Home Depot Crummy Sub-par products last about as long as the warranty. Marion Illinois

Let me get this straight. You bought ALL of the products needed to build your house from The Home Depot (America's Home Improvement Warehouse, not a general contractor). You feel that THD is to blame because the manufacturer's take the money you spend on their products and put it into research which tells them EXACTLY how long the product will last. The MANUFACTURER warrants the product, NOT THE HOME DEPOT. It is in the manufacturer's interest to only warranty the product for as long as they know it will function properly; if they know something will fail after 13 months, they will only warranty it for 12. The warranty is meant to protect you against defective product, products which do not last as long as they are designed to. If you buy a faucet with a 1 year warranty, consider yourself lucky if it lasts longer than that. Buy a faucet with a 10 year warranty and it will last ten years, get it? Your complaint should be filed with and directed at the manufacturer's of the products you purchased, not THD. Do you really expect the "wal-mart" of home improvement stores to sell products meant to last forever, that won't keep you walking through their orange doors.

Okay, so forgive me if this is starting to look like a personal blog, but I said all these products last as long as the warranty in a previous report.. I was wrong on one count so far. I mentioned a valve that got a small crack in it and slowly leaked into the adjacent room. The exact same thing just happened to the valve under my kitchen sink and has completely destroyed my 20 X 40 Armstrong Wood floor, which Ironically I didn't buy at Home Depot. The leaky valve did however come from Home Depot and sprung a tiny leak because the body cracked just like the other one mentioned in my previous report. I don't care if it was value priced, NOBODY should sell home construction parts of this poor quality...

"When I was building my house I only had a few choices for fixtures...". I'm not sure what that means. Did you have to buy them or did the person building the house buy them at HD. The reason I'm asking is cause I built my house 13 years ago. Last week the toilet seat cracked. I went to HD and looked at toilet seats. The price varied from $3 to $50. I bought a $20 seat. It depends on what you pay. I've seen ceiling fans from $29 to $500. You have hampton bay, $29 chinese crap, to hunter, $500. If your builder put in the cheap stuff, that's on him. If you picked out the cheapest there was, that's on you. If you were building the house you could have gone to any of the wholesaler and bought the stuff wholesale for a lot cheaper then HD OR bought the higher grade. Bought a piece of copper piping from a wholesaler for $2.50 that Hd wanted $7.50 for. The little piece that had gone bad that was galvanized iron, HD wanted $2 or $3, the wholesaler had brass, much better, wouldn't have gone bad, for the same price. The sad state of affairs in the US today is, the AVERAGE American doesn't want to pay for quality, he wants to pay for the cheapest he can find.