[AT] Crazy pricing on construction job

[deanvp]

I went to my favorite local lumber yard and asked a very simple question. How much has your price gone up on a 16' 2x8? Response: About 40%. Sent from my Galaxy
-------- Original message --------From: Henry Miller <hank at millerfarm.com> Date: 5/11/21  4:02 AM  (GMT-07:00) To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com Subject: Re: [AT] Crazy pricing on construction job Prices are insane. Sawmills shut down just like a lot of other things a year ago. Then everyone working from home decided that since they couldn't go out they may as well do that remodel job they had been putting off. Combined with other people who decided their parent's basement was too small if they had to do more than sleep there so they bought a house... demand has skyrocketed and the sawmills which were already behind can't keep up. I'm not sure if or when prices will come down. God doesn't give me investment advice. --   Henry Miller  hank at millerfarm.comOn Mon, May 10, 2021, at 22:58, Dean VP wrote:> I received a few quotes on building a replacement deck on our house last> summer but had to abandon the project due to scheduling issues.  So I> immediately restarted the process this year after we got back from AZ. I am> completely flabbergasted by the prices I am getting this year.  The quotes I> have received so far are up by 80% to 125%.  Unbelievable.  I have been told> that lumber prices have quadrupled in the last year.  Is that really true? I> haven't gone to a lumber yard lately.  I've been told that 5 quarter Cedar> is slightly higher than a composite floor and I live where Cedar trees grow> wild. .  I am just flat stunned. How much of this is just fluff right now> and will eventually go away or is this inflation that is here to stay?   Or> do I try and ride it out and wait another year. I didn't plan or expect the> have to pay this much for a new deck on the house.  The house and the> neighborhood will withstand this much investment but....WOW!!!   I honestly> feel like I'm a sucker right now.  What the heck is the cause of all this?> > Dean VP> Snohomish, WA 98290> "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and gospel of> envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."> ..Winston Churchill...> > > _______________________________________________> AT mailing list> AT at lists.antique-tractor.com> http://lists.antique-tractor.com/listinfo.cgi/at-antique-tractor.com> _______________________________________________AT mailing listAT at lists.antique-tractor.comhttp://lists.antique-tractor.com/listinfo.cgi/at-antique-tractor.com
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