I need this

[tombogan03884]

Guy was just bitching to me yesterday, lumber yard charged him $8 each for  8 ft 2X4's that had bark on round edges.
Sawing up the damned slab pile.

[billt]

Lumber prices have more than doubled this year.  Sheet stock is about 2.5x

What gives?

[tombogan03884]

330 million people sitting home for 6 months with nothing to do but home projects.

[billt]

That makes sense. I've been doing much the same myself. Although not with lumber, or because of Corona. But I've been replacing and installing a lot of stuff around the house. Appliances, water heaters and softeners, garage doors, paint, plumbing fixtures, irrigation lines, and assorted other $h!t. Honest to God, for I while I was going to Home Depot and Lowe's a couple times a day. And being greeted with, "You're back again!"

It all comes with the territory when you buy a 30 year old home. Overall the house is in great shape, and was well cared for. But even with that, time takes it's toll. Hell, the washing machine that came with the house lasted 15 minutes. The first load she put in filled the tub, then stopped. The next thing you could smell was like something electrical burning. And after that it all started. New washing machine, dishwasher, water heater, and water softener. Now I've finally got everything done. So hopefully I can stay out of hardware and home improvement stores for the remainder of the Winter.

[MikeBjerum]

330 million people sitting home for 6 months with nothing to do but home projects.

That, plus the building product industry is not considered essential, so they were part of what was shut down early on.  Don't ask me about the reasoning, because I don't get it.  Carpenters worked, companies like ABC went full steam delivering product, but those producing product were shut down.  We are getting a deck put on our house.  We signed for it in June, and there is still a backlog of pressure treated lumber.  We may not get it before winter sets in.

[Sponsor]

[TAB]

Then there is the hurricanes and people buying up every scrap of wood in entire lots.   Out west people are driving 100s of miles  to get materials to keep working.   There is the largest lumber train yard in the usa just out side of Spokane.   I drove buy there a few weeks back.  It was empty, i mean not a single unit of anything on the ground.  Normally its dozens of acres stack 30' high.  Only time i have ever heard of this happening in the past was when they had a fire and the entire yard burnt down.

[Rastus]

We have a housing bubble going on right now.  I'm renovating an old house over the last month and a half and have watched prices go up 8% plus in that time alone....if they have something to sell that you need. 

[Big Frank]

330 million people sitting home for 6 months with nothing to do but home projects reinforce the COVID fallout shelters, build new secret underground bunkers, and prepare for TEOTWAWKI.

[Rastus]

Alright TAB...dadgummit.....what about that DU 1100?  Got it in your grimy little hands yet? 

[TAB]

Alright TAB...dadgummit.....what about that DU 1100?  Got it in your grimy little hands yet?

yes, but I am in Oakland this week.  Project here went south  due to bureaucrats stopping an already approved project.  I am pretty sure I have a flat spot on my forehead  from banging it against the wall.   Only 16 more days and I don't have to respond to the calls any more.  Not sure what I am going to do come Jan 1, but maybe just maybe I can sleep in past 5 am.