Conference 7.286::home_work

I've used them.  They have great prices and they sell good brands 
of merchandise. It's not like a store where you can walk in and shoot 
the breeze... there's a small display area and then three guys behind 
desks who take orders.  Stricly business.  They'll offer advice and 
answer questions to a reasonable extent, but you really should know what 
you want before you go there.
					>>>==>PStJTT

We bought all the windows for our house there.  I wouldn't go back.  I arranged 
to have them delivered, they never mentioned that there was a delivery charge 
until the truck pulled up at our house, I had assumed since there was no 
mention that the prices included delivery.  A couple of the windows were
damaged, so we had to have them replace them.  It was nearly a year later that
we got everything straightened out.  They "next week"ed me constantly, and the
NEVER took action on anything unless I bugged them about it.  They had my
number, but they never called when something came in.  On one occaison, I
called to see if they had one of the windows, and they said it had come in
three weeks before.  I went to pick it up, and it turned out they had
subsequently sold it to someone else.  For another window, I had to order a 
replacement sash because the glass was broken, and after a similarly long 
period of bugging them it arrived - only it was the wrong one.  Yes, they have 
low prices, and if everything arrives OK you'll be all set, but they did not
do well at all at following up on problems.

This was three years ago, so I have no idea if things have changed.  

Paul

    
    	I had gone to them for prices before I built my house. They
    were about 20% higher on all doors and windows then what I got 
    from my lumberyard.  I was not impressed with them at all.  I  
    stood in front of one guy for about 15 minutes while he continued
    his "personal" phone call.  Phooey!!  Try to get ALL your stuff
    from one place and you'll do much better on prices.
    

Re: .2

After I finished reply .1, I asked myself "Should I mention that you 
should bring your own truck?" but I was in a hurry and didn't want to 
write another reply.

Fairview Millworks does not deliver.  If you want delivery, they will 
arrange it through a private trucking company.  When you don't arrange 
your own delivery, it gets expensive.  

Bear in mind that although these guys will sell to anyone who walks in 
off the street, their "target audience" is builders and contractors and 
not consumers.


Re: .3
	So who's your lumber yard?  
						>>>==>PStJTT

    
    
      Well, I went there on Saturday morning and much to my surprise
    I was the only one there. It is, as was said before, a place where
    builders would most likely go as the displays were poorer than I've
    seen at many a lumber yard. BUT, the prices were much lower on doors.
    I would like to see more than one door on display though in order
    to get a better feel as to the consistency of their quality.
      Their prices on doors, for example, were $117.00 for 6 panel pine
    with split jamb, 2 1/2" colonial casing, brass butts and Schlage
    passage hardware in these stocked sizes: 1-6, 2-0, 2-4, 2-6 & 2-8. 
    
    Rob

    I bought a door there only to discover on the way home that Northeast
    Salvage across the street sold a better door for less money.  They
    sell lots of doors and windows at NES and although from the outside
    it looks like stuff pulled out of old buildings they have lots of
    new stuff.  Worth checking out for onesies and twosies.
    Northeast Salvage  603-886-4388  Amherst St, NH

    
    PERSONALLY I WOULD GO TO PF OCCONNOR WHERE THEY ARE MORE SERVICE
    ORIENTED AND DELIVERY CAN BE ARRANGED.  I HAVE BOUGHT FROM THEM
    IN THE PAST BUT NOT AGAIN.
    
    DON