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I was at my local HomeHardware store (home centre similar to Home Depot or Lowes) to inquire about pricing and availability of 4x8 sheets of BB, since I regularly get my 5x5 sheets there. It was a bit of a shock. The 4x8 sheet of 12mm is $142 each. 5x5 12mm sheets are currently $73, until their in-store supply runs out. That is twice the price from 14 months ago! When they get new stock in, it will be priced at $84 each. Talking with a manager there, he told me that part of the reason is that the land is/was not frozen enough in Russia to harvest as much as they want. Also, some (unknown) country has secured about 80% of what Birch will be harvested (?).

Prices on everything are nuts, all because of Covid.

They fall a little more every day, down now to May 2020 prices.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/com ... mber-price

Just for grins, I checked on one of my suppliers today..... I used to pay about $31 for 5x5 - now it's $70.

Bruce Weldy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 6:53 pm Just for grins, I checked on one of my suppliers today..... I used to pay about $31 for 5x5 - now it's $70.

See what I'm sayin'?

Surprisingly my local Woodcraft store claims their 5x5 BB has not changed in price all through Covid. I didn't even know they existed and stumbled upon them looking for 1/8 for my DR200 build. I think sheets were $55ish, can't remember, it was a month ago or so. I was in last weekend to get another 1/8 ply but 5x5 were out of stock. I'll get in there again this weekend and check.

I buy direct from the importer now. Some of my other cabs use 3/4. It went to $89 a sheet last month, landed, that's wholesale. Almost double what I paid in May.

If anyone is close to Green Bay Wi, Bay Ridge Plywood and supply has Baltic Birch cut offs for:
13x48 $4.00
13×60 $5.00
6"×48 $1.50

Got all this for $80. I’ll still need to buy two or three full size sheets to complete my new build, but this will really save me some $

Nice find! Always great when you can find those kind of deals.

Bought 4 sheets of 5' x 5' BB today at $65 each. Compared to what I've seen in the last two years I'm pretty happy with that.

Seeing this made me go check my prices here......$71 a sheet. A year ago it was around $30.

Just came out of Lowes, $48 a sheet for the low grade 5ply 4x8’ sheets. Used to be $28 a sheet.
5x5’ Baltic Burch $79
4x8’ Baltic Burch $119