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I went to my local plumbing supply house to buy parts for a water system rebuild. They claimed that pressure tanks and water heaters were getting hard to source. I see a wild first quarter next year for manufactures of basic durables.

Building around here has slowed down simply because of building supplies.

Same here... 12 week lead times on items that used to be 2 weeks

I just did a quote at my national (Ferguson) supply house and got back a bunch of cyber BS. They wouldn't say back order, but said call order desk.

Becoming like a third world country.

Home construction boom due to low interest rates?

Or covid shutdowns slowing down manufacturers?

Little of both probably. I talked to a brick mason yesterday about building a fire pit. He’s starting tomorrow- says it’s real slow now due to lumber prices. He says that he has 12 homes to do, but contractor is holding off until January to see if framing packages come down. They were working 6 days a week until lumber skyrocketed.

There will me many things that never come back.

Logistics and supply for many items are in a shambles.

I’m worried about the people at the low end. They run things until they die, then expect to replace and move on. The water system I’m working on is in a 125 year old log cabin getting ready for winter. A six week delay will move them to the holiday inn.

I went from busy before the virus, to really busy after, to swamped in Aug with 17 house starts at once, though 7 are still waiting for permits to come out. 3 to 4 month lead time for permits to be reviewed and approved, architects can't keep up with plans and redlines. It's a F'ing mess.

I didn't get to go archery deer hunting this year working 6 and 7 days a week, hotter than chit this year, wife keeps reminding me I said I wasn't working any more summers and contractors begging me not to retire on the other side.

Now lumber, trusses, windows, plumbing ect are hard to get.

Luckily for me concrete is still available.

Most likely any specs will be put on hold because of the shortages, but if it's under contract it will go ahead.

I'll ride this latest boom till it busts I guess.

It's not even the money, it's I'm still viable on the jobsite... and I've worked since I was 5 years old hoeing ditches for irrigation and finding pop bottles folks tossed in them for my pay... work defines me I guess.

Kent

Stuff made in China is drying up. Until American manufacturing can be reinvented, it'll only get worse. Wait until the Christmas rush starts. I highly recommend starting early...if you haven't already.

It's a good thing farm parts are still availible.

I look for a boom in small cap stocks.

I needed a few 4x4x8 PT's last week. Shocker, almost 19 bucks a piece!

try to buy a new freezer right now.....

I have been a remodel carpenter, most houses. I have never seen this before. We are all but out of LP siding. It is getting so hard to get that We might not be able to work next week. Lumber went from $400 / 1000 board ft. to $1,000. A 2x4 stud is $7 bucks at the discount stores and $8 at the lumber yard. I told my boss We need to be buying drywall a month early for a flip house. If siding is in short supply, drywall and insulation will be hard to find in a few months. I imagine tile will be in short supply too. Treated lumber is going on the short list too. Here is why, there are 2 reasons. One, of course is building is in high demand. However, the fake C19 shutdown is a big part too. The chemicals in treated wood is in short supply cause it was deemed " non essential" Now wear win trouble. We had a 3 month wait time for cabinets in the Milwaukee area so my bosses wife had a relative that did cabinets way up in Upper Michigan in Sault St. Marie. The idiot governor said it was non essential but he did it anyway . An 800 mi. round trip for a kitchens and we are good. Glad he got the job! He has some little tykes to feed ( Non essential my ass). The only good thing that might come form this is I will have some hunting time off. I went full blast all through the shut down and time to have some fun.

Many of the locked down decided to remodel.

We put in a new service panel at the upper end of the farm last month, electrician said he couldn’t get any more breakers, he was working off his stash he put up earlier in the summer. Apparently one of the factories in Mexico got ‘Rona’d.

Was looking for some 2x6’s for building some graders, went through about half a bunk trying to get a couple of straight boards that weren’t all knots and chips. Worst quality lumber I’ve seen in years, at twice the price. Wish they would send all these do-gooder do it yourselfers back to friggen work.

Had to spend that govt tax money somehow.

So their grand kids can enjoy the house while paying back the $$.