4wanderingeyes
5 year old buck +
This spring/summer I will be building a 40x50 garage/shop/shed with a bonus room built in the tresses on my hunting land, then a couple years after that I will be building a house and moving there. I had gotten quotes from 2 of the local lumber yards, also Menards, and Home Depot. What I found was, Menards blew the others out of the water, and was $15,000 cheaper (25%) then the next quote. Mind you I handed them the parts lists, with the specs, and I went over them to make sure we were comparing apples to apples here. About the only differences I noticed was the Mendards tresses were actually beefier, and looked (on paper) to be a stronger tresses. The only other difference was the steel siding, Menards quoted me with 40 year siding, rather then life time warranty siding (same thickness, just a longer paint warranty), and was $4000 cheaper. They explained to me that the 40 year siding is what they sell the most of, and said chances are the siding will out last me, and the problem with Lifetime warranties are the manufacturers are rarely around to stand by their warranties longer then 40 years anyhow. Made sense. Menards shipping costs was $1500 cheaper as well.
Anyhow my concerns are of course building anything with Menards lumber. I know they exchange any lumber I dont want to use, but that is a pain, but is the pain worth the $16,500 price difference?
Has anyone purchased their lumber and materials from Menards? Any issues with it, an wish you hadnt? Prior to getting in all of the quotes, my original plan was to get most of the materials from the local lumber yard, then get the accessories from Menards, or wherever they were on sale. But after getting the estimates, $16,500 savings is huge!
Just looking for inputs.
Anyhow my concerns are of course building anything with Menards lumber. I know they exchange any lumber I dont want to use, but that is a pain, but is the pain worth the $16,500 price difference?
Has anyone purchased their lumber and materials from Menards? Any issues with it, an wish you hadnt? Prior to getting in all of the quotes, my original plan was to get most of the materials from the local lumber yard, then get the accessories from Menards, or wherever they were on sale. But after getting the estimates, $16,500 savings is huge!
Just looking for inputs.