The price of plywood and OSB ouch!
 

Well I was in Lowe’s on Sunday and just happened to walk down the plywood aisle. OSB ( roof decking on all homes and wall sheathing on frame homes) was $25.45 a 7/16x 4x8 sheet and real plywood 15/32x4x8 was $42.45. Sanded plywood was $60 and up. I am sure the builders can get it somewhat cheaper. I can remember paying $7-8 dollars a sheet for OSB and when there was a major hurricane it would spike to $12 because people were boarding up with it.

Pinched by supply and demand, if you are a consumer buying a few sheets you feel it the most. If a supplier has a customer who he does a seven/ eight figure business with they will get priority, I have seen small items beginning to show signs of coming down in price and availability, we will see, imagine that,, the good old days two years ago,, LOL

Been sky high for awhile yet and who knows when or if lumber prices will come down

I think lumber products are a good bell weather, what held me up is insulation , batts and electrical supplies, ( me ,, hard headed doit yourselfer)

It's either sky high prices, or bare shelves.... take your pick !

Re-roofed our garden shed (wind & water damage) a few weeks ago, two sheets of 8x4x3/4 ply, one roll of roofing felt.
It cost more than the original shed, which is only five years old.
Easy chair and tv were not damaged in storm.
Love my shed refuge.
Shed-man Bill.

So the felt is your finished roof on the shed. I have felted a bunch of roofs in my life but they were going to get shingled later. Brings to mind a little screen porch addition I was doing in the Winter in Atlanta. We were felting the roof addition and it started snowing heavily. We got it dried in and off the roof safely but it got pretty hairy for a few minutes there. Had to get it done!

The felt has a bitumen layer, and is good for about 10 years.

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sounds like my dogs house

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I have purchase lots of OSB for my business over the last 15 years. The price has always been very cyclical. The low was always in the area of $8.00-9.00 a sheet and the normal high of around $15.00/sheet. Three years ago OSB spiked to $24.00/sheet and then came back down to around 10.00/sheet. At Christmas time last year OSB at Lowes was $41.00/sheet. If OSB has dropped back down to $25.48 that is a 38% reduction in the past six months and the price is near the high reached three years ago.

Who are you telling, I just put up a new garage! It’s called Putinflation!!

It was sky high long before Putinflation. It was Covidinflation.

It’s come down was 70 to 80 dollars sheet.

Naaah! Dog kennels only got a black and white tv.!

Lumber prices are down over 50% since this year's January peak of $1,329 per thousand feet to $651 at the end of May.

Lumber prices jumped 300% from pre-pandemic prices through May 2021.

Like most items, prices at the retail level go up quickly but come down slowly.

Ohiobuckeye
 

You’re right, OUCH & it’s only going to get worse!

Not long ago, lumber prices were over $1,200.00/1000bf. Recently they have been running around $590.00/1000bf. Very volitile market. j

Sadly that is true of everything. The only thing that prices are going down is electronic stuff. Value on TVs, computers is amazing.

As far a lumber, a regret I had a collection of lumber in our previous home. Stuff you can't buy for any amount of money. Wife screamed what do you need that for and I gave it away. Hum wife or lumber? Choice?

Surely builders buy in volume and pay less then you would per sheet however they too pay far more than they used to.

Gasoline? First time I ever heard an adult swear other than my parents was my friends father. Gasoline for his 1955 chevy which took high test went to twenty eight cents a gallon.

Yesterday President Biden said inflation was primarily due to Putin.
Biden addresses inflation as economists predict Fed will set aggressive interest rate hike - CNNPolitics

President Biden has repeatedly called inflation "Putin's tax", etc.

US inflation is running 18 percent using the old standard 1980 methodology:
Alternate Inflation Charts

Those tree farmers in N. Fla and Southern GA have the biggest smile.

Lumber commodities at $528 (1,000 bd ft) in todays paper. Down 54% YTD. Was close to $1,600 during Covid. Prices will slowly come down.

Copper (for electrical wiring) is at $4.22 lb. Also down but only 5.4% YTD.

These are futures so will take some time to work into inventories.

Of course many potential events can change that. :boom: :ho:

I would like to see a cost comparison of Framed wall homes vs concrete block exterior walls now. Too lazy to do it myself

Was in lowes yesterday didn’t see one sheet of pressure treated plywood.

41 in stock at HD
https://www.homedepot.com/p/1-2-in-x...1876/206970940