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   Lansdown | Jun 02, 2006 11:55pm | #1

   You haven't rocked for awhile have you.

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   davidmeiland | Jun 03, 2006 12:03am | #2

   Well, I haven't bought rock myself in a while. I usually sub it and never know specifically what the board itself costs.

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   Lansdown | Jun 03, 2006 12:06am | #3

   The price has been creeping for sometime. I have noticed in the city on large scale work, elevator shafts are sometimes spec'd as CMU again instead of shaft walls.

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   davidmeiland | Jun 03, 2006 12:12am | #4

   I was thinking, last time I bought board was August 2005. I'd look up the cost but I already stored last year's stuff. I bet it was $6-7.

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   Lansdown | Jun 03, 2006 12:15am | #5

   Here on the eastcoast it was probably around $10 - $11 or so a sheet last Aug.

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   jpomeroy | Jun 03, 2006 12:32am | #6

   Our supplier is raising prices again next month and we are paying 14.64 for 1/2 4x12 and 16.56 for 5/8 4x12.  I was hopefull that when lumber started going down drywall would follow but that doesn't seem to be happening.

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   JohnT8 | Jun 03, 2006 12:50am | #7

   I think the flier in with my lumber bill had 1/2" 4x8 delivered for around $7/sheet.

    

   jt8

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   jhausch | Jun 03, 2006 01:57am | #8

   Gyp's gotten too expensive so they make it out of cocaine now.

   A side benefit is that the rockers are working really fast and never take a lunch.

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   basswood | Jun 03, 2006 03:35am | #9

   Just paid $6.92 per 1/2" 4x8 sheet...seemed cheap to me.

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   DonK | Jun 03, 2006 04:27am | #11

   Where are you shopping?

   I just paid $11.32 for 8', picked up. I'll probably only need another 20 or 30 sheets on this job, so it's not going to kill me, but damn - between the copper, the studs and the rock, my beer money fund is going broke.

    

   Don K.

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   basswood | Jun 03, 2006 05:28am | #13

   Menards, Winona, MN

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   RW | Jun 03, 2006 04:14am | #10

   32 cents a foot last week, going up to 37 here I think beginning of the month. Thats $10.24 for a 4x8 or $15.36 for a 12 footer.

    

   "Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think -- there are no little things" - Bruce Barton

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   dirtysanchez | Jun 03, 2006 05:05am | #12

   cash and carry:

   5/8x8 $8.49

   1/2x8 $7.29

   the hd is the cheapest around me. both were for white board.

    

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   BobKovacs | Jun 03, 2006 04:42pm | #14

   I was just in HD killing time the other day, and noticed that 1/2" 4x8 was $9.98, and 5/8" 4x8 was $13.48.   That's the first time I paid attention to the price in a while, since like you, I never buy it directly (last time I did in 2001, it was $5/sheet).  MY drywall sub prices have been going up recently, but there was also a carpenter's wage increase that went into effet last month, so I attributed it all to that.  I guess it was a combo of labor and material increases.

   Bob

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   davidmeiland | Jun 03, 2006 06:15pm | #15

   When sheetrock was a little cheaper, it almost cost more to throw away the scraps than it did to buy the board in the first place. Recently there's a guy here with a tub grinder that will take scraps. I assume that big city rockers have recycling of some sort for their scraps?

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   BobKovacs | Jun 03, 2006 06:26pm | #16

   In Vegas, the drywall companies had to scrap out the house after their crews were done.  They'd bring in a truck and pick up all the scrap and take it to the landfill.  The landfills would take the loads for free because they used the gypsum to mix in with the trash- I think it helped with decomposition of something.

   Here in NJ there are a few companies that are starting to segregate trash their yards.  They'll take a dumpster load, and using conveyors and machinery, segregate the wood, metal, gyp board, and other stuff into different piles.  They they recycle what they can, and landfill the rest.

   I guess it's finally becoming cost-effective to do the segregation.

   Bob

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   davidmeiland | Jun 03, 2006 06:28pm | #17

   There's a company on the mainland that will drop off bins for scrap wood, scrap rock, etc., and then it gets recycled or mulched or whatever. I haven't had a job with quite enough demo to interest them, but I'm sure it's the wave of the future. We're at .11 per pound at the transfer station.

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   Dave45 | Jun 04, 2006 12:53am | #19

   Turning gypsum into clay soils helps keep the clay from turning into concrete when it bakes in the sun.

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   jimxxx | Jun 04, 2006 01:00am | #20

   What actually happens is the calcium sulfate from the gypsum reacts with the soil particles so they can't bind to each other as they dry.

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   Dave45 | Jun 04, 2006 05:42am | #21

   I didn't know the specifics, but I know it works - lol.  I must have put down a ton of the stuff over the years but my yard still sets up like concrete.

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   jimxxx | Jun 04, 2006 12:46am | #18

   Price increase is not just labor. Gypsum for Dry Wall and board manufacture are both very energy intensive just like cement. Expect the price to follow Natural Gas price. Just ckeck your fuel price increase this last year.