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lower then during the peak of covid, but not anywhere back down to pre-covid prices. The 2x8x12 joists are about $30 each, 2x4x8 interior studs are about $8 each, the 2x12x16's that I need for new stair stringers are almost $80 each.

I need more 3/4 T&G subflooring to continue with the interior projects, they were around $30/sheet when I first started. Peak of covid- $100/sheet. Now they're around $70/sheet.

I had no budget for this deck, so this is hurting a bit right now.

 

You get those shims in yet?

 

Idk 7/16” osb is back to $16.40-17.62 here. I was a little surprised given the hurricane damage in the south.

 

So all this belly aching is over a screwed up $30 stick? Sure prices are up compared to a year or 3 ago but $30 is chump change. I don’t know your budget or finances, but I know damn well you can find $30 and just replace the damn joist and do it right. Loose change from your laundry or end of day pocket dumps? Recycle aluminum, plastic & glass beverage containers? Hell I get about $30 a month just from recycling! Mow a friend or neighbors lawn once, that’s gotta be at least 2 joists right there. Wash someone’s car? This isn’t like solving a payload issue for SpaceX, it’s a piece of wood.

 

Did you even bother reading any of my other posts before venting your stupidity in here? I didn't cut a bad joist, I planed down the edge of the deck beam a bit too much where the last joist sits. I was trying to come up with a way of fixing it without having a visible wedge/shim. If it were in any of the other joists that you can't see from the outside of the deck, I would have just shimmed it and been done with it and not asked a single question.

 

I got news for you bud , no prices of anything are going back to pre-covid levels ever ever

 

Does anyone knows what the end adapters on the meter is called?



On mine one look like brass, It's darker than the copper pipes. The other is lead.

 

The large nuts? those are Unions

 

Got the foundation walls of our Ent attacked shop poured this afternoon , I'm just finishing up

 

What's the black wire/pipe coming up thru the wall? Service feeder?

 

armoured electrical cable for sub-panel

 

Thought it might be. Not required to be in a conduit thru the concrete? What happens when it needs replacement?

 

no , its direct burial

 

Anchor bolts set , insulated tarps on so its all tucked in for the night , I'm going home

 

Pardon me, chief, but can your mistake be ripped out & replaced with another piece of wood cut correctly, or not? Call it a joist, a plank, a stick, a beam, a fuckin chingadera for all I care. Play semantics all you want, but you’ve wasted now a week or more of time pissing & moaning about this issue. It can be replaced with a new piece of wood for very, VERY minimal cost. Call my post stupid, doesn’t hurt my feelings in the least bit, but what I’m NOT doing is spending a week of time going in circles about a couple dollars of wood.

 

Started a home for my firewood. This town is a rainy one. Gotta get some polycarbonate screws for the roof.

 

I can’t ‘like’ this statement but it’s true.

 

Yep. Deflation isn't a thing unless you're talking about tires or egos.

 

Tell 'em.

 

Somebody should tell him what all that pt wood is gonna do as it dries out lol there’s about to be all sorts of warps gaps and cracks he can obsess over