:26PM -0700 On Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 9:40:04 PM UTC-4, Camellia Sinensis wrote: > >when something closes the door from the inside. > Angie's List has turned into a scam itself. There are complaints of > horrible spamming and problems with referrals. Where can I find those complaints? I've not heard of any such issues in my area. I've been a paid Angie's List member for a little over two years. When I signed up I opted out of their email and phone offers and haven't a single email or phone call from them or any their registered businesses. > Going with the big box stores like Lowes and Home Depot is a pretty safe bet Sometimes, but not always. All of their installers are subcontractors, not employees so it's kind of catch as catch can in that area. >--most of the smaller mom and pop type stores are too expensive. It depends. We recently had quartz counter-tops installed in our kitchen. The original estimate from Home Depot was just under $3K, but by the time they added on "extras" like tear out and removal of the old counters and the plumbing the price jumped another $800.00. Plus it was going to take 10-14 days, start to finish. That's a long time to be without a functioning kitchen. We went with a kitchen design firm we found through Angie's List. Not only was the total price lower ($3450.00 all inclusive) for exactly the same quartz, but the job was done in five days. So...I guess you get what you pay for. Sometimes you get more. |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Sep 22 09:50PM -0700 >> transparent Bics I usually buy. When you start writing with one it >> almost always doesn't start producing ink on the paper until the >> first word or two has been written. Very annoying. I used to think that the cheap old PaperMates would last forever. They don't, but I've got some Uniball and Pentel gel pens from 1995 that are still working and feel really good. Current favorite is a (modern) BIC VelocityGel which I stole from somebody. > Some people have difficulty finding food enough for their children. > Others suffer indiscriminate bombings. In America we have trouble > with ballpoint pens that don't write for a second or two. How nice that your only concerns are bombing and famine. I might ask what you're doing here... -- Cheers, Bev Don't you just KNOW that there is more than one Sierra Club member who is absolutely sure that the dinosaurs died out because of something humans did? |
| Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>: Sep 23 01:01PM -0400 |
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