for the bulk buyers, the price conscious, and/or the econ nerds…help on the way on cost of wood? Wondering if anyone has seen any evidence of this yet at retail level.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/lumber-prices-are-falling-fast-turning-hoarders-into-sellers-11623749401
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Yesterday I noticed a 2x4 at $7.50 vs the $9.50 a few weeks before!
I haven't checked - I'm sure someone here did. Did this crazy construction lumber price increase affect hardwood and non-structural softwoods we get from the lumber yard?
Rough hardwood lumber never jumped the way construction lumber did. It did go up, and has come back down a bit.
I get pine at a local family owned sawmill --Gurney's in Freetown. Peter Follansbee recommended them a ways back. Eastern white pine, clear, is $2.80 lf for 1x12 S4S. That's only 30 cents a foot more than it was pre-pandemic, and it's a bargain for really beautiful clear kd pine.
I just came home with 72BF of Ipe 5/4 x 6 to finish the replacement of the surface of my deck I started last fall. I paid $8.40 / BF in October 2020 and $11.25 / BF today. I was told the increase is a magic mix of supply / shipping issues and high demand. I'm glad the bulk of it was bought last year, late in the "deck season".
I follow the futures market for wood and yesterday prices were down from (round numbers) a high of 1600$ to somewhere in the 900$ range. Most of this drop happened in the last 30 days.
Didn't expect to see it in the lumber yards yet but that is a good.
I picked up conduit, pvc pipe and wire yesterday for the new shop and had to go to two different building supplies to get what I needed. My go-to store said they were having a hard time getting supplies.
8/4 cherry $9+ b/f in Jersey.
8/4 rough here is $7.20 BF right now.
8/4 cherry $6.69 b/f on the coast of Northern Ca
$6.25 in VA $6.50 if wider than 9" I've seen very little increase in hardwoods.
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