#163: Live from the Builders' Show: Home Depot’s Pro Services and Advancements in Cordless Tools

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🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The editors chat with Debbie Hernandez of The Home Depot about it’s pro services and former Fine Homebuilding editor Chris Ermides about tools.

Justin Fink and Rob Wotzak talk with Home Depot’s Debbie Hernandez about Professional and Contractor Services and with former Fine Homebuilding editor Chris Ermides about tool tests, keeping up with tool technology, and how job sites are increasingly going 100% cordless.

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0:00.0	Turn on your vacuum with the battery when you press the trigger.
0:09.4	I want the one that will tell me so that when I'm home, I can go, did I shut off the compressor?
0:14.2	Because that's the one that, like, where I go, did I?
0:17.9	I'm sure this probably. You probably, yeah.
0:19.8	Like, can't they just put, like like a little red light on the compressors?
0:27.7	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the fine home building podcast.
0:30.1	We are at day three of the International Builders Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.
0:34.7	You are probably shocked to hear me on this podcast. Justin Fink, I haven't been on in
0:39.2	a while. I am here today with a special guest from Home Depot. Thank you. Debbie Hernandez.
0:44.5	Give me your store number again because I can't keep it. I'm 6210 in my days of Home Depot glory.
0:50.3	I'm in 0475. That's right. We'll have to compare store number tattoos later.
0:56.1	Pretty far on the spectrum of the nation.
0:58.7	Yeah.
1:00.1	You're in Phoenix, Arizona?
1:02.0	Well, the store's in Glendale.
1:03.5	I live in Phoenix, yeah.
1:04.7	Okay.
1:05.2	And we are going to be talking today with you about some of the great services that Home Depot offers. Is that,
1:11.8	is that right? That is correct. All right. So I know that there has been a very strong focus on
1:18.4	pros lately with Home Depot. So can you give us just the real outline of the, some of the services
1:25.6	that are offered? I mean, some of our audience may still
1:29.3	be treating Home Depot as kind of pop in on the weekend to get the nuts and bolts we need to
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