How to chop remodeling costs when wood prices are high

August 3, 2021 9:27 am Leave a comment

Lumber is piled at a housing construction site in Middleton, Massachusetts on June 24. Wood prices have skyrocketed over the past year, leaving would-be home renovators deciding whether to wait out the high costs or move forward on a project that’s more expensive than it would have been a year ago. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Wood costs have skyrocketed in the past year, leaving would-be home renovators to choose between waiting in price purgatory or moving forward and possibly overpaying.

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ON THE LEVEL: At Builder Breakfast webinar, AGC’s Simonson discusses what rising costs, supply shortages mean for industry

May 27, 2021 12:04 pm Leave a comment

Ken Simonson, chief economist of the Associated General Contractors of America, speaks on Wednesday during The Daily Reporter's Builder Breakfast webinar on "The future of the construction supply chain." (Zoom image)

Speaking on Wednesday at a Daily Reporter Builder Breakfast webinar on “The future of the construction supply chain,” AGC of America Chief Economist Ken Simonson readily acknowledged that the main culprit in all of the supply chain pressure has been COVID-19. But there's more to it than that.

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Panelists at Daily Reporter’s Builder Breakfast discuss materials prices, supply shortages

May 26, 2021 3:41 pm Leave a comment

More than a year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the construction industry is faced with unprecedented supply chain disruptions even as the economy at large shows signs of climbing back to where it was before the coronavirus.

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Lumber costs rose this year because of the pandemic

December 14, 2020 2:44 pm Leave a comment

A carpenter carries lumber while framing a new home in Las Vegas recently. Builders broke ground on fewer homes in August. Fewer apartments fueled the decline and Hurricane Irene contributed to a big drop in the Northeast. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

The cost of wood in the home construction market has increased this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Man accused of fatally beating father with piece of lumber

January 23, 2020 11:25 am Leave a comment

A Dunn County man fatally beat his elderly father with a piece of lumber, telling investigators it was payback for years of physical and emotional abuse he endured as a child, according to prosecutors.

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Midwest timber industry welcomes tariffs on Canadian lumber

April 25, 2017 3:48 pm Leave a comment

Workers sort lumber at the Partap Forest Products mill in Maple Ridge, British Columbia on Tuesday, April 25, 2017. The upper Midwest timber industry is welcoming the Trump administration’s announcement that it’s imposing tariffs averaging 20 percent on softwood lumber entering the United States from Canada. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

The upper Midwest timber industry is welcoming the Trump administration's announcement that it's imposing tariffs averaging 20 percent on softwood lumber entering the United States from Canada.

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Trump slaps tariff on Canadian softwood lumber

April 25, 2017 9:13 am Leave a comment

A client selects planks at a lumber yard, Tuesday, April 25, 2017, in Montreal. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada and the U.S. could suffer from a "thickening" border a day after the Trump administration imposed new tariffs on softwood lumber and trade tensions between the two countries escalated. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press via AP)

The Trump administration moved Monday to impose a 20 percent tariff on softwood lumber entering the United States from Canada, escalating an intensifying trade dispute between the two countries.

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Lumber industry braces for rising prices, potential super cycle

January 24, 2014 4:24 pm Leave a comment

Jaz King, an employee of Pine Ridge Construction Co. Inc., Wild Rose, trims a wooden stud Jan. 15 before securing a top plate at the site of the Mammoth Springs apartment development in Sussex. The national lumber industry is bracing for the possibility that material prices will increase as supply fails to meet demand. (Staff photos by Kevin Harnack)

There are two words the lumber industry dreads, a phrase that signifies a market trend in which prices run amok in a futile attempt to let supply catch up with demand.

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Contractor salvaging timber from old dairy barns

August 29, 2013 3:27 pm Leave a comment

The decision to tear down the barn wasn't an easy one for Ann and Jerry Ohde.

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Careful, this is a lumbering blog

August 27, 2010 12:19 pm 2 Comments

By Jeff Moore Of all the existing types of lumber, lumber that comes from existing trees is one of the most popular things in which to build with in the history of the world. • Treated Lumber, Waukesha, Waukesha County ...

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