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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 73291068  United States02/20/2021 04:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| SmoothSailing
User ID: 35509688 United States02/20/2021 04:38 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have been on the design side of construction for over 25 years. Currently working 60 to 80 hours on plans for upcoming projects. Renovation work and new construction. About 80% commercial and 20% residential. Having to change final cost estimates for projects each week because of changing building product cost and availability. Also houses in my area are selling the day they hit the MLS, and sellers are getting about 20k over asking price. Quoting: SmoothSailing What State are you in? My work projects are mainly on the east coast from Maine to Florida. "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear." Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| Sp4c3m4n
User ID: 80052747 United States02/20/2021 05:02 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My parents are building a house and the house basically sat framed up and ready to go sans the windows because the builders couldn't source double pane windows so after about 2 weeks of waiting my dad told them to just put what they could get their hands on into the house. |
| overwatch
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| overwatch
User ID: 78531121 United States02/20/2021 05:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My parents are building a house and the house basically sat framed up and ready to go sans the windows because the builders couldn't source double pane windows so after about 2 weeks of waiting my dad told them to just put what they could get their hands on into the house. Quoting: Sp4c3m4n im 6-8 weeks for windows now after placing the order |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 78310900 United States02/20/2021 05:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I just finished a 8x16 deck. Lumber was ordered, delivered and cost almost $1000. What was most disappointing was the quality of the lumber. Ive never in my life seen so many knot holes. Id venture to say 70% or more has knot holes that are huge. Several pieces weren't even straight. Hopefully I can fill those knot holes in with bondo before I seal and paint. You'd think for that much money the quality would have been better. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 45601779 Yeah, I had to replace some old 10' boards on my deck. Pretty sorry quality out there - lots of knots and some crooked. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 3660940 United States02/20/2021 06:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Chicago area, 3000 square foot wood frame home,cost of lumber delivered just over $45,000 for march. A couple years ago that would have been $20,000. Insanity. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78612412 Had lumber delivered two years back for a 720 square foot garage I built.... 9' 2x6 walls, 2x8 collar ties and subfascia, 2x12x16' rafters, I joists, 3/4" T&G ply for attic floor and all LVLs was $9000 at a local lumber yard. We purchased the 1/2" sheathing and roof ply at menards to save a bundle and collect the 11% rebate. I can only imagine what those building materials would cost today. Even if I could purchase all those materials again, there's no way the lumber would be as clean as the stuff I had delivered...only a few 2x6s and a 2x12" rafter was twisted to the point I couldn't use it. |
| Hope_Full
(OP) User ID: 79412447 United States02/20/2021 09:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Steel prices are going through the roof for metal buildings, just went up another 30% effective 3/1, it’s also taking about 90 days longer to get. Garage doors from clo-pay are going up and their lead time is ridiculous Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79559732 I've also heard that the cost of steel is skyrocketing. I placed an order for some beams and I keep hearing that the costs just keep going up and up and up. |
