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12-21-2005, 03:33 PM
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Building supply prices
I am working on a little home project and went to pick up some building supplies....Since when did sheetrock cost so much? I finished off a basement in a previous house about 10 years ago and recall the price being something like 3.99/sheet....I picked up a few 1/2" 4X8 sheets and they were 13 bucks each...OK I am on the vineyard I expect a 15% markeup but that is insane. I called a couple places on the mainland and the prices went from 11-12.
Then I picked up 3 4X8 sheets of 3/4" birch ply wood...76 bucks each. WTF? for plywood jezzzzzzzzzz.
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12-21-2005, 05:02 PM
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How about 18 years ago when there was a shortage of gypsum and therefore sheetrock? price jumped from 4 bucks a sheet to over 10 bucks almost overnight 
I pay $49-49 for 3/4" cabinet grade birch ply wholesale, and Home depot has it on the shelf for 40 bucks. I pay the extra because it comes to my door and I don't have to make a trip and pick thru a pile. Birch ply and every other plywood has increased just like everything else. Cherry is about 100 a sheet for A-1 plain sliced 
And people wonder why cabinets cost so much 
I bet 3/4" fir cdx is close to 40 bucks over there since it has to come by ferry. |
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12-21-2005, 05:07 PM
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I am going to rip the seats out of my Yukon XL and fill it to the gills with material after the holidays. The difference one sheet makes will pay for my ferry trip!
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12-21-2005, 06:37 PM
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Welcome to the builders' world. Everytime I do a bid or present a bill it's STICKER SHOCK for the client. Plywood has actually come down from the peak when our government shipped thirteen trainloads of 3/4 CDX to Iraq....... It pushed the price close to fifty bucks for the 3/4 CDX!!
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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12-21-2005, 06:41 PM
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12-22-2005, 08:57 PM
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this thread
just justified the purchase of a one man saw mill.
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12-22-2005, 09:31 PM
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thats why you see alot of post and beam going up...87 cent's a board foot for rougheastern....we use to pay .15 cents...our shop is 24'x48' only cost 9,000.00 to build....today184,500.oo
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BOAT fish do count.
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12-23-2005, 09:37 AM
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supply and demand. how many houses were trashed my hurricanes this year??
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12-23-2005, 09:48 AM
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they're nebe's hurricanes
he just said so.... no wonder he's in the bag...  |
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12-23-2005, 10:01 AM
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12-23-2005, 10:10 AM
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no problem nebe
i see any guy walkin with a surf rod that looks like this.....
and i'm gonna follow you....
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12-23-2005, 01:49 PM
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Lumber
First surge that really shook everyone up was when all the plywood went to IRAQ, and now its going to the southern states.
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Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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12-23-2005, 07:50 PM
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My supplier says the spring will bring outrageous prices due to the Katrina effect, my understanding is that very little rebuilding has begun they are still bulldozing and cleaning up but when they get fired up rebuilding it's gonna get ugly!!
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12-24-2005, 12:26 PM
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The must be getting readyto stock up for the building boom just had a train go by the plant counted17 railroad cars loaded up with wood. That is the most I have ever counted. THomT
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12-24-2005, 04:13 PM
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the most you ever seen
the devastation (the go to word) of Katrina's wrath is so VAST
that you could see ten times that much on a daily basis and it wouldn't even touch their demand for lumber....
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12-27-2005, 07:36 PM
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It's so true. Just looked at New Orleans on Google Earth and saw the before Katrina shots are still being shown. Gives you an idea of how much needs to be rebuilt. We are bidding a new house scheduled to begin in April and have a huge clause in there for material price fluctuation.
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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12-27-2005, 09:44 PM
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I see it every day. I qoute 12 jobs a week and the price of material keeps going up and up. People keep on paying and as long as that happens it will never change.
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thats why they call it fishing not catching
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