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April 16th, 2025 Lumber Traders Commodity Report

Welcome to our Monthly Lumber Commodity Report.

This resource is dedicated to providing builders, contractors, and homeowners with the latest insights into lumber market fluctuations, aimed at empowering you to make informed decisions for pricing and budgeting future projects enabling better preparation and planning for your construction and home improvement endeavors.

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See below for latest graphs and commentary.

As you do your quotes, just a reminder to always include escalation clauses in your bids!

4/16/2025
 
This week we have a bit more clarity around the countervailing duties/tariffs; at this time it sounds like these will (potentially) go into effect sometime around late summer or fall. This has brought some stability to commodity prices, at least in the short term, and this week a number of items decreased in cost.
 
So let’s dive in!
 
Week over week our composite market averaged dropped 0.5%. If we look a bit further out, this price has dropped 2% over the last 4 weeks, and up 4.3% over the last 3 months.

Here’s a break down of specific materials:
  • Doug Fir 2×6 -5.5%
  • Pres Treat 2×6 -5.4%
  • Pres Treat 2×10 -5.4%
  • Pres Treat 2×12 -5.3%
  • OSB 15/32” -4.8%
  • OSB ¾” EG -3.3%
  • OSB 7/16” 4×8 -4.8%
  • OSB 7/16” 4×10 -4.8%
  • 1-1/8” T&G Ply +5.5%
Since looking at single SKU prices can be a little hard to see the forest from the trees we’ve started reviewing price changes on a sample home.
 
The sample house we are using is a small 3 bedroom, 1,064 SF home with a 2 car garage. This week the cost of this home dropped $261.90.
 
Aside from the commodity market, our suppliers are still assessing cost impacts of tariffs. A few areas we have received price increase notifications include:
  • ThermaTru doors 4.5% – 6.5% increase
  • RailFX railing 21% increase
  • Metabo pneumatic tools 5% increase
  • CRL shower hardware 5% increase
  • Tyvek house wrap 4% increase
  • PrimeSource (vast array of products) 5% – 45% increases
With so many moving parts I’m going to refrain speculating on the direction of the market. Last week was proof that when we expect things to zig they often zag. We’ll continue to keep you posted!

Danny Steiger│President & CEO

dannys@lumbertradersinc.com

Lumber Traders Inc.

Angeles Millwork & Lumber Co., Inc.
Angeles Rentals Equipment & Supply
Hartnagel Building Supply, Inc.
Hartnagel Glassworks

As always, the above content is not financial advice. Simply data to help you be better prepared.  Our goal is to create more informed builders and homeowners to properly price and budget for future jobs and projects. 

We will continue to update you on changes in the commodity market.  Displayed above are the latest graphs.

Angeles Millwork and Hartnagel Building Supply see our customers as business partners, and their success is, in turn, ours.  That is why every month, we will publish a commodity pricing chart on our Facebook page and in our monthly newsletter.  The chart will represent a correlation of average pricing trends over the past year of Douglas Fir 2×4, Pressure Treated 2×4 Lumber, 7/16” OSB, and ½” CDX.