Top 10 Home Depot SECRETS Every Dad Should Know | Dad Deals

Used to work at Home Depot. We had ripped bags of mulch and rocks in garden and concrete mix inside. Also, any normal employee has up to $50 they can mark off every shift with putting the customer first. So for instance let's say you wanted to buy 15 feet of Romax cable but they were all out of that size you could get a 25 foot Roll for the same price as 15 feet and just ask them to mark it down and they almost always will without even having to talk to a manager. Department heads could write off $100, ASM/GM for $200 or more. This may have changed as this was more than a decade ago but rather than driving to a second Home Depot for a product, see if you can get a bigger/better one for the same price as the smaller/cheaper one first

Pro tip for getting assistance. If you need something from high on a shelf, go find one of their "aircraft loading stairs" and wheel it over. Guaranteed they'll coming running out of the woodwork, fearing that a lawsuit is about to happen, lecturing you about how dangerous it is. One way or the other, objective accomplished.

Another tip for rental. If you rent the day before a holiday when HD is closed, you get that day for free.

I rented a small compressor to air up a small inflatable pool, and returned it after an hour and a half, and the employee cancelled my charge! She said it was FREE because I didn’t have it long.

I miss the hotdog and bratwurst stand they used to feature.

You forgot one which is... "Dont be a douche." I had a customer come in and she was very abbusive because she could not get a custom door designed and installed in less than a week. As if her poor planning was my fault. She bought a really nice double door which ended up being about 5K. Somehow I forgot to tell her that the company she was ordering from had a 30% off sale starting in three days. Oh well... she WAS in a hurry.

I was a MET associate for years and you would not believe how many good items get thrown into the dumpster daily. After those marked down items are not sold, dumpster time. Dented or damaged appliances etc, dumpster. Garden plants are recycled out weekly, dumpster. When new items come in to replace older model items, dumpster. I recall seeing a load of new rakes come in one spring and the only difference to the old rakes they were replacing was the color of the handle, dumpster.

I used to work for HD tool rental. This is a high profit dept. So if you have any issues with your rental, as long as we believe you, we will make it right. Tool didn't act right, and you had to make a special trip back? We'll give you a new tool and reduce the rent by half. But don't lie to us. We are very good BS detectors.

I bought some really large (24x48) floor tile that was displayed as a new item for $5.99/sq ft. Two months later it had been reduced to - wait for it - $0.59/sq ft. Yes, 90% off. Apparently HD decided that it wasn't generating enough sales and they wanted it gone. I asked if I could get a price match on the tile already purchased, and they agreed! Best deal I ever got there. Point being: watch for price reductions on stuff you recently bought.

As to the tool rental maintenance, I rented a small electric chainsaw from HD and was a little shocked to learn that for liability reasons they replace the chain after each rental. At least that's what they said. And yes, no matter what I'm in for, I will always go by the clearance sections. But I do have to say that at one local HD, not everything on the clearance shelf is at a clearance price so look carefully.

I was at Home Depot in Klamath, Oregon, waiting for some one. As I stood there I watched someone pulling all the nice plants off the shelves and putting them into a large shopping cart. These were not the cheap plants, these all had a price tag of $29.95 or more. I asked what she was doing. She told me when they get a new shipment in all the current stock was written off as a loss and thrown away. I suggested they would make a beautiful gift for people in nursing homes, or they could be donated to the local garden club as a fund raiser. I was then told if I wanted them, after the store was closed I could get them out of the dumpster behind the store. I would have if I did not live about 50 miles away. Seems like such a sad waste.

I'm that guy that loads 1000lbs on a cart and fights it to the register and through the parking lot 😅. Great tip 👍

I always frequented the cull lumber cart at my HD but it disappeared a year or so ago. I just so happened to be there when an employee was cutting some of it into smaller pieces and asked about it. He said they no longer sold it but destroyed it. I asked if I could buy some and he got a manager who confirmed that it was going in the trash but let me have some free. Haven’t seen any since, but glad to hear that other stores still do it. Thanks for your great vids!

Pretty brave with those fingers and that hammer swinging! LOL.

Best Dad tip i can give is F Home depot and Lowes. Buy locally and from supply houses! Home depot is charging almost $20 for ONE steel stud! I buy them locally by the bundle for 1/2 that price and sit in my truck as they load them up for me

From the condition of a lot of their lumber they have in stock, It needs to be reduced as soon as it enters the building! I'm not a perfectionist but have spent a lot of extra time sorting through all the crap lumber they have on the shelves!

Are you CHRIS FIX?

Not sure if this is available in all stores, but if you bring your own bucket/ container, they will give you the broken ready mix concrete bags.

Culled lumber doesn't exist in my area any more. When I asked managers about it, they said it was a mandate sent down from corporate that all culled lumber must go into the compactor and cannot be given away. I was given two different reasons - one was that people would use a receipt for purchased lumber to return the culled lumber for a refund, and the second was that everything thrown in the compactor was a tax write off as a business loss.

Um I’m a single mom who does most of the repairs and fixing or building things why is it Dads need to know these things oh that’s right because us smart woman already know everything!😂😂😂😂