Saskatoon / 650 CKOM
Jan 11, 2021 12:41 PM
A Saskatchewan home builder is predicting some relief from high lumber prices in time for the spring building season.
“(By) late March, early April we expect a drop as much of 30 per cent in the market,” Warman Homes Centre president Rick Casavant told the Brent Loucks Show on Monday.
Prices for oriented strand board (OSB) and dimensional lumber have increased 200 to 300 per cent over the past nine months during the COVID-19 pandemic. Casavant said a sheet of OSB plywood that was $12 a year ago is selling today for $38 in his store.
“There’s lots of time where there’s no lumber to buy. We’ll place an order and we used to wait two days. Now we’re waiting six to eight weeks,” he said.
The latest design for the Wood Street hub (WF Council) A council has denied untrue claims that it plans to house a probation service next to a primary school. The former Wood Street library site in Walthamstow is to become a “families and homes hub”, with a planning application expected in January and demolition work already underway. The new building will include nearly 70 homes and office space for council services, including “a small number of” appointments for young offenders. A group of “concerned parents” have objected to the idea of young offenders attending appointments next to the Woodside Primary Academy, on the assumption they will misbehave in the area.