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
@nonoise  If you replaced "dBoy" with "nonoise", I could have posted EXACTLY the same thing word for word.
You could of? Wow. Thanks for sparing us the drudgery of going thru all that. I'm beginning to think that dBoy imagines himself as on a virtual slave patrol of various media platforms and sites, like this one. 

Starting fights for no reason, being the first to bring up off topic subjects and then LOLing his way to smug satisfaction, only to end with his "looking down his nose" as anyone who'd dare respond negatively. It's his MO. He's done it before. Nothing like having your own audio alt right Tokyo Rose blathering away, treating this site like it's his farcebook page.

All the best,
Nonoise 

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Biden is doing a great job.

He is doing a job. 20 years ago MAYBE! and Dick Cheney as a VP.. LOL

The sensible people don’t want Trump back.

I’m not sensible when it comes to politics, he’s nuts I like him..

Prices aren’t really going up, it’s a delusion. In fact prices are going down in the UK.

We’re in the US, people here gouge because they get away with it..

The Lockdowns worked and made great sense.

The lock down helped and it made good sense in certain areas. Of course they made NO sense in most areas.

The vaccines also worked, and made even greater sense.

I agree 100% so did face mask and hand washing and social distancing.. It ALL helped. You don’t want the vaccine get your brain examined. IF you’ve had Covid and test good with a higher immunity. No need for a Covid vaccine. Pretty simple.. People keep saying Covid, that is not even what the NEW variant is, it is different, BUT still SARS. SARS is very communicable.

Some things you don’t mess with, STAPH, Hepatitis, Certain Flus and Smallpox are a few..

Malaria still claims 1-3 MILLION per year.. Every year....

Regards
My post from earlier today got removed without any word of explanation.

Perhaps it true what they say about Americans and irony?

Or perhaps they do, and don’t allow satire?

Or perhaps we are now living in an Orwellian dystopia.

For real.

Seriously, why all of this heavy handed censorship? 

Why not just delete those words which were deemed to be so offensive?

That way, we'd all have a chance to learn the rules of the camp.

No clue on this one. Did you get a notice from the mods? Usually unless someone else is getting report happy. As I remember it wasn't anything that caught my eye other than a too many "greats" in there.. LOL

Great and presidents in the same sentence, That's a mouth full.

Washington.. :-)

His last year of life he produced 11,000 gallons of Rye Whiskey

Regards