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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 3:20 pm to Athanatos
Posted on 3/27/22 at 3:20 pm to Athanatos
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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.
If inflation was being calculated the way it was in the late 1970's (before the Feds changed it to make Carter's stagflation not look so bad) last month's 7.9% would have been 15.5%.
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Posted on 3/27/22 at 3:21 pm to GeneralLee
Windows will cost you your firstborn.
Posted on 3/27/22 at 3:30 pm to stout
Picked up 2 22 ft 2x6's and 1 16 ft 2x6 this past week.....$115!
Posted on 3/27/22 at 3:53 pm to stout
Price gouging
Posted on 3/27/22 at 5:01 pm to Jsand43
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I hope you are building a chicken coop with that material, cause it sure ain't going to build a solid fence
Just replacing some post that ida messed up and removing a gate in the back. Already had the deck screws and t-brackets.
T-bracket
Don’t need 2x4x16 staggered with the t bracket
Posted on 3/27/22 at 5:11 pm to BeepNode
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really don't understand lumber prices. They're like 5x more than they were two years ago. The workers aren't making 5x more. The trucks, gas, and tools aren't 5x more. Where is that money going?
Someone who has figured out that many people are driven by want, not need, so why not?
Posted on 3/27/22 at 5:45 pm to stout
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2x4x8 yellow pine is around $8.00 depending on location.
That's actually not bad, relatively. 2x4x12 yellow pine was $18.13 per stick here just a week ago.
Posted on 3/27/22 at 5:47 pm to stout
Building a wood shop for me and my Dad to tinker around in. We may have to take up welding to save money.
Posted on 3/27/22 at 5:54 pm to stout
Amazing to think Putin held such vast influence on America’s wellbeing…according to this incompetent administration. The losing continues.
Posted on 3/27/22 at 6:53 pm to stout
The $1.5T wont last long.....Joe really fricked this whole country!
Posted on 3/27/22 at 7:10 pm to Jsand43
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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
Stines had a tax free weekend.
8 4x4x8 treated
27 2x4x8 treated
160 6ft dog ear pickets
I spent a total of $768 on lumber. Had concrete and screws already on hand.
Posted on 3/27/22 at 7:45 pm to ecb
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Price gouging
Not a real thing unless you believe there is some maximum price goods should sell for. Today’s prices or simply the result of having reduced supply while demand remains the same, or increases. For prices to decrease will require a increase in supply, or a decrease in demand, or both. Econ 101.
Posted on 3/27/22 at 8:14 pm to EA6B
quote:Only if you can stay solvent longer than the Fed can remain irrational.
High inflation combined with relatively low interest rates is the ideal situation to be using debt.
Posted on 3/27/22 at 8:18 pm to stout
A 5/4 8 ft treated deck board at home depot was $13.64/board this weekend. A year ago that were around $9/board
Posted on 3/27/22 at 8:28 pm to stout
Posted on 3/27/22 at 8:33 pm to Allister Fiend
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Supposedly prices have dropped the past few days.
Yes I mentioned in my OP that lumber futures have dropped but it hasn't reached the consumer just yet
I buy material for various things weekly and watch it close. In fact, I noticed today that the 1x2x8 furring strips we buy to tarp roofs have actually gone up. My crews still tarp a roof or two a week and just last week I paid $1.98 per board. Noticed today that they are $2.20 per.
Furring strips are junk boards we used to buy for $1 just two years ago.
This post was edited on 3/27/22 at 8:36 pm
Posted on 3/27/22 at 8:49 pm to SlowFlowPro
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the cash buyers
How in the frick are there so many of them????
I make a damn good bit of money for somebody my age and it'd still be a very long time before I could afford to pay cash for a $400k house.
Posted on 3/27/22 at 8:53 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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make a damn good bit of money for somebody my age and it'd still be a very long time before I could afford to pay cash for a $400k house.
Gotta be equity plus inheritance.
Or California folk selling a million dollar shack and moving somewhere middle class homes cost $400k.
Posted on 3/27/22 at 9:00 pm to StringedInstruments
Its like the h&g channel people who play the flute at a night bar and have a $1M budget are actually real people and there's actually a whole frickload of them.
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