Y'all Been Checkin' Lumber Prices?

[riptides]

I am working on a 100 year old building now. I salvaged a 2X4 just to look at it and remind myself of the crap on the market today.

 

[JethroB]

I am working on a 100 year old building now. I salvaged a 2X4 just to look at it and remind myself of the crap on the market today.

I recently had an approximately 90 year old barn demolished. 20x25. Logs for sills. It was beyond any salvaging efforts I could muster. That was some stout lumber. Likely from the last of the virgin long leaf yellow pine forest that blanketed the southeast from Virginia to Texas.

 

[deezler]

I am working on a 100 year old building now. I salvaged a 2X4 just to look at it and remind myself of the crap on the market today.

I understand this sentiment, I guess, but does everyone really think all new lumber is crap? I mean, the trees are younger, that is the main problem. But it's perfectly cut and smooth, zero knots, and they do try to align the grain for least warping. All the studs I've bought recently for my wife's SheShack have been excellent, to be honest.

BTW here is how my progress is coming on that front. It's a 12x20 cabin with a 4x12 front porch. A 2x10 floor deck built atop treated 6x6 runner resting on deck posts, to make it a "portable" shed and avoid zoning problems. Hopefully.

Today is OSB sheet day! Leaving work now to go blast away at it. Scored 13x lightly used, but perfect 7/16 OSB sheets for $150 a couple days ago.

 

[KilroyJC]

I am hoping that things hold together long enough for me to finally get the Woodmizer I ordered. It is scheduled for delivery in the first week of October. . .

 

[TimberFarm]

Hang in there a bit longer, if you can. I think you will be rewarded. The recent, precipitous drop of lumber futures is not fully factored into the price yet.

Agree.

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[rbstern]

OSB pricing at our local Home Depot dropped about 3.5% this week.

 

[rbstern]

OSB dropped another 15%. Now at $20.75/ea at our Home Depot.

 

[deezler]

Almost affordable again, haha. $18.95 each here in michigan today.

I no longer care very much, since I finished sheeting my cabin build and used up every single one of my old, saved stock, except for one odd 7 footer and some little scraps. My years of hoarding paid off pretty nicely.

 

[mrmikey]

Here's the prices in Nova Scotia, all in CAN$:

 

[deezler]

Here's the prices in Nova Scotia, all in CAN$:

1 USD = 1.29 CAN, so you clearly have more than just an exchange rate surcharge going on.

 

[mrmikey]

....so you clearly have more than just an exchange rate surcharge going on

Not just on plywood, everything, always has been that way,
You can really see it on Amazon.com as opposed to .ca

 

[Midniteoyl]

7/16" 4x8 OSB Sheathing is still $24.05 here..

 

[lman]

7/16" 4x8 OSB Sheathing is still $24.05 here..

If you need a few, I see it's $18.95 at the South Bend Lowes.

 

[JJT]

$21.65 here, less than three years ago I bought an entire unit at $6.67. I junked all the cutoffs, I should have kept them........ Many were 23"x96". Don't tell the boss how much cash I wasted. On the other hand I do have about a dozen full sheets in the shed. 300%+ appreciation.

 

[MossRoad]

If you need a few, I see it's $18.95 at the South Bend Lowes.

$16.87 at Menards

 

[Midniteoyl]

If you need a few, I see it's $18.95 at the South Bend Lowes.

$16.87 at Menards

$17 would be worth the drive maybe.. 'Bout an hour away.

 

[lman]

$17 would be worth the drive maybe.. 'Bout an hour away.

+rebate of $2.08

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

I finished up a garage building project in April-May while the virus was really on the increase within the weeks we were doing concrete and framing the walls, I saw lumber prices increase. I think I got done just in time.
Its tough on the bottom line when you are under contract to build for an agreed price and something like this hits.

Make your contracts based on today's prices when you write one up. No reason you should eat that.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

7/16 OSB is $22.65 today out here..... I hope it starts dropping soon!

 

[mjonesnh]

20.95 at local lowes today in southern ky. 4x4 -8' 10.39, 2x4-8' prime 6.89