07/12/09

Have an older house?

by brad2021hk

If you have a 2 year old track home, you can get what you need at Lowes or Home Depot. Otherwise, you may need to look here. Home Depot has more stuff. East Sac Hardware has more variety.

Every time I go to East Sac Hardware to get a specific part, they have it. The last time I needed a fitting to connect a 1/2" gas line to a 3/4 connector. It was late so I tried both Home Depot and Lowes. No luck. The next morning East Sac HW had it. They also had the exact parts I needed to fix my sprinklers.

• Pros: Varied selection
• Cons: More expensive than big box

07/08/09

Great traditional hardware store

by perrybw

Great hardware store - the absolute antithesis of the big box Home Depot warehouse mentality. Shop at stores like this and support them!

• Pros: Good selection, friendly staff

07/06/09

This is one of the few old goodies

by KatinSaK

There are so few small excellent hardware stores like this around anymore. When there is still one out there it's probably because they are exceptionally good. Thus enabling them to withstand the lure of the big box stores. This is just such a place. I have found several things here that I had been looking for for years elsewhere, without success. They have great a great fasteners dept. and a small, but nicely selected array of stuff. They have been even been the source of great referrals to what is for years now my existing plumber and electrician.

• Pros: Helpful clerks. Unusual & hard to find stuff.