Re: Have you priced building materials lately ?
[Re: 5thAve]
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08/25/20 03:16 PM
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Yeah the missus and I had a vacation trip planned for our 25th anniversary. But when the Covid shut everything down we decided to build a pergola for the back yard using some of the money from the trip.
Had to go to three different lumber yards here in town to find enough clear rough-cut cedar to do the job--and that was back in late April. Things were already getting tight.
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Re: Have you priced building materials lately ?
[Re: tboomer]
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08/25/20 04:19 PM
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Its always been a good time to sell old barn wood, the yippies love it.
Ive 3 skids of OSB, one skid of 3/4 advantech? locking decking and 400 framing 2x4-s and a 100 8 footers I bought 3.5 years ago stored cool, indoors and covered. .... im fixin to hit CL and sell by the sheet and stick.
Mopar parts money there.
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Re: Have you priced building materials lately ?
[Re: Stanton]
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Come on now, we still have our freedoms right? If someone wants to build a house 2x the size they need and can afford it and pay the bills thats great, better then 4 1000sq ft welfare homes on the tax payers dime. I blame the builders. If they built reasonably sized homes instead of the maximum allowable on the lot there would be more materials available. I honestly don't know who is buying those things or why. There are subdivisions around here with 4000 sq. ft. homes on postage stamp sized lots - so close the gutters touch. The day the new owners move in there's a "room for rent" sign at the curb!
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Re: Have you priced building materials lately ?
[Re: Mr PotatoHead]
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08/25/20 04:41 PM
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Its always been a good time to sell old barn wood, the yippies love it.
Ive 3 skids of OSB, one skid of 3/4 advantech? locking decking and 400 framing 2x4-s and a 100 8 footers I bought 3.5 years ago stored cool, indoors and covered. .... im fixin to hit CL and sell by the sheet and stick.
Mopar parts money there. Parts money...Great idea!
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Re: Have you priced building materials lately ?
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08/25/20 05:23 PM
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Have you priced new homes lately
YIKES Around here a brick ranch will only stay on the market for a few hours to a few days. People are very ready to pay asking price and more. My son just sold a house that was on the market for less than a week and it was priced at 479k. It is crazy around here right now with both building materials and real estate. He is planning on building a house this year and the cost has already gone up 15% in one month. Ouch! Yep! Stuff sells in hours around here. My buddy is an agent.....can't find $250k houses to sell. He listed a $300k ranch on a postage stamp lot last Sat morning.....had an accepted offer by noon. I live in a subdivision of 2000 sq ft homes on acre lots. Most are in the $250k range.....IF one goes on the market...it's gone before they get the sign up.....and usually for over asking price.....crazy!! I know 4 people that sold homes this summer all sold in 1 or 2 days for asking price or above. Prices ranged from $400k to $750k. Lady across the street sold her house 3 times in 1 month. Houses over $1M + are actually losing value around here.
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Re: Have you priced building materials lately ?
[Re: cudatom]
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08/25/20 11:38 PM
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Must depend on where you live. I'd tend to agree after reading some of the responses here. pretty much no shortage of building mat'l here on the right coast, I do my home repairs/remodeling so I see the base/mat'l costs only, and honestly while everything increases gradually in price, home building mat'l costs here haven't really been all that outrageous, and all the lumber yards/home box stores that I've patronage for the last 25+ years are always fully stocked..... about the only shortages/price gouge we see is plywood during hurricane season
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Re: Have you priced building materials lately ?
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08/26/20 11:18 AM
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...Canada closed it's border to the US, tariffs on lumber imports
... The border is not closed to commerce, just to non essential travel. Now, the tariffs, that's a whole different story. I have always been of the opinion that the only beneficiary of them is the government. The actual cost is a burden only to the end user. The government rakes in fees, the middlemen adjust their wholesale prices to maintain their profits, and the end user (you and me) pay for it all.
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Re: Have you priced building materials lately ?
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08/26/20 02:05 PM
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[ The government rakes in fees, the middlemen adjust their wholesale prices to maintain their profits, and the end user (you and me) pay for it all. Not sure i exactly agree, they markup for a profit all their material costs, and if that includes a tariff, it also is in included in the markup. Its not overly disclosed, but that's business, make it anywhere you can. Puiblic always gets it in the end.
Reality check, that half the population is smarter then 50% of the people and it's a constantly contested fact.
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Re: Have you priced building materials lately ?
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08/29/20 11:37 AM
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I work in commercial construction. Some of the delays in stupid stuff like light fixtures is crazy. I have read that the lack of inventory will ease up by November/December, but I doubt we will see much of any reduction in prices.
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Re: Have you priced building materials lately ?
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08/29/20 11:57 AM
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I work in commercial construction. Some of the delays in stupid stuff like light fixtures is crazy. I have read that the lack of inventory will ease up by November/December, but I doubt we will see much of any reduction in prices. We ordered our light fixtures 2 months ago, and were told 1-2 weeks. Not only do we still not have them, they haven't even made it to the US warehouse. We were just told now the arrival date is 9/7, which means we won't likely have them for 1-2 weeks after that. Just checked again on the stove/fridge we ordered, no ETA. Flooring is supposed to be 9/1, but that's not going to happen, I don't think. Furniture, we ordered 7/4, and were told 6 weeks. On Thursday, they called and said "sometime in October."
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Re: Have you priced building materials lately ?
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08/30/20 09:36 PM
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Last weekend I went buy some 3/4 plywood for a work table project. $45 a sheet for just just basic pine. I paid $33 in June. This week I had to buy some osb to board the windows for the hurricane.....$23 a sheet usually $12 or less..2x4s over $4. It’s nuts.
I can’t imagine the cost to actually build a house now. Hope you made it thru this one better than Rita. You're right about the OSB. I was in Home Depot the other day for something, and noticed the price for 7/16 osb was almost $17 a sheet when there wasn't even a tropical system on the water! I paid $6 a sheet when I built my garage in 2007!
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Re: Have you priced building materials lately ?
[Re: not_a_charger]
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09/01/20 08:41 AM
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I work in commercial construction. Some of the delays in stupid stuff like light fixtures is crazy. I have read that the lack of inventory will ease up by November/December, but I doubt we will see much of any reduction in prices. We ordered our light fixtures 2 months ago, and were told 1-2 weeks. Not only do we still not have them, they haven't even made it to the US warehouse. We were just told now the arrival date is 9/7, which means we won't likely have them for 1-2 weeks after that. Just checked again on the stove/fridge we ordered, no ETA. Flooring is supposed to be 9/1, but that's not going to happen, I don't think. Furniture, we ordered 7/4, and were told 6 weeks. On Thursday, they called and said "sometime in October." Doors and door hardware are really crazy lead times right now, too. Steel doors, fire doors, wood--all have unusually long lead times.
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Re: Have you priced building materials lately ?
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Our gas range died two days ago. Yesterday we started shopping, and almost everything is out of stock with no date. We bought one that might be delivered in late October, but I don't have a good feeling about that. We ordered ours months ago, still no ETA.
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