Why the cost increase?


I went to buy materials for a speaker project. I also priced some T-111 siding on 8" centers, 5/8 thick, Ship lap.
I hadn’t picked up any sheets or anything in over 18 months.

48" x 96 x 5/8 wood siding was 19-26.00 and on sale 15-20.00 per sheet, NOW 74-84.00 per sheet.

MDF 3/4" 48 x 96" if you can find it. 45-55.00 per sheet it was 22.00 to 27.00 per sheet.

2x4x8 DF stud grade 1.99-3.00 per. Now 4-6.00 per stud,

There is no shortage but there sure is a LOT of price gouging. NOTHING changed. Just the price..

The quality is worse. The workers aren’t paid worth a crap...Why the increase?

I’m getting ready to finish my home out. WOW.. I might have to rethink this a bit..

The price all most tripled in 12-18 months.. This kind of stuff is NOT cool at ALL.

Just my opinion of course. Any projects you’re doing get put on hold or STOPED?

YES I’m very frugal. Money never came easy, and it leaves the same way..

oldhvymec
Simple didn’t like Roosevelt, Liked Truman, Liked Eisenhower, didn’t like Kennedy, Johnson, or Nixon, Ford was just a question mark? I liked Carter, couldn’t stand Reagan and Liked Bush Sr. From then on forget it..

I hated Trump when he started, I loved him when he finished, I just got ticked because he wasn’t paying attention.. He lost on purpose I think.. Needed to dip his fingers back into the business.

4 years without being in charge of his companies.. He couldn’t stand it..

The only reason I liked him is because I KNEW he’s a NO GOOD, plane and simple.. Crap sturrin’ SOB.. I liked him.

The new guy.. Mercy what a mess.. He won’t make through an 8 year term and no ones is gonna hire his VP.. Never happen..

You got it.. Trump in 3 years a and a few months. No way around it.. Health problems are the only unknown.
Cruz, Carson or Rubio for a VP. Pence is OUT of there for sure..

I just want to build a set of speakers and fix my house.. :-)

Fuel did drop 20 cents per gallon. People were getting ticked around here, REAL ticked.. My neighbor drives 190 miles a day 6 days a week in a less than 20 mpg PU full of stucco/plaster gear. He's a saint.. 300.00 a week for fuel.

500.00 for food, 1200.00 for fuel per month. Something is wrong...

Regards
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dBoy shows just how big a rock he lives under. They’ve got him hook, line, and sinker. Not the least bit capable of independent thought, he needs to be spoon-fed his litany of already debunked lies and defamations.

I guess every fanatic needs their bogey-man to justify their dark and twisted souls. Comfort food for the stupid.

All the best,
Nonoise
@nonoise  If you replaced "dBoy" with "nonoise", I could have posted EXACTLY the same thing word for word.
I can say this without reservation, anyone that boasted "what ever it takes" and professed their participation in what took place in LOT of major cities, would never see the light of day until their last breath.

Looting and burning is a straight up life sentence. On mass looting, LIFE, no parole. Just like what’s going on all over the country.. They would walk in a loot a store ONE TIME...

The rest of their lives they would work by the sweat of they’re brows or not eat. No Work, No Eat...

They like starting fires, they can stoke boilers for the rest of their lives..

They like stealing and wrecking others peoples property.

The rest of their lives they would be cleaning with mop buckets and rags to pay for their behavior..

They would change AND tell everyone what a mistake they made.. I promise THEY would.. No matter the person’s age, race, GENDER. or religious profession. The worst of the bunch were females and not even American Citizens some of them. YUP.. "What Ever It Takes" Would be my moto..

The Border crisis, LOL It would last for 15 minutes at the most..

Helicopters and pepper spray. I’d clear the WHOLE border in 15 minutes.

Got one choice.. MOVE BACK... Form two (2) lines... First come first serve.. Perverts to the left and the rest to the Right. The left line has no openings EVER BUT will be identified and turned over to the family that was affected, no one else either.. just them.

NOW The people in the right line, What you got to offer? Don’t care WHO you were, but you better know what you’re gonna become.. A GOOD, Tax paying, hard working, want to be American.. Stay out of trouble..
Step over there you'll be given a whole slough of inoculation and quartered for 30 days while being processed Stamp, Stamp. Stamp WELCOME to the USA. NOW what is the name you want to be called?
Make the world proud..

NEXT..

Regards