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raratt
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Supply and demand, more new houses being built because of low interest rates, etc. Edit: Covid shut down some mills also.Why is wood so expensive right now? 65 bucks for a sheet of plywood at home depot.
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DarkWeb
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Covid also created a housing boom. Making the supply move even faster.
greg nr
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Plus everyone is stuck at home and realizing what a dump the place is. So they are spending their vacation bucks on renovations and upgrades.
DarkWeb
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All of our schools are overwhelmed from the amount of new students. A friend sold his house for 40k more than what he was asking. Another sold his place in 3 days. Every little piece of property is getting built on.
Vacation....gas....daycare money....lots of money can be directed differently. I saved just about 20k on daycare last year!
greg nr
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My son just signed up to apprentice in a home repair/construction training program. The trades are white hot right now and finding anyone to work on "small" projects is virtually impossible. He is paid full time with benefits during training, and if he is hired after he will get a 25% bump in pay and can try to specialize in plumbing or electric work as a journeyman.
A neighbor runs a home design and renovation company, She said that right now, a lot of contractors she works with are aging out and retiring quickly. That adds to the burn of a lack of skilled workers.
Interesting times.
I just had a metal roof installed - first quote came in at 90K +
Yeah, you bet I called him back.
Yeah, you bet I called him back.
It's all your fault!
As the largest market, the U.S. is heavily dependent on Canada's lumber. The needs of the US outweigh the domestic supply. Canada has also been expanding rapidly into the Asian market, with China being the second-largest importer. The U.S. accounted for 69% of Canada's softwood lumber exports in 2015.
We should trade wood for vaccines.
When we lived in Alaska they would clear cut huge areas, Chinese ships would show up & be loaded to the gills with Sitka Spruce which was sent overseas to be processed and sold back to the US.
How stupid is that on our part?
How stupid is that on our part?
greg nr
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The definition of being a colony is to export raw materials and import finished goods.
Aeroknow
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They don’t have enough of us in the bay area to man up jobs. Union and mainly commercial. Mother fuckers need to pay us more. I mean jesus christ. The plumbers, electricians and tin- knockers now make about 20 bucks more an hour. Some serious bullshit.
raratt
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I read they had floating mills for the raw wood so they would cut it up while at sea.
I knew loggers & loaders - these ships were like 600' container ships, God knows how many linear feet of wood they could fit in there.
