I'm semi-ashamed to say that upon reading that, my first concern was that Spenard might go under if that was so, and that would be a crying shame as they are indeed the leading building supply place.
Yet it's highly believable, if they were being consistent with their practices in Fairbanks -- Dad mentioned to me (upon going out of there with shelf brackets) that due to the Good Ol' Boys' Network, he had paid the contractor rate for the shelf brackets, not the consumer rate, despite his not being a contractor. (Dad built our house himself, but with attention to building codes and safety, and had a large number of home improvement projects, but wasn't in business doing that sort of thing.)
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Date: 2009-07-05 01:30 pm (UTC)I'm semi-ashamed to say that upon reading that, my first concern was that Spenard might go under if that was so, and that would be a crying shame as they are indeed the leading building supply place.
Yet it's highly believable, if they were being consistent with their practices in Fairbanks -- Dad mentioned to me (upon going out of there with shelf brackets) that due to the Good Ol' Boys' Network, he had paid the contractor rate for the shelf brackets, not the consumer rate, despite his not being a contractor. (Dad built our house himself, but with attention to building codes and safety, and had a large number of home improvement projects, but wasn't in business doing that sort of thing.)