Need a good substitute for Homisode or a place i haven’t thought of to buy some. Checked Home Depot and they don’t carry it (which surprised me) Lowe’s sells it but not at any store with in 150 mile and won’t special order it for anything less then a stack. and the local lumber yards rarely carry it too. Running out of places in the phone book.
Had that experience. Lowes and HD don’t carry it at all, but I found a local lumber yard that did. It’s “Homasote.” Maybe the mfr’s web site listed dealers.
I can’t recommend any substitute but you might check the Homasote web site. You can call the sales rep in your region and find out where (if) it is carried in your area.
Good luck!
It’s odd that Home Depot doesn’t carry it as around here it’s the only place that does. And the funny thing is they make it right here in Trenton NJ
Try the link I provided below this guy has the nock on Homasote, he takes out all the mess and dust associated with cutting Homasote and send you ready to use uniform pieces of sub roadbed mainline or branch line roadbed plus a lit of other stuff.
Thanks for the help, yeah i typed Homasote in thinking it was correct and got nothing and Homisode was the correction on one site i got. Found their web site did realize it was only made by one company thought it was manufactured by many companies. The find a retailer section basically spit a list of place out which most are places i already called and even Home Depot is in the list which is odd. I know it varies from place to place and retailer but roughly about how much does a 4’x8’ piece cost?
Homasote is the correct spelling. I have seen it in Home Depot here in York, PA, but not in Lowe’s. I do not recall pecisely, but I believe the price was $27+ for a 1/2" thick 4’x8’. When I lived in Syracuse, NY, I got it at a “regular” lumber yard, and they cut it into pieces for me.
Homasote Company–
–says there are six dealers handling Homasote® withing ten miles of the center of ZIP 14120. It also gives instructions for how to get ahold of the company’s field representative if you still can’t find it.
When I was in the Air Force and particularly when I was in a missile squadron at Moses Hole…er.r.r ah Lake. . . . . . . . . . old habits die hard . . . . . . . . . . we used to get electronic drawers padded with this stupid gray stuff which went in the trash; I probably threw a couple of hundred square feet of this stuff away before I learned what it was.
Be that as it may when I was preparing to build my first post-Air Force career layout in 1978-79 I went looking for this stuff. The only dealer handling it in the Phoenix area would only sell it in pallet lots so-o-o-o-o-o a bunch of us got together, ordered a pallet, and divied up the load paying based upon what we used. If memory serves me my first three sheets cost me less than thirty smackers. When I made my last purchase over ten years ago now the price had risen to about eighteen bucks a sheet but I could now get it in individual sheets from building material centers.
Like i said above already called all but one on the list (the first one). They told me they don’t carry it (though they might of at one time.) or that they rarely if ever get any in. The one i didn’t call i know where it is (closest one to me) just didn’t know it’s a lumber yard since all the lumber is stored all indoors. Thanks for the heads up on the price now i won’t drop over when i see or hear the price.
I was able to get a product at Ace called “builder board”. They had never heard of Homasote.