Re: Lumber Prices
[Re: white17]
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07/25/20 09:48 AM
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danny clifton
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Its not just lumber. I bought a new water heater for my home in early spring. 40 gallon natural gas not quite 500. Bought a 40 gallon lp gas last week best I could do was not quite 700.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Lumber Prices
[Re: danny clifton]
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07/25/20 09:57 AM
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Its not just lumber. I bought a new water heater for my home in early spring. 40 gallon natural gas not quite 500. Bought a 40 gallon lp gas last week best I could do was not quite 700. Actually, it's everything, true. My company is half construction and marina, and we sell Grady white, and other boats. Best sales year ever. We are almost out of boats. Same with waverunners and Yamaha outboards. Out. Bicycles? None left at the bike shop. Kayaks? Couldn't buy one.
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Re: Lumber Prices
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07/25/20 09:57 AM
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That's what happens when everybody is working from home.....the "honey -do-list" get pushed to the front of the line. Quite a few of the mills shut down till they could figure social isolation in the work place and this created a hick-up. Plus there was a little trade dispute between the two country's on duties This is spot on. I go to a Lowe's in Allentown pretty regular to get the odds and ends that pop up on job because it's a lot closer than my regular lumber yards/hardware stores. Over the last three months it's been packed. It doesn't matter what day or what time of day, the parking lot it fuller than I've ever seen it. Must be folks out of work spending them stimulus checks on honey-do lists.
Eh...wot?
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Re: Lumber Prices
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07/25/20 09:59 AM
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Very little pressure treated ANYTHING available around here.Pretty bad. My suppliers tell me it's expected to be rare and off the charts price here after the most recent deliveries.
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Re: Lumber Prices
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07/25/20 10:01 AM
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You can't walk in off the street and buy a lot of building materials here right now. My main lumberyard called me a.few weeks ago and told me the supply was running out. Knowing how much business I do, they asked if I wanted them to set aside any pressure treated and concrete mix. I have eight lifts of PT 2x8 and 2x10 sitting in their yard with my name on them, as well as a bunch of lifts of concrete mix.
That might get us to October.
They closed sales to anyone but contractors to help Yup, you better be a regular and on first name bases here with suppliers if you want anything in PT.
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Re: Lumber Prices
[Re: Crit-R-Dun]
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07/25/20 10:04 AM
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You can't walk in off the street and buy a lot of building materials here right now. My main lumberyard called me a.few weeks ago and told me the supply was running out. Knowing how much business I do, they asked if I wanted them to set aside any pressure treated and concrete mix. I have eight lifts of PT 2x8 and 2x10 sitting in their yard with my name on them, as well as a bunch of lifts of concrete mix.
That might get us to October.
They closed sales to anyone but contractors to help Yup, you better be a regular and on first name bases here with suppliers if you want anything in PT. I talk to my material estimator like fifteen times a day. The nice thing about my lumber yard is they move so much material they make orders a year in advance. Every piece of pt lumber currently sitting at the main Ontario supplier has my lumberyards name on it. And I STILL had to reserve lifts. The retail market is the issue. The retail market has increased more than tenfold.
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Re: Lumber Prices
[Re: white17]
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07/25/20 10:14 AM
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Well, we are all in this together. Not the life saving thing. The self-inflicted economic turmoil.
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Re: Lumber Prices
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07/25/20 10:36 AM
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Took me 2 months to get a replacement screen for an Anderson window. Window and Door orders they said are backed right up. Glad I am no longer in the construction trade but I do miss it at times. Anderson has always been slow on parts. Maybe not that slow but they were never speedy. I had a table saw grab a push stick and sling it across a bedroom I was remodeling in a converted barn. When right through a newly installed Anderson sash and screen. it took my supplier a month to get the replacements. this was in July 2018.
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Re: Lumber Prices
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07/25/20 12:11 PM
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That looks like it made for a bad day Lugnut.
It could have been a lot worse. The blunt end of the push stick tore the skin on my palm. A helper said he saw my arm fly up in the air but didn't know what happened. The worst part was we went to lunch right after. By the time we got back the project manager for the large company that owned the property had been there and left. I had to call him and explain what happened.
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Re: Lumber Prices
[Re: white17]
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07/25/20 12:22 PM
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That was my first and only power tool mishap (that resulted in injury) in forty-plus years.
There goes my safety record!
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