Really frustrated with hardware cloth from local big box -- where to buy the good stuff?

[MelissaTXRn]

http://www.wireclothman.com/shop.php?cPath=54

I dont know how much shipping is though.

 

[Mtn Laurel]

Got mine from Amazon in April. Best price - even compared to local stores - at that time and free shipping. They brought it right to the door. Good wire, too.

 

[OScarlet]

Crazy cable, those prices do look good, unfortunately shipping would be $75 to me

Chickenkids and Laurel, which one on Amazon did you buy? The 1/2" 48 wide one I'm looking at (what I want) is actually the same brand as the one I bought at Home Depot believe it or not! I see some reviews on there say the same things I have found. It doesn't work out any cheaper for me because Home Depot did an exchange on the roll for a different problem and so I got half a roll free.

http://www.amazon.com/Gilbert-Benne...1376581481&sr=8-2&keywords=hardware+cloth+1/2

Aart, will look at Ace thanks.

 

[XtremeRooster]

19ga 1/2" 4' x 100' for $105 ordered thru my local Ace hardware.
Nice stuff, very straight and smooth.

WOW! I bought two rolls of 19ga. 4' x 100' from Ag-Supply for $114. The wire is straight and the quality is good for 19 ga. wire.

 

[OScarlet]

ack, over $200 for the ace stuff, I won't get a refund from Home Depot so it would be $200 more. Still vacillating between buying the pricey stuff and using the money I would spend to buy electric wire. Is it bad that even though I think the electric wire plus so-so wire is probably a better choice over really good wire I want to buy the really good wire so it is straight and pretty?

Xtreme Rooster, we do have a tractor supply -- 300 miles away!

 

[Mtn Laurel]

Crazy cable, those prices do look good, unfortunately shipping would be $75 to me

Chickenkids and Laurel, which one on Amazon did you buy? The 1/2" 48 wide one I'm looking at (what I want) is actually the same brand as the one I bought at Home Depot believe it or not! I see some reviews on there say the same things I have found. It doesn't work out any cheaper for me because Home Depot did an exchange on the roll for a different problem and so I got half a roll free.

http://www.amazon.com/Gilbert-Benne...1376581481&sr=8-2&keywords=hardware+cloth+1/2

Aart, will look at Ace thanks.

Mine was 36 inch, 100 ft. length, 1/2 inch, 19 gauge. Pretty sure it was the Mat Midwest. Please do future buyers a favor and review the brand you got that you didn't like. I rely on those reviews a lot and find most of them very accurate.

 

[MelissaTXRn]

My husband and I have enough metal splinters in us to set off the security system at the airport. Lolol!!! We hung hardware cloth all day.

 

[OScarlet]

ok did so, thanks for the reminder.

NB one of the reviews on the MAT wire mentioned that their wire tested positive for lead.

 

[OScarlet]

I was hanging wire and stapling it until my kids and husband had bickered so much I couldn't stand to be around people any more. I have retreated to our bedroom with the door shut and woe betide any more people come and whine and complain and argue with me for the next hour or so.

I need wine or chocolate or TV or a new head!

 

[aart]

Most galvanized metals have a trace of lead as well as zinc and I don't know what else....what makes for the more than usual irritation if you get scratched/cut with it.

I think shipping is the key...Ace didn't charge me for shipping as they have orders coming in every week anyway...and I trusted that if the quality was sub par they would take it back, I've done business with them in a small rural town for 15 years.

Tractor Supply wanted $130 for the roll and $50 shipping. Every local store and online deals are different, pays to check closely.