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Tile - better supplier than HomeDepot kellyj00@gmail.com 11-29-2006
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Posted by kellyj00@gmail.com on November 29, 2006, 3:38 pm


Tile at home depot is darned expensive. I'm looking for the most
generic beige tile I can find, nothing fancy or particular...but I need
a bunch of it... about 1000 square feet, and I'm looking for 12"x12",
but that doesn't matter too much if the price is right.

Anybody here ever do mail order for such a heavy item? Where do
contractors find theirs?


Posted by on November 29, 2006, 4:46 pm



kellyj00@gmail.com wrote:
> Tile at home depot is darned expensive. I'm looking for the most
> generic beige tile I can find, nothing fancy or particular...but I need
> a bunch of it... about 1000 square feet, and I'm looking for 12"x12",
> but that doesn't matter too much if the price is right.
>
> Anybody here ever do mail order for such a heavy item? Where do
> contractors find theirs?

You're right. The Home Depot is expensive for tile, and I find their
quality to be lacking on some types of tile. I buy my tile at The Tile
Shop. Perhaps you're lucky enough to have one of their stores around
you.

BRW


Posted by dpb on November 29, 2006, 5:03 pm



kellyj00@gmail.com wrote:
> Tile at home depot is darned expensive. I'm looking for the most
> generic beige tile I can find, nothing fancy or particular...but I need
> a bunch of it... about 1000 square feet, and I'm looking for 12"x12",
> but that doesn't matter too much if the price is right.
>
> Anybody here ever do mail order for such a heavy item? Where do
> contractors find theirs?

Tile in general _is_ expensive. Contractors in general for residential
go to tile suppliers who do wholesale support to the trade. You might
look into that locally. Other option if you're not picky and are in
place of reasonable size is the salvage/returns/closeout type places.
Ya' never know what they'll have at any particular time so ya' gotta'
have some flexibility and be willing to go slumming usually, but may
(or may not) find a bargain.

Read in last Fine Homebuilding one of their projects the guy bought a
pallet of tile thru eBay for a reasonable savings on cost/ft at least.
That for his project he probably only used half or a little more and
didn't say what it cost him to get it shipped so no way to tell what
the installed cost was, is only a minor flaw in the story... :)


Posted by on November 29, 2006, 7:33 pm


Last week the tile you refer to was 58 cents a piece at Lowes
I have allready taken about 500 home

kellyj00@gmail.com wrote:
> Tile at home depot is darned expensive. I'm looking for the most
> generic beige tile I can find, nothing fancy or particular...but I need
> a bunch of it... about 1000 square feet, and I'm looking for 12"x12",
> but that doesn't matter too much if the price is right.
>
> Anybody here ever do mail order for such a heavy item? Where do
> contractors find theirs?


Posted by krw on November 29, 2006, 10:22 pm


kellyj00@gmail.com says...
> Tile at home depot is darned expensive.

Huh?

> I'm looking for the most
> generic beige tile I can find, nothing fancy or particular...but I need
> a bunch of it... about 1000 square feet, and I'm looking for 12"x12",
> but that doesn't matter too much if the price is right.

Is $1000 too much?
>
> Anybody here ever do mail order for such a heavy item? Where do
> contractors find theirs?

Troll alert!

--
Keith

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