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re: A 2x4 stud was $1.87 give or take just 2 years ago. $8.25 each currently
Posted on 3/27/22 at 10:47 am to stout
Posted on 3/27/22 at 10:47 am to stout
Been tracking some specific lumber prices since 12/24/20.
Here are how the prices of 4x4x16 pressure treated posts at the same Lowe’s have fluctuated since that date:
Here are how the prices of 4x4x16 pressure treated posts at the same Lowe’s have fluctuated since that date:
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12/24/20
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07/13/21
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09/20/21
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11/05/21
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Posted on 3/27/22 at 10:49 am to OceanMan
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OceanMan
Email my TD email and I will send you my personal email to answer what I can for you offsite
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Posted on 3/27/22 at 10:49 am to stout
I’ve still got around 1200ft each of crown molding and baseboard sitting in my workshop I bought a few years back. This might end up being one of my best investments yet at these prices.
Posted on 3/27/22 at 10:51 am to Deactived
I haven't paid attention to chainlink. I know privacy fence has doubled and so has galvanized materials for some carports I had bid months ago so I would imagine chainlink followed the rest of metal prices.
Posted on 3/27/22 at 10:52 am to stout
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Studs
July 2021 $3.82
December 2021 $4.85
Today. $8
To shed a little light on this, I worked in a building material store servicing builders with framing materials and long length lumber back in the late 80’s, and although I can’t remember all the prices, I can definitely tell you stud prices back then because I dealt with them every day.
PCS Pine 1.29
PCS Spruce 1.39
2x4x8 1.19
2x4x8 2nds .99
So, in a period of say 33/34 years, PCS went from 1.29 to 3.82, which sounds like a reasonable jump over the course of those years, but in one year we’ve seen prices double. That’s absurd.
Posted on 3/27/22 at 10:53 am to SPEEDY
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Here are how the prices of 4x4x16 pressure treated posts at the same Lowe’s have fluctuated since that date:
Sickening
Posted on 3/27/22 at 10:56 am to Mike da Tigah
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PCS Spruce 1.39
I bet I can go to my records storage from the first spec house I built in 2003 and was paying this for pine studs. Pine studs never really fluctuated a ton for literally decades until recently.
I keep everything so if I remember the next time I am around them, I will dig the records out and see.
This post was edited on 3/27/22 at 10:57 am
Posted on 3/27/22 at 11:02 am to stout
The inflation figures I have seen are bonkers. Maybe TVs haven’t gone through the roof, but steel, wood, copper, oil have all gone up astronomically. Idk how you can’t say that inflation isn’t over 10% even factoring in relatively stable prices for some goods.
Posted on 3/27/22 at 11:03 am to stout
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Email my TD email and I will send you my personal email to answer what I can for you offsite
Sent a message
Posted on 3/27/22 at 11:03 am to stout
Cost to build is meaningless. Some people are not afraid of leverage and have excess funds. Location is more important
Posted on 3/27/22 at 11:16 am to AUCE05
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Some people are not afraid of leverage and have excess funds. Location is more important
As SFP pointed out, when the cash they used is wiped out by a drop in pricing then I am sure they will care.
Posted on 3/27/22 at 11:21 am to stout
I have my own handyman business and I quit bidding carpentry jobs a few months ago. With the price of materials it's just a complete waste of time.
Posted on 3/27/22 at 11:24 am to Athanatos
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steel, wood, copper, oil have all gone up astronomically
so has wheat
Posted on 3/27/22 at 11:32 am to StringedInstruments
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Apparently there’s just a frickton of money in people’s pockets because you’d think everything would come to a grinding halt with these prices.
Yeah I don’t understand it. Prices are apeshit on housing, materials, gas, vehicles, everything. But people are still buying them up. I must be the only person who isn’t rich.
When so many people are happily paying $70k for a new pickup, why would dealers ever lower prices? In a normal situation, people would stop buying and prices would then fall.
Posted on 3/27/22 at 11:39 am to Horsemeat
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This bubble is going to pop and it's going to be painful for a lot of people.
I wish it would fricking hurry up.
Posted on 3/27/22 at 11:39 am to AUCE05
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Cost to build is meaningless. Some people are not afraid of leverage
When you're leveraged against a depreciating asset, that cost has a ton of meaning.
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Location is more important
While I do agree (in fact I have a thread in my head about the insane differences in value across cities), valuable locations can turn quickly once equity flips into the negative (and with interest rates increases, refinancing isn't an option)
This post was edited on 3/27/22 at 11:52 am
Posted on 3/27/22 at 11:44 am to stout
We still had a portion of fence that needed replaced from Ida. Roughly ~72 LF. Cheapest quote was like $25.80 per LF.
It's roughly $10-11 per LF to just do it yourself, which is what I ended up doing.
It's roughly $10-11 per LF to just do it yourself, which is what I ended up doing.
Posted on 3/27/22 at 11:48 am to Mike da Tigah
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It’s a shite show, but it didn’t get here accidentally or because of intelligent and well thought out discourse over the course of years. It got here because the Democrats simply wanted power, and it didn’t matter what they had to do to attain it. They did it.
I used to think that. Now I think Dems or more or less just the face of the ruling party with most of the GOP just playing a side role. TARP during the Bush years ramped up this shitshow.
Posted on 3/27/22 at 11:53 am to htcthc321
I don't know where you are buying material and how you were building fences, but the properly build a 6 ft privacy pine fence it's at least $14 a foot just for material
Posted on 3/27/22 at 12:12 pm to stout
Lumber is crazy as shite. We build a musical set every spring for the school (this year is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) our set budget this year was $2,500 and we blew through that and dug another 2K out of our own pockets. The kids will have a kick arse set, but $80 for a sheet of 3/4 OSB for flooring is insane.
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