Lumber Prices still falling perfect time to work on Red Brick House (2023)

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What's up good people mark holmes here.

And as always I want to thank you all for watching commenting subscribing and being part of joe boo's day job and I'm here at home depot because well, I'm always at home depot.

And you know, we've got some great news that some of the lumber prices have been going down.

And fortunately, for me, working on the red brick houses, I got delayed on buying a lot of the materials that I needed to get on there, because I had so many other projects and thankfully, um, some of the things that I need quite a bit of have actually come way down.

And here we have, um in the northern part of virginia.

Okay, osb is down to 24 25 a sheet.

Yeah, just six weeks ago, it was 47 unbelievable.

So for me, I need like 15 sheets of this.

So 15 times basically about 23 that adds up now let's check out the 1932nd that's, not what I need.

Um, although it's come down that 1932 has come down quite a bit let's see if we can find the underlayment here, um, I ended up spending look at this it's it's, not fantastic, but 43.28 that is far and away half literally half of what it was.

You know, this is now with the government going through and raising interest rates the futures for the lumber are about 590 is what they closed at yesterday.

So that's, great news because see I needed, you know, eight of these sheets so you're talking about eight sheets times, basically fifty dollars, um, right there, um, it's, four hundred dollars.

I just say, just save four hundred dollars because I ended up waiting, um for six weeks on the materials and see.

This is not a whole lot of materials that I'm truly buying.

Now price of wire is still real high.

Pvc is still real high.

But at least the lumber prices are coming down let's see if they've adjusted the price of two by fours in it, two by fours were 498, um last week, and they were as high as about 10, uh within the last couple of months so are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready 487? They went down just a little bit not a lot.

They've not a lot.

They went down, uh, 12 cents, but 12 cents.

If you need a hundred of them, well, that's 12 so that's, a little bit better, they're, um, 487 for the prime I'm happy with that I'm.

I'd love it to be a little bit less, but that's.

A start let's see how the 16 footers are like I said for me, this is perfect timing, um down to 1796, which is still high.

You know, they used to be about 10 a piece for a 16 footer, but you can work with that you can work with it's.

Not ideal don't, get me wrong.

It's, not ideal, but I ended up ordering.

Um, I have a lot of two by fours that are left over from a project.

We had smithsonian, um, but I ended up ordering all of the uh, 16 foot two by sixes for the rafters.

The two by six is for the ceiling.

Um, I got all the floor joists in there, the two by tens, um all that material and stuff in there.

I think came out to about sixteen hundred dollars.

And that is basically framing up a 12 by 16 room at the red brick house, that's the sheathing for the floor, that's all the lumber to go ahead and frame up the walls and to go ahead and do the roof line and the sheath.

So you know, not great.

But I was originally looking at spending about three grand for that material.

The fact that it's down to 1600 for me is actually a great thing.

Let's, see, um, again, I purchased all that stuff in central virginia.

But this is, uh, northern virginia it's, slightly higher in northern virginia than it is in central virginia.

But you know, it's not far from it.

So two by tens, uh, 10, footers, 22, 94, not great.

But I think I think the two by two here's what's, interesting, the two by tens that I got yesterday in central virginia.

They were 12 footers.

I think there were only 17 so that's, actually a big price difference.

Right there, um, that's, two by twelves, 12, footers, 31.

I don't see the price here for those.

So depending on where you shop, the prices will vary just a little bit I'm, actually here because I need to get, um 1 by 12s.

Because I use those for my cnc machine blanks by the clear, which is about 35 dollars a piece.

They used to be about 24, which was great, because you get, um, I'll, either get three of the 24s, which I don't do too many of the 24 prints or I'll, get, um, four of the 16s out of it, which is the ideal size.

So that way you can maximize the material now here's, where it's going to be interesting is.

And this is going to get to be kind of expensive.

But this is what I want to do I'm going to, um at the red brick house.

We've gone through.

And we've taken off all of the plaster and stuff off the ceiling.

So we have those exposed antique pine beams.

Now, what I'm gonna do is I'm actually gonna get the one by fours.

I mean, one by six is like this and I'm gonna actually sheath the floor above the um beams with this.

And then I can go ahead and blow in insulation on top of it.

We're gonna run the ductwork up on it.

But to see the tongue and groove like this, which is similar to what's downstairs to see this above the floor, joists or excuse me, the ceiling, rafters will look beautiful.

I think this will look incredible up in there.

Um, the question will be is do we want to paint those before? We put them up there so that way, um, they're actually done or do we want to stain? I gotta actually ask my wife, her opinion on that.

But you'll see, I've got a 30 by 16 section in there to cover so it's going to take quite a bit of these.

But I think that look will look great in there.

So 12 footers, 14 55 a piece, maybe in bulk, maybe they'll sell those in bulk, which would be nice, um.

But I think you know, I'm only gonna get one chance to do this.

And I want this to be something special.

So when you're up there, instead of just seeing that eight foot ceiling, it's gonna raise the ceiling up in there, it's going to make it look that much better.

And hopefully we can get that done so I'm over here, maybe I'll get lucky and there's some relief here on the 1 by 12., nope, still 35.98.

At least they haven't gone up any at least they haven't gone up any.

But you need the clear stuff for doing the prints.

So I'm gonna grab grab me about three of these or so just to kind of replenish the supply make sure I get some ones that are definitely not cupped or warped.

And you have to check the uh, the look on them to see if they're going to cut the work.

So I need to put down the cell phone here while I'm doing it.

Okay.

So I got me three of these I'm gonna go spend a hundred dollars real quick and get on back to the workshop, where we're gonna go ahead and do some more work and things.

Uh, there.

My work is never done, but I'm, looking forward to come monday.

Come monday, we'll, be back down, uh, down in the country there with the red brick house and we're gonna take off the the roof line and the back wall on the red brick house and tuesday all of our material be delivered so we're going to start getting that part done.

And that will be the the biggest thing we will have done to the red brick house to this point.

So hope you guys will tune in and check it out, maybe we'll live stream while we're ripping some of that stuff off.

And you guys can see it in real time.

Hope, you're having a great day and I'll see you soon.