Advanced Scenery Fall 2018

The store that I selected was Benjamin Moore – M. SCHAMES & SON, INC. located at 90 Delancey St., New York, NY 10002. It is easy to find to the store itself because it is in one of the popular streets in Lower East side of Manhattan. This hardware store is focused in Painting and Hardware as well. As painting store it carry one of the best chain of painting. Benjamin Moore offer a select painting products and color combination very good. They have a great staff that help me in all my hardware and painting need. I asked them if in their database they know about a painting that I bought in 2009, and by my phone number they found it. It is a great store! I asked one of the staff: What makes this store stand out? and he answered me: the costumer service. It is the key! 

I chose to go to Harbor freight on 2441 Boston Rd, Bronx, NY 10467, because a lot of the more local hardware stores around me that were mom and pop, either closed or renovated there shops to be more like a 99-cents store. After exploring I realized Harbor freight was just about the last place in my neighborhood that sold hardware and tools.

The store offers a pretty wide variety of tools and hardware, everything from gardening tools,to wielding equipment, to auto shops specific tools. They had a lot of medium size power tools, and a ton, (probably literal) hand-tools and safety gear. Most of the power tools were cheap and weren’t name brand, but I’m sure in a pinch they beat not having anything at all. Ironically even though they didn’t have name brand power tools, they did some how have name brand floor jacks and pneumatic air tanks. They even had gas engines and electric motors. The only thing that really sucked about this place was, they had no materials, so whole isles of pneumatic fasteners, tools, power tools, but no wood, and the staff was quiet incompetent. I ask for a few things, not only would they not show me to the items until I told them what it for, only to get poor sale pitches disguised as suggestion, but they would end up emitting to never really knowing what tool or hardware I was asking for. Great stuff organized pretty decently, but not a great place to ask for help.

The hardware store I chose was Hornung’s True Value Hardware. This store is located in Harrisburg, PA on 2nd St. I actually have used this location before throughout my internship and now with my culmination project as well. I would compare this store to Harbor Freight. The tools are dirt cheap, but the quality is very low. This store I use mostly for fasteners and other small purchases. The staff is very friendly and helpful, asking what they can do for you as soon as you walk in. The staff knows a lot as well, but the biggest help is finding what you’re looking for.

The biggest downfall of this store is that everything seems very out of place. Three feet from the C-Clamps is dog food and next to that is gardening supplies. If you aren’t familiar with the layout finding anything alone is a challenge. This store sells mid sized power tools, but off brand and cheap. What is great about this store though is the location. It’s right on Harrisburg’s busiest street, and with no other hardware stores for miles, it has a monopoly.

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Going into this store was like approaching a hole in the wall. It’s a very cramped space that withholds a variety amount of items. There are items such as coffee makers and  vacuums even cooking ware. Heck there were even some kind of kitchen cleaning supplies.  There was literally a cubby hole filled with different pliers, gloves and some simple power tools. In addition to rubber foam for some purpose I honestly don’t recall. Employee wise they seemed to be the type that would just ring up the item and not really know. Business is slow there. Some of the hardware stores that I looked up closed up early as 7pm.

In all actuality my local hardware store is ironically Home Depot. However I’m sticking to this assignment to the letter. Based off of observation the store appeares to be the kind of store for quick fixes. Or even for doing some home projects. Meaning that the items there can be used by consumers that have an idea of what they’re doing. Especially when it can come to a quick fix like a leaky pipe. With home projects, there are some type of supplies one would need to for expample hang a picture.

This place by atmosphere is a type of environment where you can grab the essentials one needs to build up their home. Or one could consider it a one stop shop for minute needs. When I say build up one’s home I mean in the context of getting the needed supplies for moving in your new apartment to get it feeling more comfortable with the simple necessities.

*the area of the store was close by Grand Central Station getting off of the 4 train and a 9 minute walk. Had fun getting lost and also eventually finding the store and getting what I needed for this assignment.

The name of the hardware store I went to is LENOBLE LUMBER address is 38-20 REVIEW AVE. office number 718-784-5230 & 212-246-0150. LENOBLE LUMBER is best known for its lumber, its cheapest material being Poplar also known as POPI1848 which varies from a 4×8 1/8 to a 4×8 25/8 size. The most expensive material they have is known to be used on boat decks which is called Teak – TEAKAFCS34 which they only have in 4×8 3/4″ size. The staff was really helpful as soon as I walked into the office I explained my situation and was led to a salesperson that could answer my questions his name was Joe. Joe seemed to be pretty knowledgeable  of the material he is working with. We talked about the standard size of lumber and different range of lumber they have in stock. Such as Hard maple, Red Oak, Teak, Poplar, White Oak and so on.

The warehouse is pretty easy to find from the Voorhees building its a 14 minute drive and by train its a 58 minute ride on the train and then transfer to bus. The material is very easy to find due to the labeling and many staff working there asking if you need any assistance. Their tool supply is small because they have their tools located in the office. The tools they have are Elmer’s wood glue, Fabric staple guns, paint rollers and sleeves, door knows, drill bits, wood drill bits and staples. A very small but very standard material of tools they have in stock. LENOBLE LUMBER stands out to me because this the first lumber yard I have been to and the staff was really helpful and friendly.

Inside LENOBLE LUMBER

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Village Hardware, 22101-22179 Jamaica Ave, New York

Village Hardware isn’t a big shop so it doesn’t have a lot of variety, its great for picking up that last little tool or part to add the finishing touch on whatever project you may be working on. I talked to one of the workers there whose name was Ralph and he was very helpful. Ralph showed me what tools and other accessories they had such as hammers, drills, drill bits (basic tools) also paint, outlet covers and etc. I pretended to play dumb and ask him what each different drill bit to see how much he knew about the products he’s selling and of course Ralph knew. He told how each bit was used for a different kind of  screw and job, he also showed me these special bits used for sanding over edges of wood. Overall id rate Ralph’s knowledge 10/10.

Finding things in Village Hardware isn’t difficult at all since they have everything they have hanging or neatly displayed on shelves or racks, but if you by any chance your in need of assistance workers such as Ralph are right there to help you find what you’re looking for. Village Hardware is actually very easy to find they have a huge sign on the front that helps it stand out and if you miss that you can just look through the  windows to straight inside and see all the tools and accessories they have.

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Fulton Supply and hardware

74 Fulton st NY,NY 10038

they had a lot of cleaning supplies.The hardware store also provided many things to paint,different brushes and types of paint.Store mostly consisted of different supplies or things to help you with your supplies not many machinery tools they did offer tools to rent which is good for people who don’t have the money to purchase the expensive tools.The staff were helpful but they only helped unless you actually went to them for any questions for a situation.They did have knowledge because when someone went for something they needed like a tool, they would ask what’s the situation or why they needed and they gave their opinion on what they should purchase,maybe they did that to make them purchase something more expensive or they actually knew that’s what they had to get to be better.It was pretty difficult to find something in the store because even though it was separated by aisles,the rows of tools and supplies went up really high up so you really couldn’t see what they had up there and they had a lot of things behind the counter where people couldn’t go but employees

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