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To: z3n
I put off a couple of unessential projects last year because of prices.

I did too. The deck really needs to be redone but it'll keep. Had to re-roof the barn in January of '21 due to a tree fall and the contractor nearly fainted when he found out what had happened to plywood prices over the preceding two weeks. He had to station two of his crew at his usual sources to snap up whatever came up for sale before it was gone. And I was lucky.

11 posted on 06/10/2022 10:32:39 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

Fortunately, we replaced our redwood decking and front steps, the Summer/Fall before the Covid B$ insanity and increases.

The fellow, who did the decking went into window and door replacement due to the price increases of good redwood

My wife wanted to replace our front door as it had become kinda ugly. It was a solid mahogany door.

Our decking guy said to have a professional wooden door refinisher, remove the door, take it to his shop to refinish it and reinstall it. That professional wanted $1,000.

My wife thought that he was overpriced until she checked on door prices at home depot. Even with my 10% veteran discount their costs were just under 2 grand and that didn’t include
installation of the door and refitting the door locks.

So, we went with the refinishing route. 2+ years later, the refinished door looks great.


36 posted on 06/10/2022 11:32:08 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Has anyone, recently, seen a Biden sticker on any vehicle and anin particular at/in a gas station!!!)
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