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I just paid >$60/sheet for a pile of 19/32" 5-ply cdx plywood sheathing. They want nearly the same price for OSB.

The T&G 1-1/8" subfloor I paid ~$40/sheet for in 2019 is currently $110/sheet at the same Home Depot.

If you're looking to share some quality bitching time with a rando, go grumble aloud about the prices in the lumber aisles of your nearest store. If there's anyone around, I guarantee you'll find vocal company for your misery. I've never had so many conversations with Home Depot customers in my life...

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I’m happy I did by renovation 6 months ago. Contractor told me it’d cost more today. People he quoted a year ago are coming back looking to start their project and I’m done cases he’s having to revise quotes up 30-40%.

Some trees hit my deck after a hurricane last fall. When we rebuilt it in December composite was about $500 more than lumber. The price since December has almost doubled for composite from $3.80 a linear foot to almost $8.

Damn... I was planning to build a deck this summer and was optimistically hoping/assuming composite prices didn’t go up too. Thanks for sharing this.

My father in law is a General Contractor and said right now is the worst time to build a deck. He’s scoped a couple deck jobs but they all backed out due to cost increases.

If you can wait until next summer you will probably save a lot depending on the deck size. Compare wood with composite decking and you might get a favorable composite price.

If you can hold off any lumber intensive construction until next year, it might be sensible if you want to save on costs. Fences, decks, etc. the opinions I’ve heard is the cost will go down considerably but we probably won’t see costs as low as pre-covid.

But today, $9 for a 2x4 is ridiculous. I’m sort of expecting labor costs to go up too since these guys are in such demand.

A contractor once told me (way before the pandemic) that the materials cost more than his time. I'm still perplexed by it. I feel like maybe we should rethink something.

I lucked out with an honest roofer who encouraged me to buy when he found CDX at his wholesaler and offered to store it until our job could start. We just got our roof on this week, but paid $25/sheet for 90 sheets of CDX. Even beforehand, other roofers were quoting higher prices for OSB and warning that the rising prices would be passed to me, not frozen with their offers.

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