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Has there been a big price jump on lumber?

SXSMANSXSMAN Member Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited February 2011 in General Discussion
Stopped at not so Lowes to buy some red oak to frame the inside of a new window and had sticker shock.

When did wood go up so much ?(oak was really high)

Ended up buying a few boards of poplar with the oak to keep the cost down.

Still had about $60 in lumber with the cheaper poplar.

Looks like the times,they are a changing.[V]

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  • SXSMANSXSMAN Member Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ohh,and don't get me started on cedar ![:(!]
  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562
    edited November -1
    Best check where it came from. I was in Home Depot a couple of days ago and found MADE IN CHINA stickers on lumber, dowels and unfinished table legs.

    Disgusting, I left it all there and went up front to Customer Service and complained. Then went online at Home Depot and complained there too.
  • NeoBlackdogNeoBlackdog Member Posts: 17,240 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ChrisInTempe
    Best check where it came from. I was in Home Depot a couple of days ago and found MADE IN CHINA stickers on lumber, dowels and unfinished table legs.

    Disgusting, I left it all there and went up front to Customer Service and complained. Then went online at Home Depot and complained there too.



    It's cheaper for them to send raw logs to China and have it milled and then ship it back to the US than it is to have it milled here. IT SUCKS!
  • sohigh1sohigh1 Member Posts: 862 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have been waiting for spring to put a new wrap around porch roof on this old farmhouse. I have been concerned for some time that as soon as I am ready to get started, the prices of lumber are going to go through the, um, well, roof...
  • storm6490storm6490 Member Posts: 8,010
    edited November -1
    and why are you getting lumber at home depot?
  • headzilla97headzilla97 Member Posts: 6,445
    edited November -1
    The Amish around here are pretty cheap.
  • LesWVaLesWVa Member Posts: 10,490 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ChrisInTempe
    Best check where it came from. I was in Home Depot a couple of days ago and found MADE IN CHINA stickers on lumber, dowels and unfinished table legs.

    That is due to most of the timber cut in the US and Canada goes to China.
  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you can find a local tree cutter getting hardwood slabs is cheap. You can plane the boards down to what you need.
  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bpost
    If you can find a local tree cutter getting hardwood slabs is cheap. You can plane the boards down to what you need.


    Sounds great if the mill has a kiln, and you have a board planer.

    If you are just making a simple project, and don't have a woodworking shop, it shoots that idea in the foot.

    There is one local guy here that mills and kiln drys his wood. He is also twice the price of the local lumberyards too.
  • cpermdcpermd Member Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Very good No 1 grade oak gets used for firewood around here.
    Wish there was some way to get it to someplace w a market.

    And folks are trying to get rid of cedar off their land and no one wants it.

    Location, location, location.

    CP
  • joshmb1982joshmb1982 Member Posts: 8,228 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    we wre trying to build a carport ( no walls or floor just a roof) last year with some lumber my dad had from his place in upstate NY. he had all ruff cut 2Xs. we ran 2 short on 2x8x12s so went to a local mill just down the road. They wanted something like 65 bucks each for green ruff cut lumber. We didnt want to downsize the boards and go to home depot but thats what we ended up doing. then the town caught site of it and we ended up having to take it down anyway. Turns out in the town of Burlington CT if you even want to put a fence up you need to get a permit and go through zoning. "If it touches the ground its a structure. Structures require permits"[:(!]
  • River RatRiver Rat Member Posts: 9,022
    edited November -1
    Here in the Northern Rockies, it used to be every little town had a sawmill. No hardwood here of course, but you could always get roughsawn pine, finished, house logs, whatever locally. Within 20 years, they have all gone. Thank the bunnyhuggers for that one.

    Oh, all all our forests are full of dead timber due to bug kill. It's great for firewood gatherers, and also for anyone who has a portable sawmill. Here, we don't need a kiln. After ten years of drought, the moisture content in standing LIVE trees is less than a 2x4 at the lumber yard.
  • wpagewpage Member Posts: 10,201 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Prices are going up on everything because our currency is worthless.
  • 35 Whelen35 Whelen Member Posts: 14,307 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by River Rat
    Here in the Northern Rockies, it used to be every little town had a sawmill. No hardwood here of course, but you could always get roughsawn pine, finished, house logs, whatever locally. Within 20 years, they have all gone. Thank the bunnyhuggers for that one.

    Oh, all all our forests are full of dead timber due to bug kill. It's great for firewood gatherers, and also for anyone who has a portable sawmill. Here, we don't need a kiln. After ten years of drought, the moisture content in standing LIVE trees is less than a 2x4 at the lumber yard.



    I'm glad to see someone gets it.
    An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
  • LesWVaLesWVa Member Posts: 10,490 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by joshmb1982
    They wanted something like 65 bucks each for green ruff cut lumber.

    I need to start hauling rough cut lumber to CT.

    You can buy rough cut lumber here for $150 per-thousand board feet.
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