Lumber prices
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Topic: Lumber prices
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Subject: Lumber prices
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2022 at 7:20pm
| Today I bought 50 sheets of 7/16 OSB for $62.50 a piece and (35) 1x12x16’ western cedar for $104.00 a piece. |
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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2022 at 7:25pm
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you must have won a lottery !!! that's just plain nuts ! I thought prices were coming down ?? same OSB here is $58 cdn, so 50$ USD ??
------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2022 at 7:48pm
Not for me but a customer. |
jaybmiller wrote:Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2022 at 8:01pm
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I dont think i could pay $100. for a 1 x 12... thats just CRAZY ! ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: Randy WI
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2022 at 8:27pm
| It is a good time to own a saw mill . Randy Woodmizer LT 28 |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2022 at 9:15pm
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Well, we finally finished up the big re-shingling job on my house,,and it's a dang good thing I had bought all the materials I thought I was gonna need 3 months ago,,,,until the Carpenter asked me yesterday if I wanted to replace a piece of soffett that was kinda krappy, so I told him I would run to lumber yard and get some,,,,,IMAGINE my utter SHOCK when the dude at lumber yard told me they had been out for 3 months,,so, I told him to give me a 4'X 8'X 1/2" OSB for now,,, He tells me that will be $96 plus tax,,,I asked him to check price as I just wanted ONE sheet of OSB, not a whole friggin truck load!!!! By this time , I've got the attention of several customers and all with this shocked look ,,,I again asked the dude to recheck the price and he told me and everyone else ,,,"The Friggin Price is $96 plus tax" I told him I was going to Lowes in C-Bad even with the $3.98 gasoline, I could still save money. I call Lowes and their price was,,,,,,,,,$84 !!! Guess I'm gonna have the carpenter treat the soffet with some KILZ and let it go,,,,
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Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2022 at 9:23pm
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I know someone who put his house build on hold because just the lumber was going to be $200k. It's crazy right now. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2022 at 1:59am
| i still gits most of my lumber outta dumpsters! |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2022 at 5:19am
That is my greatest worry. I can’t see how more aren’t putting projects on hold. I’m on a fairly good project with sound owners right now. Might have a year or more of work left. I’m concerned what happens after that. |
Posted By: Morpar55
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2022 at 5:59am
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The thing I have noticed is while construction lumber prices have gone crazy hardwood lumber prices haven't gone up nearly so much. Depending upon the area it may be a lot cheaper to build using ash or poplar instead of pine. Plywood is in the same boat too. Hardwood plywood hasn't gone up nearly to the level of the construction grade stuff, and it is generally better plywood too. Glad I have a pretty decent wood supply for upcoming projects though! ------------- 1959 AC D17 Gas with some updates |
Posted By: fixer1958
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2022 at 6:02am
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My youngest son wants a 99 Dodge PU I have. Told him $500 or lumber I need for my back porch roof. 2x6x12 whole bunch of them. That will definitely price him out of that deal. Before Covid I bought some siding underlayment. OSB covered on 1 side some green coating, Zip I think is what it is. Good stuff. Paid $25 a sheet for it from Lowes. I needed some more and got online and they had it for $1.99 but I had to buy 90 some sheets. Online only. I jumped on that with both feet. I ended up with about 70 and still have about 35 sheets left
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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2022 at 6:59am
| You'd think stuff would be put on hold, cancelled altogether, people living in vans down by the river......and yet it keeps going. Around here, a good builder might come available in 2-3 years! And what's prices going to be then? |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2022 at 7:03am
We’re 2 to 3 years out also. I just don’t know how long it will last. I ordered windows for two small jobs Before thanksgiving. Just got them yesterday. Ordered two mini splits this week that are twice what they were last summer from the same place. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2022 at 7:35am
I don't know how long any of this will last, heck, I don't even know what direction it going. I mean, I know what direction it is going in this moment, but overall, where are we going to be in 2-3-5 years? Everything is so crazy. While fighting the weather every step of the way this fall trying to get my crops in, I hadn't gotten around to cutting any firewood yet, going to run on propane until I finished harvest. 5:00 am one Saturday early December, the wife was getting ready for work, "I have no hot water for my shower." Wonderful. I go in the basement to do the resetting procedure that used to work for that issue.......no go. Hmm. So, called a service guy. He says, "better cut some firewood, your control board is out." Now's where it gets interesting. New board was $3400 and I could get it maybe by April! He then told me about a court house a couple counties away that he was working on a rooftop unit, patching a heat exchanger that needed replacing. He fixed it, but asked for a quote on a replacement. They told him they could quote it until January. He's like, what the heck difference does a month make? No.....January 2023, because the replacement delivery wouldn't be until May of 2023! Year and a half to get a heat exchanger made, meanwhile it's being held together by patchwork! Start thinking about all the stuff that needs repaired/ replaced, and these issues, seems we're just at the tip of the iceberg and stuff could literally start falling apart around us. Crazy crazy.
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Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2022 at 7:49am
Tbone construction is all I know. I can’t even fathom farming costs at this point in time. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2022 at 8:12am
| Just keep on keeping on my friend. It's all we can do. |
Posted By: WF owner
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2022 at 6:03am
| I bought 4 sheets of 7/16" OSB at a local lumberyard for $17.95 / sheet last week. Home Depot was $18.95 / sheet, |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2022 at 3:47am
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Yard here is finally receiving supplies ordered months ago, backlog seems to have tripped off where so too the building boom. Older homes all rehabbed are still selling well here, rehabber units are languishing as prices just do not justify. Empty lots are bought and sold like investments yet do not produce windfalls as depicted by some. |
Posted By: Bob D. (La)
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2022 at 4:56am
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Glad my job is small. Needed a sheet of 3/8ths treated. 67.62 out the door. ------------- When you find yourself in a hole,PUT DOWN THE SHOVEL!!! |