Apparently both the Dow blue foam and the Owens Corning pink foam is scarcer than hen’s teeth out here in California. Neither the local Home Depot here in Monterey nor the massive Lowes in Gilroy carries the stuff. In fact, when you ask about it, you generally get blank stares.
Does anyone within a 100 mile radius of Monterey, California know where it can be found? It’s not the kind of item you can order online.
Andre
Do you know anybody that’s a contractor? Or someone that does carpentry and might work with contractors? A contractor or carpenter might know where to get it. Even if it’s not used all that frequently, people like that might have to use it sometimes, and would ahve to get it.
I would try to help you more, but it’s all over the place here… in Pennsylvania!
Sorry,
Kevin
As a matter of fact, I do.
Unfortunately, they’re in Maine.
I know where to get it there.
Thank you for the attempt to help, though.
Andre
It’s usually for sale at the Home Depot in San Jose on Blossom Hill. I’ve also found it at the HD on Hillsdale. But you should call first before driving.
I posted the dealer finder methods a while back
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?page=-1&TOPIC_ID=33554&REPLY_ID=341011#341011
One of my clients found a good deal on a large order somewhere in felton or Scotts Valley that he found by calling one of the Dow Distributors mentioned in the above post.
Thanks. I’ve done that. Dow wants you to call for the info. I’ll do that tomorrow.
Owens Corning lists Home Depot. Unfortunately, the 2 closest Home Depots don’t actually carry it. Like I said, you ask about it and you get blank stares. I have a feeling it’s not used much (if at all) in considerable parts of California.
Andre
Sometimes the independent lumberyards will carry items that the larger chain stores do not. You may want to give them a try.
Jim
Are you nuts??? You can’t use that stuff in California!!! ALL life will cease to exist!!!
Use a wheat germ plaster over a web of tofu and paint it with berry dye.[;)]
(I have vegeterian relatives in San Diego)
You are right. I tried searching for the styrofoam in San Francisco and The Bay Area with no luck. Some clerks looked at me as if I was from another planet when I asked for it. I will try the HD in Hillsdale and San Jose. I hope they carry it.
Andre: As a Native Californian (which means I was here before all the loonies moved in), it is my sad duty to tell you that extruded foam is ‘persona non grata’ here in the Golden State because it contains chemical elements that are dangerous to pregnant Spotted Owls and Snail Darters. In other words, you have to travel to Reno to get it. I have checked EVERYWHERE here in Northern California, and what has been substituted is the Blue Bubble Foam that when used will not only mess up your layout room like crazy, but also require about 2/3 more bracing if you’re using it for a base.
Ah, the ACLU-ers and PC’ers have struck again!!
However, if you ever visit Carmichael, you can be assured that you can be eaten by a Mountain Lion because they’re still considered an Endangered Species.
Ain’t this a great state since the Loonies moved here?
Tom [banghead][banghead]
Andre,
I think that in your neck of the woods of California, extruded foam is actually on the endangered species list - right opposite the page from naugahyde.
It used to be that nauga was plentiful and grazed peaceably at the base of the mighty Sierras. But the white man came along and hunted them to near extinction. I remember a time when manufacturers would actually make couches and chairs out of the skins of these little creatures.
Hopefully, given enough time, the tiny naugas will rebound and once again be able to roam free and prosper, as they once did. (Probably about the same time extrude foam comes back into the region.)
Tom
I see that the Tom’s are not only on the SAME wave length but they’re also on the exact SAME post times - 20:39:24. Now THAT’S pretty scary…[:O]
Tom
Thanks, Byron. We go up 85 to visit my daughter in Redwood City, so calling isn’t really necessary. I’ll just make a little detour.
I plan to call Dow in the morning.
Andre
TStage: BWA-HHAHHHHH!
I happen to own three Naugas, and wouldn’t you know, the PC patrol came by and made me take them to a vet and have them ‘fixed.’ Not only that, but I had to pay the State $150 to have tracers implanted so that if they ever got out, they wouldn’t mix with the few wild Naugas still left in the state and breed. I happened to mention that being neutered kind of solved the problem, but the State wouldn’t listen. All Naugas in California have to have Tracer implants, fixed or not.
And I don’t even want to start in on the Ferrets.
I only want to say this: WILL ALL OF YOU WEIRD, STUPID AND IDIOTIC NON-NATIVE CALIFORNIANS PLEASE MOVE BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM AND LET THIS STATE TRY AND GET BACK TO NORMAL AGAIN!!!
Thank you.
Tom
[soapbox]
TWhite. The only problem with your suggestion is that Mexico isn’t big enough to hold 'em all.
On a more appropriate note, I was told by a supplier here in Sin City that rigid foam is used for foundation insulation in colder climates. Since the last hard freeze in Southern Nevada occurred sometime during the last ice age, it simply isn’t used here. No users, no sources of supply, and they aren’t about to special order a quantity too small to insulate a casino!
Woah…That truly is scary…[:0][:p] It’s the end of the world as we know it…And I feel fine.[;)]
I’m a native my self - A product of LAUSD education (when it used to be sort of OK). The cost of living will drive out all the non natives.
Extruded foam isn’t usually found in the warmer climates, since you don’t really have a need to keep the bitter cold out.
Andre!!! No one asked you to leave maine where there is so much blue and pink foam that you could float across to England. LOL
We’re going back in April.
Then coming here in November
Then going back in April…
Andre