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Expertise at a Home Depot can be problematic. Sometimes you get someone who really knows what they are talking about. Sometimes you get someone who doesn't, b

Expertise at a Home Depot can be problematic. Sometimes you get someone who really knows what they are talking about. Sometimes you get someone who doesn't, but is speaking with authority anyway. A friend recently told me about a time he sent his wife in to Home Depot with a list of things to get, and she came home with a different set of things that an employee recommended. My friend went back there to raise a stink about being sold the wrong things, found out the employee was a out of work plumber, and that "sharkbite" is great stuff. "That's funny" I told my friend, "Literally yesterday I was talking with my plumber and he pointed out that I had sharkbite running to my sprinkler system. I told him I didn't know what his opinion of it was, but I didn't love sharkbite, he said he didn't love it either." Mostly I go to my local hardware store because it's 2 minutes away rather than 15. Lowes is another 5+ minutes further, but it seems to have a lot more choice in some things, and I've had a bad experience with a couple Home Depot employees that I just can't let go of. Home Depot does seem to have a weird set of things they do stock and don't. Like all their thinset mortar didn't seem to be labeled as modified or unmodified last weekend...

Pxtl 9y ago
Either way, the fact that you can even have that conversation with a person at the store is a huge difference from the kid who'll read you the card on the display if you ask him about a product at Best Buy. And yeah, I used sharkbite to book my dishwasher up, but it's definitely on the list of "get that replaced next time a plumber is in the house".
BeetleB 9y ago
FWIW, my friend is a plumber and he thinks Sharkbite is one of the best things that happened to plumbing. Of course he didn't use it for every job because the cost isn't always justified. I suck at plumbing. For people like me who do the occasional repair around the house, Sharkbite is a godsend.
- linsomniac 9y ago
  ... until it isn't. I'm just finishing up a kitchen/dining room remodel due to water damage, so I'm probably gun shy here. :-) (clarification: Unrelated to sharkbite, but I appreciate the damage water can cause)

Pxtl 9y ago

Either way, the fact that you can even have that conversation with a person at the store is a huge difference from the kid who'll read you the card on the display if you ask him about a product at Best Buy. And yeah, I used sharkbite to book my dishwasher up, but it's definitely on the list of "get that replaced next time a plumber is in the house".

BeetleB 9y ago

FWIW, my friend is a plumber and he thinks Sharkbite is one of the best things that happened to plumbing. Of course he didn't use it for every job because the cost isn't always justified. I suck at plumbing. For people like me who do the occasional repair around the house, Sharkbite is a godsend.

linsomniac 9y ago
... until it isn't. I'm just finishing up a kitchen/dining room remodel due to water damage, so I'm probably gun shy here. :-) (clarification: Unrelated to sharkbite, but I appreciate the damage water can cause)