A word to the wise, go to Hardware Sales for your home electrical needs. Platt has utter disdain for joe public.
Here's the short of it: Figured I would go to Platt because as a happily paying customer I figured I'd go where the pros go to get a little advice on what materials and hardware I needed. As the only customer in the store I waited about five minutes while the staff went on about their own conversations and BS'ing without the slightest hint of acknowledgment toward me. I finally asked if I should go somewhere else because I felt like maybe my desire to hand over a hundred bucks of hard earned cash to them was getting in their way, to which someone begrudgingly got up from behind their desk to go find the least surly employee they had to help me. I explained to him my situation and said I wasn't sure which gauge wire I needed and he said he couldn't help me decide that... so I bought the hardware I thought I needed and quit the place fairly fuming. I decided to stop by Hardware Sales just to see if I could get some actual advice on what I was doing and the fellow there was more than kind, helpful, and knowledgable pointing me in the right direction and helping me to realize that the parts that I bought from Platt were in fact not what I needed at all. Platt was useless, a waste of time, and infuriating. Nothing like the feeling of a bunch of holier than thou contractors and desk jockeys looking down upon the lowly homeowner trying to learn something for himself. What a greasy bag of dicks. read more