I haven’t bought OSB in about 5 months and the last sheet cost $5.50. I just priced it for a small job and it’s close to $13. I can understand supply and demand. Ican understand hurricane season. But if I didn’t produce at my job, do you think I could attain more than double my salary?
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Sometimes, yes.
Excellence is its own reward!
Maybe that's just the fall-out for increasing tarriffs and duties on softwood lumber.
Phill Giles
The Unionville Woodwright
Unionville, Ontario
That would be hard to fathom since that doesn't apply to manufactured wood products..
Excellence is its own reward!
The tarriffs have raised the prices for all domestic (US) softwood which ripples to all US wood products..
Phill Giles
The Unionville Woodwright
Unionville, Ontario
may be part of the overall equation then. There are also plant shut-downs, seasonal demands, and hurricanes..
Excellence is its own reward!
The owner of my local yard told me his suppliers are affraid to stock much at these prices, that nobody wants to get caught with a bunch of it when the price cycles back down.
Of course, 1/2" CDX is still a couple bucks a sheet more than OSB. Can't blame 'em, I guess.
OSB like crude oil, you have to add in the Bend Over Factor! 7/16 OSB $12.97 a sheet @ the Big Box . 85 unleaded 1.65 gal
I checked plywood tonight. Hardly went up. Like it better, anyway.Quality repairs for your home.
Aaron the HandymanVancouver, Canada