Hurling a sledgehammer at the dry wall is a handy way to add storage space for a growing collection of books, beanie babies, or sledgehammers. Stock up for all manner of household improvements with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of tools and more at Koontz Hardware in West Hollywood.

Housing a menagerie of home improvement implements and constructive constructables, Koontz Hardware's helpful handymen hawk repair-ready wares from this West Hollywood building bazaar. Restoration-minded repairmen and repairwomen can comb through the expansive recesses of Koontz's 100,000-piece inventory, replenishing depleted toolboxes with new essentials ranging from tape measures (starting at $8.99) and dish towels ($5.99), to paint brushes (starting at $1.99) and electrical outlet travel adaptors ($4.99–$8.99). Spruce up dinged desks and furniture with touch-up pens (starting at $4.99) or help keep loving cups loveable with a squirt of shinifying silver cleaners and polishes (starting at $4.99).

Koontz also features heaps of helpful household goods such as replacement garage-door openers (starting at $24.99), and newly-copied house keys (starting at $1.59) give your flower pots something to conceal besides the neighbor's smaller, more valuable flower pots. Designer keys are also available in styles such as sports teams, Disney, and Hello Kitty. Koontz also has houseware items such as the Bodum french press coffee-maker (starting at $31.99), Takeya glass hydration bottles ($19.99), and Kyocera ceramic knives (starting at $25.99).

With more than six decades of experience under their belt sanders, Koontz's 60 staffers dispense knowledgeable know-how as members of the True Value consortium. Consult team members to fetch out-of-reach inventory from the store's 16-foot-high shelves, or seek out answers to questions regarding assembly, installation, or whether or not caulk can ferment.

Reviews

More than 50 Yelpers give Koontz Hardware an average of 4.5 stars and five Google Mappers give the store a 4.8-star average:

• Koontz also has the most knowledgeable staff I've ever seen in a hardware store. Not only do they know general things, they're acquainted with the products they sell. – Steven N., Yelp, 12/26/10
• They carry almost everything in that tiny space and if they dont [sic] have it they can probably recommend where to get it. Great customer service, and plenty of people there to help you with what you need. – Byron, Google Maps.