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already be committed for jobs. We were always playing catch up,
all summer.
“All suppliers like ourselves, we’ve been in the same boat as far
as trying to keep up with the demand for materials throughout the
season. Everybody is in kind of the same predicament.”
Marcin says staff at his lumber yard did their best to cope with the
difficult situation. In some cases, that meant suggesting to customers
that they try to substitute different dimensions for projects and see if
that product was available. However, as Marcin points out, it certainly
wasn’t an ideal solution.
“It’s hard on the consumer because they have to run around and
try to get a little bit here, a little bit there from different companies.
They don’t all carry the same treated lumber, and there’ll be variations
in colour and quality. So, it’s disruptive to everybody for sure,” he said.
Sharp hike in prices
With higher demand and tighter supply, the price tag for treated
lumber went up considerably as the summer progressed. “I think
we saw about a 20 per cent increase from one truckload to the next,”
Marcin said.
Prices also went up for dimensional lumber products like
Orientated Strand Board (OSB), which Marcin says rose from $15
per sheet at the start of the season to $35 a sheet in September.
“I’ve been in the business 33 years and this is the highest I’ve
seen it,” Marcin said. The previous high he’d seen for OSB was $27
per sheet back in the early 2000s.
“Everything does go up every year, and suppliers do try to hold
back the price increases as best they can,” Marcin said. “But yes, this
year has definitely been an anomaly.”
In September, OSB was selling for $35
per sheet, an increase of $15 from the
start of the construction season
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