OK, Harry, I'll start this thread out with the following story....

A good friend (who is an estimator for a very large tile installation company here in VA) used to moonlight at HD a couple of days a week for beer money. We had a ritual where we talked each Saturday afternoon so that he could fill me in on the ridiculous stuff that went on at his store during the last week.

One day he called with his standard greeting: "Z, you're not gonna believe this one...". He was working the aisle and saw a HD employee loading up a ton of thinset onto a cart with a customer. Not seeing any tile on the cart, my friend works his way down to the vicinity of the DIY'er to try to pick up on what the deal was.

He heard the HD Professional telling the DIY'er that "SLC is really nothing more than thinset with extra water in it...just buy the cheap thinset, water it down, and get the same result."

Scary!!

Damn right it's scary. Too little knowledge and too much opportunity to share it.

C'mon Harry...be forthcoming with a story.

Surely a man that has as many HD buckets as you do must have a good story or two.

(I have several more really good one. I just don't want to hog up this thread).

A man came into a tile dealer and said he was having problems with his tile and the installation. He was having trouble with getting the grout lines to stay even. Then he cracked some of his tile as he walked over them. Turns out that the salesman at Home Depot told him that he could lay the tile directly on his wood subfloor. His is of the raised house variety on pilings. Then, he wanted to know what he would be securing the tile to the floor with. Are you ready for this...?...The salesman told him to use...LIQUID NAILS! Ha--Yeah, real cost effective too.

Okay, so it's not the greatest picture in the world, but I originally stole it from Harry's site, so consider the source.

Here he is in all his splendor. Harry Dunbar, the Home Depot bucket expert.

(I think he got a kick-back from HD on this one.)

It's upside down which means anti-Home Depot .... yeah ... that's it.

HA!

You can tell this guy never grouts....his $3.00 knee pads aren't even dirty! :p