Thread: Group Buy - 2" Foam, Charlotte NC

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Anyone in the Charlotte NC area interested in going together to buy some 2" pink owens corning foam sheets?

I checked with Lowes and they will order it for $30.41 +tax a sheet, depending on the number of sheets ordered the price may be lower.

Just trying to gage interest, as I am tired of gluing up 3/4" sheets to get the desired thickness.

If you interested post a reply and indicate how many sheets you would want, this is not a committment just an expression of interest. if there is enough interest then we can proceed from there.

man i would love to get some of that here (coastal tx)---all i can get is 3/4.

Home Depot sells it for $25 and change. Have you called around?

Like many areas in the south Lowes and Homedepot don't stock anything thicker then
3/4"...but thanks for the heads up I'll get a price from HD as Lowes has a price guarentee.

I live in South Georgia, FYI.

Just as an FYI, there is a "styrofoam" shop here that buys & stocks pieces up to 4' thick. They have the huge hot-wire cutters that make 100 pieces of crown molding out of 1 block. I stopped by there on day - very impressive work. They had just bought a huge CNC (?) - a 3D carving maching, but hadn't fired it up yet. Anyways... they told me if I ever needed anything thicker than Lowes stocks (2"), just give them a call. If they don't have the thickness I need laying around, they'll slice one off a larger block.

I can't imagine they are unique. Check around - there might be something like that around where you live. Check with building contractors that might use them for custom facade & elevation work.

Also, I found another distributor that sells construction-grade styrofoam panels (for under poured concrete slabs). I bought some 4" thick panels (for my Tiki Statues http://www.starkmadness.com/photos/d...album=20&pos=1), but they were very dense & a little heavier than the stuff at Lowes.

Yes, I know, Styrofoam is a trade name, but I can never remember the name of the generic material, other than "white stuff" (as opposed to "pink stuff").

Don't know if this is too late but I saw 2" Owens Corning pink foam for $24 at the Home Depot in Greensboro, NC.