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Price Of Timber.
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Searched for a 4x4 8ft tanalised timber fence post today. £30.00! Some suppliers didn't have any. Is this a Brexit thing?
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I don't think it's due to Brexit. During the lockdowns people here wanted to refurbish their gardens and the contractors responded. Instead of buying the timber needed for the job in hand they bought up entire stocks of fencing, posts etc. My local sawmills went from a five day week to double shifts and a seven day week and they still couldn't meet the demand. One elderly man made garden trellis for a pastime and he started buying all the rails every week, far more then he could use in the same period. It's a combination of greed and an unexpected huge demand . I visited the saw mills last week and they thought things were beginning to return to normal now that autumn was here.
Climate change is partly to blame for the shortages.
From Aunty Beeb a couple of months ago:
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From Aunty Beeb a couple of months ago:
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Lies by gulliver as ever
It is a worldwide problem.
From the web:
As the pandemic caused devastation to the US economy, many sawmills had to shut down lumber production with an expectation that there would be a slump in the housing market. ... This meant that the price of the material soared during the 13 months after the pandemic, with an estimated growth of 500%.
It is a worldwide problem.
From the web:
As the pandemic caused devastation to the US economy, many sawmills had to shut down lumber production with an expectation that there would be a slump in the housing market. ... This meant that the price of the material soared during the 13 months after the pandemic, with an estimated growth of 500%.
I realised many, many years ago that it was a waste of time putting washing on the line in the winter. You got cold putting it out, cold bringing it. It was often frozen solid or just not dry and then had to be draped around the house on a clothes horse. I bought a tumble dryer and have never looked back, and think of the time I’ve saved!!
>>> Rubbish, the sawmills around my part of the country source their timber from within the UK
However much of the wood sold by builders' merchants, etc, has never been anywhere near to a UK saw mill anyway, as it arrives from overseas already sawn. Last year UK saw mills produced 3.4 million cubic metres of sawn wood but we imported 7.2 million cubic metres.
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However much of the wood sold by builders' merchants, etc, has never been anywhere near to a UK saw mill anyway, as it arrives from overseas already sawn. Last year UK saw mills produced 3.4 million cubic metres of sawn wood but we imported 7.2 million cubic metres.
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