December 21, 2011

SPAX brand?  Oh yes!  I'm a bit embarrassed to admit I hadn't known of SPAX until Home Depot started carrying a few of their products.  Once I tried them it was over, they are the best.  Probably at least 90% of what's available in the marketplace is just lousy crap compared to SPAX brand fasteners. 

The big-box home improvement stores as well as the small-box home improvement stores have isles of fasteners of various types and sizes that are manufactured cheaply in China to make a buck at the retail as well as corporate levels.  "Screw the end user (pun intended), they'll never know the difference."  Well there is a very big difference and this end user has decided to let everybody know about it. 

What happened to quality, honestly caring and making sure you're delivering the best quality to your customers?  Huh?  Well SPAX didn't fall prey to the oh-too-common lazy+greed combo plummeting work ethic.  It's disgusting how some companies sell you products of a bad quality, as they smile to you and accept your money. 

SPAX is awesome!  What a pleasure it is to purchase and use their products.  When I buy their screws and lags they ALWAYS exceed my expectations.  If you are a builder reading this, heads-up!  Make a big fuss with your supplier to make them carry SPAX brand fasteners!  Spell it for them since they're probably falling into the lazy+greed combo mode that too much of the deteriorating U.S. workforce has become infected with! 

Once you use SPAX brand fasteners you'll never go back!  Sure they're a little bit more expensive, but you get what you pay for.  Get the cheap garbage lags and screws from China and let your conscience know without a doubt that you're giving your customers crap that's designed and manufactured to fail prematurely.  That's the truth.  We all claim to want the truth right?  Well there it is!  Tell your supplier to get full of plenty of SPAX brand lags and screws, and don't forget to spell it for them!

Then never settle for anything less than SPAX brand lags and screws.  You can use it as leverage to sell your jobs.  Specify SPAX brand screws and/or lags in your job proposals.  Show them a sample and point out to them that they're made in Germany!  Then they'll get it, since they will remember BMW and Mercedes are made in Germany and they're about top of the line in their fields too.  Isn't it just too odd that the land of Hitler is now finally setting a good example?  And that Autobahn concept just rocks if you ask me!  Too bad the U.S. is too screwed up for us to get our own autobahn, right?

Here's a specific fact!  SPAX brand lag bolts are at least ten-times stronger than the made-in-China garbage lag bolts of the same and even slightly larger size, that your big-box and small-box home improvement store happily sells you with a smile!  Don't buy 'em.  I've had to be careful not to break those garbage lag bolts during installation for years, what an unnecessary pain!  I just freely sink those SPAX brand lags all the way until they bottom!  They never break!  And they're much harder to make strip out the wood cavity than the garbage crappy ones too!  What a huge difference!

I see the need to clarify something here.  I like China and I love Chinese people.  Many products from China are great.  It's the individual circumstances and details thereof that you must discern.  Certainly China has companies that manufacture screws and lag bolts of high quality steel.  They're just not generally on most of the shelves here where most of us shop. 

If you're a builder then bypass your supplier until they carry enough SPAX brand products for your jobs, and let them know it! 

If you're a supplier, well, it's time to give your customers an honest product as far as lag bolts and screws are concerned.  You are not trapped into only carrying just the crappy garbage lag bolts and screws from China, sold to you with a smile, right?

And if you're a customer, the understanding now should be firmly established.  Call me and I will build it right!