O'Donnell Ace Hardware

It’s my first go-to place for any hardware, paint, tools, furnace filters, lightbulbs, etc. The best part is that there’s always someone available to help me with what I am looking for. Also online ordering and curbside pick works great.

Very helpful staff that really are knowledgeable about their products and have good ideas to try for alternatives! Thanks for always having smiles on your faces & being so helpful, I send a lot of people your way because of it!

Always greeted by staff offering to help. An easy in and out for little things rather than dealing with the traffic to get to the big box store, especially when its for some single item oddity you need. They have saved the day several times for me, last trip it was a pair of set screws for a 40 year old sewing machine and today it was a spark plug for my snow blower to get it running again.

This is the best store in Ames. When you're like "I need one of those little thingies but I don't remember what they're called" they always know what you mean. And they have a surprisingly great selection of kitchen equipment including canning supplies.

SUPER-HELPFUL: A guy in the repair center offered to help me get an old chimney brush attached to an adapter on a 12ft extension pole. He drilled the holes and found the bolts and nuts that I needed and put them on for me (Less than a dollar worth of parts!). Thanks ACE! This really helped me solve my problem (I was going to resort to duct taping the parts together).