The week-to-week framing lumber composite price was unchanged on July 4, 2025, holding at $422 per 1,000 board feet. This is the lowest price since October 2024.

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Don’t Forget the Connectors Structural connectors are designed to hold framing members to the foundation and to one another. They help a building withstand heavy loads, strong winds and earthquakes.

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Framing lumber is infamous for being squirrely, weird, and heavily knotted. Most serious furniture makers avoid using the cheap stuff and opt for more expensive harder woods.

Framing lumber was priced at $1,200 per thousand board feet as of late April, a 250% increase from the year-ago period when the price was about $350, according to an analysis from the National ...

A combination of factors has driven lumber prices to their highest levels since the Covid pandemic. In recent weeks, spot market prices for framing lumber were up 14.9% yearly. Prices have been rising ...

However, framing lumber is an exception. Only 8% of builders reported a framing lumber shortage in July of 2014, but that share more than doubled in May of 2017, to 21%, a post-housing recession high.

The wood rot you’re familiar with happens in the presence of water and oxygen. Your framing lumber and the oriented strand board (OSB) are going to be fine.

Framing dream in lumber Building: Custom house builder has a vision, and so do the buyers. But it takes a six-man crew to put in beams, trusses, joists that will provide the skeleton of the structure.