Wood prices

[rusty]

I keep hearing that wood prices have gone down, they haven't here. Two years ago, an 8ft 1x12 was around $14-$15. Now they are around $28. Can't really afford to build anything in my shop. I was selling children's rocking chairs for $50, had about $25 in them. Now I would have around $40 in them.

 

[viking]

Prices still not good around here in Southern Oregon, even firewood has gotten very expensive and we live in timber country and have a plywood mill just three miles from where we live.

 

[Patchouli]

Same. Any firewood around here is a lot higher priced than I recall and it didn’t look like prices were going down. Haven’t priced lumber in a while.

 

[poltiregist]

I will pass a " warning " to our members . This prediction is not originally mine but makes sense to me . As a retired professional wildland firefighter having fought " many thousands " of wildfires and having watched how the folks in California seem to be completely incompetent in the field of fighting woodland wildfires , am expecting the fires to ravage the land until it rains . -- The point that I am making is after the fires finally have run their course the next catastrophe will be lumber prices . The rich will be buying up nearly all the lumber to rebuild their million's of dollars mansions . The rest of the United States will be left in a lumber desert . -- If you have a project coming up requiring lumber , you may want to get the wood materials before the fires burn out .

 

[M0del_31]

I will pass a " warning " to our members . This prediction is not originally mine but makes sense to me . As a retired professional wildland firefighter having fought " many thousands " of wildfires and having watched how the folks in California seem to be completely incompetent in the field of fighting woodland wildfires , am expecting the fires to ravage the land until it rains . -- The point that I am making is after the fires finally have run their course the next catastrophe will be lumber prices . The rich will be buying up nearly all the lumber to rebuild their million's of dollars mansions . The rest of the United States will be left in a lumber desert . -- If you have a project coming up requiring lumber , you may want to get the wood materials before the fires burn out .

And mudslides once is starts raining where the fires swooped through

 

[Mountain trapper]

I will pass a " warning " to our members . This prediction is not originally mine but makes sense to me . As a retired professional wildland firefighter having fought " many thousands " of wildfires and having watched how the folks in California seem to be completely incompetent in the field of fighting woodland wildfires , am expecting the fires to ravage the land until it rains . -- The point that I am making is after the fires finally have run their course the next catastrophe will be lumber prices . The rich will be buying up nearly all the lumber to rebuild their million's of dollars mansions . The rest of the United States will be left in a lumber desert . -- If you have a project coming up requiring lumber , you may want to get the wood materials before the fires burn out .

That's the way it always is after a disaster, supply and demand. It isn't just the rich who buy lumber, its everyone who wants to rebuild. Everytime there's a hurricane or tornado the price of plywood skyrockets in price, then everything else follows. Look at the price of cement too. There's far more damaged and destroyed homes than there are contractors and crews to rebuild them all. This clean up and rebuilding will take years to get everyone's home rebuilt. It's a good time to be in the construction and the building supply business. Plus anyone who wants a good paying job shouldn't have any problem finding one.