Search for Quality Parts

I have been greatly disappointed in the quality of manufactured items especially from China. It seems like lately everything I have installed is cheap and defective. For motion sensing security lights to recently the tiolet refill unit. I went to Lowe's the other day to replace a slow filling unit and decided to go with an American made unit of a different design and within 5 days it quit working-- would not shut off the filled tank!!

Any suggestions before buying another one???

dwells

1. move to Switzerland or to Singapore
or
2. lobby the Chinese to stop treating their human cattle as slaves to be worked to the bone and let a far larger portion of the $100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 they have accumulated trickle down to the people. The whole world can spend a more reasonable price to buy anything that is now currently being dumped at below anyone else's cost of materials price.

david

parts

Be more selective about the brand of item you buy. Made in America is good, but that does not automatically mean the device itself is superior to others.

In my own experience, the big stores simply cannot match the overall quality and service received at the local mom-and-pop hardware store where the actual owner works right out on the floor. But, such places and people are now nearly extinct.

Couldn't agree with you more. The quality of the bulk of consumer items (irregardless of the country of manufacture) is sorry, sorry, sorry 95% of the time. As far as fixtures, try Danze. We found that they offer very good quality for the $ -- best bang for the buck that we could find, hands down. We also have been happy with Toto, Perrin & Rowe and Rohl. Ditto for fireclay sinks by Shaws of Darwen (sold through Rohl). Also, most Kohler offerings are good, in our experience, although significantly more $ than Danze.

The History Channel just reported there were over 30,000 local hardware stores in the 1950s, and that today there are only around 14,000 ... with a growing number of "big boxes" in a variety of colors.

hardware

When customers are only concerned about price, and that is the majority of them, then the hardware store that tries to stock quality will quickly go out of business.