bgavin Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 We stopped by Home Depot today. I needed Leviton receptacles and Wrongway was shopping for paint for her She-Cave. Hoooeee momma... sheet goods are priced through the roof. $69 for a sheet of 7/16" OSB (used to be $8). $44 for a sheet of 3/4" MDF (not particle board) that I use to prototype loudspeaker cabinets. Underlayment just under $100 per sheet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seamus McGillicuddy Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 This week’s Mega Millions Lottery prize is a tankfull of gas and a sheet of plywood. Seamus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anvil Al #59168 Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 All lumber is out of sight. Would hate to be trying to build a new house right now. Building cost would be up to much to try it. But they are still building like crazy around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Bill Mathewson, 37826 Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 If you are in the middle of building a house what do you do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 3 minutes ago, Buffalo Bill Mathewson, 37826 said: If you are in the middle of building a house what do you do? Go deeper and deeper in debt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyatt Earp SASS#1628L Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 Read where it costs around $35,000 more just for lumber to build the average house. Didn't say what an average house is, but I assume 3br 2ba around 1800sqft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 Haven't you all heard? Murdering trees ain't part of the Green New Deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan Slim Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 Going to murder a few oaks this weekend for posts. Ought to last a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassnetguy50 Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 Talked to a realtor today. Lots of cancelled builds around here due to increased material cost. Construction workers are in such a shortage around here that the contractors are still busy. Houses are selling by word of mouth before the realtors list them or within a week of listing for asking or a premium price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 Largest builder in this area is not starting any new construction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Lud Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 I was in Alaska last week. Those folks reported Canadian lumber mills completely full of finished board feet to the point they had to take up parking lot space in some...never had higher finished inventories is what they said. They indicated this shortage is an orchestrated response to the keystone cancellation, going to make the US pay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 Interesting that lumber and ammo are all marked up at nearly the same percentages. Ammo is starting to come down and more becomes available every day. The same will happen with lumber and other things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assassin Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 The train runs behind my house. Rail cars are full of lumber and sheet goods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 Toothpicks are out the roof!! Panic! Stock up on toothpicks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 i got toothpicks , but i need a bit of lumber for repairs this summer - seems prices have doubled and dealers are operating on allocations based on past performance in buying and 'paying' , things are a bit in a turmoil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Bullweed Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 2x4x8' southern yellow pine was $2.38 last spring, now is $6.15, if you buy it. Our stupid local govmint just passed a bill to build multi-family apartments for low-income housing. Their budget is probably based on old prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezra Hawthorne Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 12 hours ago, Assassin said: The train runs behind my house. Rail cars are full of lumber and sheet goods. Sounds like it's time to gather up a posse for a modern day Great Train Robbery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grass Range Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 12 hours ago, JD Lud said: I was in Alaska last week. Those folks reported Canadian lumber mills completely full of finished board feet to the point they had to take up parking lot space in some...never had higher finished inventories is what they said. They indicated this shortage is an orchestrated response to the keystone cancellation, going to make the US pay. I doubt if one issue is related to the other Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irish ike, SASS #43615 Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 Construction/housing is one of the key drivers for our economy. When it tanks so goes the economy. Hang on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted May 24, 2021 Author Share Posted May 24, 2021 One of my buds is a surveyor. He says they are the first to go unemployed when the economy is turning down. They are the first to go back to work, when the economy starts to turn up. Considering the price of materials yesterday, I was amazed to see how CROWDED the Home Depot store was. I saw lots of people in line, and with carts, but nobody with sheet goods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 It's slammed the door on my remodeling projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted May 24, 2021 Author Share Posted May 24, 2021 I need to re-do the kitchen subfloor.. it's only 200 sq ft. I'm far more concerned about what this will do to the price of kitchen cabinets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Dog Doug Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 in part of CA they build a few whole new towns that used to be ranch land low interest rates have houses selling fast it has made for alot more work for security guard for all the wood when I was a carpenter in the 80s some one hot wired the job site forklift and stole 2 units of plywood but that was in Oakland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 We here in Canada are also experiencing greatly increased lumber costs, much the same as yours in the US. It is reported to be the result of the pandemic, that our entire supply chain has been disrupted. If an option, I would recommend holding off or delaying any building projects involving the use of lumber, until we get our vaccinations done and start producing again. We are at around 50% first jab in the arm right now and looking at the fall for "Herd Immunity". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assassin Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 7 hours ago, Ezra Hawthorne said: Sounds like it's time to gather up a posse for a modern day Great Train Robbery. Several years back we had a derailment about 5 miles east of our house. 8 cars full of lumber. They salvaged all the sheet goods. The dimensional lumber went to the landfill. People offered to clean it up, and they hired a crew to cut it up and haul it off. Liability! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Duncan Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 23 hours ago, Anvil Al #59168 said: All lumber is out of sight. Would hate to be trying to build a new house right now.... True but a fantastic time to sell. Now if I could just get Mrs Duncan to stop chasing me with that cast iron skillet and listen to reason... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amigo Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 We have done some remodeling around the house the past six months and watched the price of 2x4's steadily rise from project to project. Last week I picked up some steel edging last week as I have started redoing some rock area in the front and was going to replace the old stuff that was put in 25 years ago...stuff ran $19.95 for an 8 foot section and when you overlapped the sections, you actually got 7.3 feet out of it. Needed an additional special stake to tie in two pieces at the overlap...well, I was looking at $130 for the first 29 feet and I had a long way to go. By the next morning, I decided to return the stuff I bought and just stick with reusing the old stuff. Gas is up just over 30% since last December here...picked up some 5.7x28mm ammo for my son just today and that stuff was up to $42. Even 9mm is expensive. I really don't think the prices are going to go back down to the range of where they were back pre-covid: too much money printing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan Slim Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 I've said before that we need a good depression to give people perspective. I think we hired just the people to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waxahachie Kid #17017 L Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 Looks like this has not hit our town yet. They are building houses, here, as fast, and as many, as they can. Given some time, the house building boom, around here, may slack off. We shall see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozark Shark Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 On 5/23/2021 at 9:02 PM, JD Lud said: I was in Alaska last week. Those folks reported Canadian lumber mills completely full of finished board feet to the point they had to take up parking lot space in some...never had higher finished inventories is what they said. They indicated this shortage is an orchestrated response to the keystone cancellation, going to make the US pay. It's more than Keystone. The Commerce Department with the US lumber producers cheering, are planning to make it worse. Take a read:https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/economic/2021/05/u-s-moves-to-double-tariffs-on-canadian-softwood-lumber-imports Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 43 minutes ago, Ozark Shark said: It's more than Keystone. The Commerce Department with the US lumber producers cheering, are planning to make it worse. Take a read:https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/economic/2021/05/u-s-moves-to-double-tariffs-on-canadian-softwood-lumber-imports WHAT U S lumber producers...? Are there any left? I sincerely hope there are, somewhere... California used to be a major lumber producing state. Not so much, any more... mostly because of that nasty "p" word. [Politics] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 Gasoline prices rising(of course they always do going on Memorial Day). Paid $3.349 for 87 octane today. Two weeks ago is was "only" $3.199! That will also add to the price of transporting lumber, food and anything else that has to go from there to here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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