ReSource

If I didn’t buy stuff here occasionally… would a been less than 1 star…
They have some good values on the stuff they are selling.
The donation process is completely whacked. The website is useless for what they will take.
I recently called to see if they would take a medicine chest and bath light. Both were in good condition. The website said that they would accept these sorts of items. The guy on the phone said they would take them. The fool at the drop off picked off the metal base of the light, and said that the medicine chest was in good condition… but they would not take it.
So…don’t bother donating, these folks are not serious.

I’ve been continuing to go here and am (half the time) amazed at what kind of thrift store type shopping is available here too! I bought a bike the other day — needed TLC of course. If you are an avid thrift store bandit, be sure to make this one of your stops!

amazing deals. rude staff. Try elsewhere first

In searching for some 8×8 tile for a décor craft project, I found the size discontinued by most manufacturers. I was referred here from a quality tile store not far down the road.
What a place, used and hand crafted household parts, tools, all sorts of stuff. It is part of Boulder Eco-​Cycle and attached to the lot that takes electronics, batteries and other hard to recycle items.
I had forgotten that my contractor on one of my last upgrade projects had taken my old doors here. It is a large winding place and I was directed to a warehouse for the tile. Boxes and boxes of unused leftover tile from «zillions» of other homeowners projects were semi organized on large shelves and tables. They were roughly organized by size and color but it was still a hunt and peck operation. Unfortunately, the light is poor so color is hard to judge. Also, most of the 8×8’s were at a level I could not completely reach and there were no step stools. Next time I will take my own, so I get to pick through the whole selection.
Though I only needed one immediately, I found 4 random and different tiles that I thought might work so I bought them all to have a choice or to use for another purpose later. They only cost 35 cents each! Can you imagine that?

This may be a great resource if you want to buy something cheap — but not so great if you are actually donating. I was very disappointed with the customer service I received at Resources today when my husband and I dropped off left over construction material at their Boulder location. The young man who was helping us had an attitude that I can only describe as «bitchy». It is fine that not everything was accepted, but the manner in which we were treated actually felt disrespectful. After donating quite a bit of materials, we were not even told thank you. Unfortunately it is experiences like this that leave me feeling like I will not be a repeat customer. We had a friend lend us her truck to drop off things for free that they will then resell and we were treated like a burden. Wow.

Organization with a great idea but unfortunately operated by extremely rude, unknowledgeable, and unhelpful people.

ReSource is fantastic. Its as if they transported my dad’s garage/​basement from kansas, and supersized it. Seriously, the makings for just about any project can be found in their vast lumberyard… and everything’s such a steal too. Grab an armload of wood, plunk down your couple bucks, and get to building!

I was remodeling our kitchen & bought a complete set of ductwork for the kitchen vent hood for the same price as homelessdepot charged me for an 8″ round starter piece. The place in amazing, I find myself going here before every project. The people who work here are very cool & are doing a great service to this area, keeping loads of cool stuff out of the landfill, after all they don’t build em like they use to. Oh they also have new stuff too…

Flippers and bargain hunters pay attention! ReSource 2000 is an architectural salvage mecca. What’s that mean? When homeowners, businesses, contractors or whoever are remodeling or demolishing their buildings, the contents that are salvageable and reusable can be donated here. They are then sold for cheap to you, the bargain hunting flipper!
We just dropped off some Hunter Douglas honeycomb blinds, and were thrilled and dismayed: thrilled by all the products they had and dismayed by all the stuff we threw out from our remodel that could have been recycled, like our carpet and some truly hideous light fixtures that someone would have loved! Plus it’s all tax-​deductible since they are a non-​profit.
Some notable finds were table size granite pieces, nice windows, great carved doors, a back yard pond, toilets and sinks. Check it out before you go spend a pretty penny elsewhere!

This last time I ventured to the exiting world of Resource, I got these old tin railroad signs that I turned into funky clocks, I almost bought a new toilet seat, but the salesperson said that I had to buy the entire toilet.
Resource is an amazing reclaimed materials heaven right outside Boulder… I know it doesn’t want to be, but it is still a little secret in the world of thrifters…
Think of Resource as an adoption center for building materials… The materials are deconstructed from barely used home, second home, and third home renovations or remodels and donated to Resource. Resource is an amazing refuge for old/​used windows and window frames, bathroom and kitchen cabinets, doors of all sorts, wood flooring, ripped out stoves and kitchen cabinets and sometimes if you are lucky, lone toilet seats.
The Construction and Demolition Waste program of Boulder’s Center for Resource Conservation (CRC) helps scared building materials escape the scary landfill. CRC does this by making sure contractors have easy access to recycling the materials in compartmentalized trailers on job sites.
The money earned from Resource goes in circles and pays for maintaining Resource itself and maintaining educational programs.
Strategy: Sign up to receive the «ReSource Material Alerts» so that you are one of the first to know when special goodies are donated and waiting to be purchased.
No truck for that new door? No problem, Resource offers delivery!
* Star one is for creating this used building material orphanage in general… And with a stunning Flatirons view!
** Our used star number two is for offering another place for me to go shopping
*** Cool cat star three goes to ReSource’s manager, Mc Caren Avalon… Informative, friendly, and fun
**** Shout out star number four is for ReSource’s hidden location… Which always creates an adventure for me
***** Our final and last star goes to ReSource for being another stop for flippers and greenies alike