I needed 50 ft of 1'' EMT conduit and stopped at home depot and they were sold out. I stopped at mars electric which is a local electrical supply house and they want $68 for a 10'stick! WTF? Home depot sells it for $17! Needless to say I stopped at another HD and found some.
Price of conduit.
- Thread starter Robert hocevar
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Sounds like a "stick UP" to me....sorry, I just couldn't resist.
We have a local supply place here that will jack up the price to double or triple if you are not a contractor.
Before I retired, I bought at them all the time, but once I no longer worked there......
I just call the place and get a price before I go in, so they can't do the bait and switch.
I have also found a small local owned supply that is glad to sell things, so I support him all I can.
Before I retired, I bought at them all the time, but once I no longer worked there......
I just call the place and get a price before I go in, so they can't do the bait and switch.
I have also found a small local owned supply that is glad to sell things, so I support him all I can.
I get stuff from a local supply house and I get random prices. Sometimes they give me prices that are cheaper than HD and sometimes they are more. Who knows.
looney2ns
IPCT Contributor
Open an account with most places like that, and you will get the magic price.
I do have a account with that distributor!
Prices have gone up, I paid $9.00 for a 10' 3/4" conduit at HD. I used to pay $1.98 for it, this is insane. Get use to.these prices, this all happened due to.the stroke of a some body's pen.
It's another way of hyper inflation? Loss of value to the dollar by what, printing too much money and the dollar not being backed by gold or silver?
Yeah I needed a 2x4x10 pressure treated a few weeks ago. It was literally 2x the price at HD that it was when I was working on my last project in early 2020.
sebastiantombs
Known around here
You don't want to know what I paid for 10 6x6 10 footers in CCA (pressure treated). Had to authorize the charge on the credit card, no kidding.
It sure is. Been putting off re-roofing and just realized a 4x8' sheet of OSB is going for $82 at HD! When I checked last year they were $8.