Hardwareing

Bunnings has opened!


The giant of all hardwares has finally opened it's new giant store in Eltham. The construction of which has caused chaos amongst the traffic, new traffic lights and consequently traffic build up at peak hour and will be taking business from the smalled individual building supply stores in the area.


A few weeks ago when sourcing materials for my new 'sluts' for my bed base I went in to Bunnings and hated it. I'd always loved going int here for odd things that i just new such a big store was bound to have, but when I actually went looking specifically for something hardwarey, ie. timber, I needed help- and Bunnings couldn't give it to me. I stood there staring at the product for ages and eventually figured out which lengths, widths and how many I would need, but still nary a worker in sight.

So I left, and headed out to the scary 'man' hardware on the other side of Eltham. I could tell that they just though I was a stupid girl who didn't belong in their timber yard, but they hid it the best they could, showed me the product, compared prices, cut it to length and I was done. Easy. Not really so scary after all. And much better than stupid old Bunnings.

But, to make it up to us (and I think this more than does it) on Friday they are having fireworks, that's right fireworks, at Bunnings.

We'll have to wait and see if the customer service is any better in this new building, but for now I'm happy just with fireworks.