Center Hardware & Supply Company

Husband came here to check out the Veto Pro Packs. They had a few contractor series but didn’t carry the tech series. He purchased a nice contractor series and is happy with it. Lots of materials. They carry all the Klein tools. Wish they had more high end electrician hand tools. My husband likes to go in person to buy tools and accessories for real working men. Nowadays, people order online. Almost all unique items must be ordered online because stores don’t supply them. It’s nice that places such as this are around. A real store for real working professionals. Good service. Pretty sweet pulling up and parking right in front. They don’t make em like they used to.

I’m starting a business down the street and came here to find a specific size washer for a button on a piece of equipment I was trying to macgyver. Pete was beyond helpful and patient and helped search for the right piece! The customer service here is great!

I wish that there was a 6^th star or — maybe even a 7^th star!
Center Hardware is as good as it can possibly be. It really IS the best hardware store in the City! Everyone on their staff is very knowledgeable. I have been doing a lot of remodeling on my house on Potrero Hill. My contractors or subs who haven’t already heard about/​been to Center — love it. And I can go to Center — with a very small — and/​or very unique requirement — and/​or bring in a picture — and the staff will do everything they can to find it or order it.
Linda

Center hardware

The best hardware store in the city, in my opinion. They have pretty much everything, and what they don’t have (a rare occurrence) they can order. There’s a huge aisle of screw, bolt, and parts trays. Another aisle, a quarter of it just for construction screws.
People used to say that they’re expensive but actually they’re not — pretty much competitive with any hardware and often beat them pricewise. The main thing is they pretty much always have it, whether it’s electrical, plumbing, abrasives, paint, glue, caulk, tools, etc. etc.

Purchased an evaporated cooler from this place on 6 262 015 the item is no longer manufactured 92 715 and you can not get parts for this evaporated cooler. I paid over 500 dollars for this item and Grainger could care less for their customers after 30 days. they only warranty the products you buy for 30 days over thirty days you’re on your own!!!

Center hardware has got to be one of the finest, all encompassing, and well organized hardware stores that I have ever been to… and I’ve been to quite a few hardware stores from new York to LA and just about every state between.
They carry top quality merchandise with a selection /​variety that cannot be topped anywhere inside San Francisco city limits!
The staff members are always curious, quick to respond, and extremely knowledgeable.
I love this store!

Amazing hardware store. The staff is super friendly and knowledgeable. And they have a wide selection of products.

Staff are extremely helpful and the store has an impressive selection. I was in need of a unique item — Hank and Cameron spent a lot of time helping me determine requirements and even did some custom cutting of steel plates, so basically I got 2 custom parts — really great.

In a wild goose chase to find a very obscure light bulb all the way across the country, Pete from Center Hardware was the best help and positive figure I could have found. With a tight timeline, Pete agreed to help me locate the bulb and called back within 24 hours with multiple sources to get lightbulbs. Though it turned out that the lightbulb could not be ordered outside of the manufacturer, Pete gave me all the details to finding the lightbulb including links and phone numbers to my closest bets on acquiring it.
I highly recommend working with these people who go out of their way to help you get what you need. Thanks Pete!

This neighborhood hardware store is exactly the right place for almost any household project. I went in there needing some screws and was floored by how large the site actually is. They have anything you could need and the staff is very knowledgeable and friendly. They pride themselves on having the largest selection and even carry some hard to find items. If you are contemplating making a run to a large retailer — first come here.

Go to Amazon. This place has a terrible return policy and is a supreme hassle to work with. The «never wrong» management live in a cave treat shoppers as prey.
Shop online and you will have a digital trail, economy of scale and you can avoid the long faces at the counter. Never again. i shopped here 30 years. i am born in the city. i know all about their great selection.
Online has a better selection and better prices…

For those of you who give value to the quality of your neighborhood to make sure your property investment does not end up sliding into a aesthetically, crime riddled near slum neighborhood as is the case in areas outside the parameters of Potrero Hill, always patronize those private small businesses which add not detract from upgrading the qualify of life. Center Hardware is an invaluable neighborhood institution.
Center Hardware, admittedly, may not carry as much as Lowe’s, or have to charge a couple dollars more on some items, but this hardware store is a major, valuable neighborhood asset on many levels which Lowe’s will never achieve. The help at Lowe’s, aside from a handful, are merchandise dumb and mostly inexperienced in how hardware tools are even used. The staff at Center Hardware know their stuff and always informatively helpful which is worth the extra dollar I pay for tools or other items. Each is friendly, cooperative, super respectful and appreciative of especially regular seen customers. Although a very traditional feminine woman who has to save money by doing many handyman repairs herself, staff and management at Center Hardware have always been cordial and helpful. The family friendly atmosphere really does exist at this place including exchange of humor if you have one. The personal regard and attention cannot be had from Lowe’s. Enter Hardware building is clean and well organized inside and outside. I have in the past made product suggestions and then a few months later I find those products I suggested. Lowe’s just sells whatever is convenient regardless if it is not compatible to the typical preferences of customers around the neighborhoods.
There is another one as reliable as this one where it still has employees who used to work for the previous hardware location which Lowe’s replaced, but I am focusing on the one in my neighborhood. It actually deserve more than five stars.

shit hours

Great place. Very friendly people open on Saturday is a plus. Scene you have to work during the week. They have just about anything thing you need.

People talk about this place like it’s some kind of promised land that sells everything you could ever want to find in a hardware store, but it’s really just a big ACE. More often than not they don’t actually have anything I need, and it’s not altogether uncommon for them to not even have any idea what I’m talking about. 18 gauge stainless steel brads? What? A decent tap wrench? Nope. Butyl caulk? Try another castle.
They do have a lot of screws, so they got that going for them, but I invariably end up ordering from McMaster-​Carr every time I decide to give Center another shot. If they weren’t right next to the 280 entrance on my way home from work, I don’t think I’d ever bother.

Love this place. I have almost never failed to find what I need here and the staff are knowledgeable and personable. I actually get excited to come here and speculate about all the projects that I will probably never do but totally could with the help of this hardware store.

This is a great hardware store — they have everything you could need and the staff are extremely knowledgeable and helpful, whether you have a plumbing problem or are just looking for some paper towels.

They do have almost everything you need! Come this place first before you go somewhere else!!!

Center Hardware is a local supply store without all of the attitude. The employees know their stuff and when you’re struggling to find a specific part just ask away. Chances are they know where to direct you.
I usually get my keys made here as they’re only $ 1.50/key and they’ve worked every time. The line gets a bit confusing so just jump in when you can and ask questions. I don’t think you’ll want for anything in this store.