Y'all Been Checkin' Lumber Prices?

   / Y'all Been Checkin' Lumber Prices? #131  
My Builder told me this morning that the increase in prices of construction products over the last six months has raised the construction cost of the average house $15,000.
 
   / Y'all Been Checkin' Lumber Prices?
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Look at the chart on the right. Article is a good read too.

I was planning to build a two-car garage this winter but may hold off.

I don't see that going anywhere under current circumstances. And there are 4-5 more Tropical Systems moving in. Then the western fires. We're also coming into the Fall severe weather season which has become almost as active at the Spring season.

I consider lumber and other building materials to be essential cost items even if the folks that do the CPI don't.
 
   / Y'all Been Checkin' Lumber Prices? #136  
My Builder told me this morning that the increase in prices of construction products over the last six months has raised the construction cost of the average house $15,000.

A lumber increase affects the cost of a wood shed or garage by a noticable percentage but not by a whole lot of money.

On a new house its the other way round. $15,000 on an average new home price of $300K/$400K is a barely noticeable 4 to 5% on the total - about the same as a single year's inflation. It's better than inflation though, because lumber is a one-time expense while inflation compounds every year.

Most of us would do far better for ourselves if we put our effort to pushing for lower sales, gasoline, or property taxes.
rScotty
 
   / Y'all Been Checkin' Lumber Prices? #137  
A lumber increase affects the cost of a wood shed or garage by a noticable percentage but not by a whole lot of money.

On a new house its the other way round. $15,000 on an average new home price of $300K/$400K is a barely noticeable 4 to 5% on the total - about the same as a single year's inflation. It's better than inflation though, because lumber is a one-time expense while inflation compounds every year.

Most of us would do far better for ourselves if we put our effort to pushing for lower sales, gasoline, or property taxes.
rScotty

In the rural mountains of Colorado a house costs $300K-$400K to build? You Sir, are not very rural....
 
   / Y'all Been Checkin' Lumber Prices? #138  
In the rural mountains of Colorado a house costs $300K-$400K to build? You Sir, are not very rural....

Nope, I wouldn't say I was very very rural either. In fact, this area is getting to be over-populated - just not many of them are people.
Here's a couple of pictures off the front porch. That's our M59 parked by the creek and an earlier photo from the same porch. Theres a creek you can't quite see that is quite a draw for our neighbors and their kids in the summertime.

It's a big country we live in, and and house prices vary. I got those averages today off of Google. If you go look up average new construction prices you'll might be surprised to find that except for some places in the Southern states, those $300-$400K numbers seem to be on the low end for the USA. Yep, it surprised me too. Of course that's all about cash price. For anyone financing instead of saving to build, their 20 year mortgage will almost double those new house cost numbers.

As for our place, we simply did what was common for most people here. We lived in a camper while we built a crude cabin and saved dollars there while we paid off the land and designed our "real" house. A few decades went by and slowly we got the permits, hired subs to do some things and built a lot of it ourselves after work and with used materials. Our costs were average for our generation, but not anymore.
rScotty
 

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   / Y'all Been Checkin' Lumber Prices? #139  
We are building a 14'X20' room for my wife in the shop building. On 08/08/20 the estimate for lumber and insulation was $3,627. When we bought on 09/04/20 the price was $4,318. The hurricane went through East Texas and Louisiana between the 2 dates. A 2"X4"X8' went from $5.46 to $7.64. The 2"X10"X16' yellow pine went from $23.65 to $36.47. The 1/2" sanded plywood sheets went from $36.86 to $$42.62.
 
   / Y'all Been Checkin' Lumber Prices? #140  
Wish prices were like this when we did our selective harvest of 50 acres of our 80 a few years back. We used a big pro outfit that does a lot of the work clearing besides highways.

As a thought experiment, I wonder if anyone ever made fence posts out of concrete. Everything about fences and concrete on the Net is arguing pros and cons of concrete footers, but as a kid growing up in the city you saw old concrete posts in older areas that were from the 30痴 and were very eroded, obviously very old, yet were still standing. I imagine you could precast square posts tall enough to go deep enough in the ground so they wouldn稚 be top heavy, perhaps set in larger concrete footing poured onsite. You could set rings into it that would allow fencing to be attached and rebar to strengthen the posts.

Not very practical or cheap, but man, if done properly imagine how long they would last.

In Europe you see a lot of concrete posts...

I was visiting an couple in their 80's and commented on their garden... all the posts made themselves in the 1950's...
 

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