Cost Of Gazebo Skyrocketed

[Oldgator73]

Last month we were shopping for a shelter to put on our property in Virginia. My wife found an 11x13 cedar kit for I think $1399. We didn’t purchase right away and as luck would have it when we looked again it was not available. A few weeks went by and I happened to look again and found it for $1599. We ordered it and it shipped last week. I took it down to our property last weekend and we now waiting on an estimate for a concrete pad to set it on. I was looking at our order online to insure we received the correct amount of boxes and noticed the price has jumped from $1599 to $3,099 in less than 30 days.

 

[Utclmjmpr]

The price of wood products are going crazy as most comes from Canada and covid has impacted that industry badly.>>>Dan

 

[Gary RV_Wizard]

LOL. I just saw an ad offering to swap a single 4x8 sheet of 5/8" pine plywood for a 2020 or 2021 Corvette in good condition. I think it was tongue-in-cheek, but maybe not...

 

[TheBar]

Our local news reported the cheapest grade of luan went from $8 per sheet last year to $40 this year. Covid stay at home orders got a lot of people busy fixing up their house and building gazebos. Plus new housing starts are way up from people leaving city apartments for single family homes.

 

[John From Detroit]

NOT only are there supply side issues (As noted above) but there is a boom in "DIY Home Improvement which creates additional demand.. In short. a seller's dream a purchaser's nightmare.

 

[Alaskansnowbirds]

Saw a cute joke, it was a picture of a pickup with two sheets of plywood in the back. The caption read....."Don't you hate it when people drive around town flaunting their wealth."

 

[Ex-Calif]

I have put a lot of the wood structure work on hold for now. 2X4X8s were $12 a piece a couple weeks ago - crazy.

My wood toolshed become a steel toolshed because of price hikes. The big box stores are writing the prices in Dry erase - LOL...