Cedar prices have been going up since I started in the industry back in 2004. Used to be that Redwood was used for a lot of outdoor things, but with Redwood availability going away over the years, it has put more and more pressure on the cedar market.

 

Where abouts Don ? My price on these would be slightly less on same steel posts clear graded cedar

 

I just replaced two 4x4 post and had to buy a some 5’ redwood 1x8. $12.40 a board.

 

$56.67/foot sounds like highway robbery. I paid about $25/foot 4 years ago. Split the cost with my neighbors. I did another 100 feet in 2015 myself for about $10/foot.

You can go to Home Depot and "should cost" cedar pickets and pressure treated 4x4s. I'm guessing your mostly paying for labor.

 

Back in '21, our neighbor approached us about splitting the cost of replacing a not quite 40' section of cedar fence between us. We said go ahead, prior to any quote. Our half of the cost was nearly $3K. No gates, just plain old 6' cedar privacy fence with a 2x4 top cap. No warranty unless the fence company pulled and replaced the perfectly good 4x6 posts. Prices seem to have come down since then!

 

$57 a foot. Wow. It's been 20 years since was in the industry.
Looking at today's Lowe's prices materials put you $1500-$2000 range.

 

$57 a foot. Wow. It's been 20 years since was in the industry.
Looking at today's Lowe's prices materials put you $1500-$2000 range.

If that's material cost, the want over $3k for a day's work. The last guy put in roughly 200' in one day by himself.

 

West Salem. The fence I put in before has slats all on one side with a 2x4 top cap and a 3/4 x 3 or furring strip under it. Back side is just 2x4 frame. The fake post extends a few inches above the rail cap and has a tophat to keep water from going inside the tube post.

 

I would HIGHLY recommend going with galvanized posts flanked with cedar fence boards. Today's treated wood posts don't last.

 

Reputable companies that answer your call every time you call and are around next year or ten years down the road aren't gonna be cheap they use premium products that are guaranteed and have employees that are knowledgeable and are paid well. You get what you pay for.

 

Totally agree as a rule of thumb. You often have to pay up a bit for better quality, but not always. Especially when it comes to heating/cooling contractors in our berg.

 

What’s the actual Dimensions of these Cedar Boards ?.🤔

 

Barely 9/16" thick and full of knots.

The good cedar we use mainly comes from Canada, and the US and Canada occasionally squabble over import duties. I can't remember who raised import tariffs on Canadian lumber but the bottom line is it drove the price way up even before our recent inflation spikes.

 

There's a lot of labor cost in that $5100. Do your own materials cost research and you know how much the labor is. Remember, any time you get a bid, they increase estimated labor cost by 25% or more to cover what if's. The only way to get a deal on anything is don't pay labor, DIY.

 

Find you a fencing “crew” out working. Not hard to find. Ask them if they do side work. You’ll get it done for half of that. Pick out your materials at Home Depot and the cost will be even less. I took good “care” of the crews that worked for me and keep their contact information on hand. All the crews that did work for me ( Sheetrock roofing painting and landscaping) were Hispanic guys. Many today are very close friends. There’s a reason for that. And the quality of their work was unsurpassed. We’ve owned 10 different houses and when we were younger we did almost all the work ourselves. We couldn’t afford what most guys were asking. We got older and my how the times have changed. As a matter of fact just ask any Hispanic crew if they know someone who does fencing and it won’t take long to find you crew. FWIW. 🇺🇸

 

To hire guy's to build it off the books is a good way to get sued your homeowners insurance will not cover them if someone gets hurt and if you tell insurance company the were just friend's helping you can bet they'll find out and file charges

 

I had a similar quote in the Portland Area for a cedar fence. The cost for black chain link was even worse due to commercial properties owners all over the country buying it up to block off property that homeless squatters continued to use. Chalk it up to Build Back Better!

 

I’m milling full dimension Clear ,1”x6”18’6” .These are real full dimension.He will get 3 boards out of the 18’+ Board.my mill will do 900 BF by Noon ,with visiting with my Honey 😘.Bought a New super duper mill ,just have to pick it up , Production will Triple 👍🏻😳.Less work ,smaller Kerf .Think I’ll have it in 3 weeks .Has all the Hydraulic features and computerized Setworks ,etc,etc.

 

Cedar price is crazy, just finishing this gazebo and had planned to use cedar shingles till I saw the cost, $350 a square

 

Mid '70s I was trucking and hauled many loads of cedar shingles from the Washington coast down to the LA area and hauled cast iron pipe north. One of the shake mill owners told me they were having trouble finding cedar logs back then and some were pulled up off lake bottoms, so wet you could squeeze water out of them by hand. And while dropping off one load at a building site down south, the contractor told me he used 3-tab on his house.

Well, three more quotes coming so will figure out the best 'value' - not price - after they are in.

 

Buy a portable mill. Saw your own logs. 😉. Good side gig too.

 

Cedar shingles for roofing is yesterday's news. All the really "good" cedar in the U.S. has been gone for a while. It's all about the oil content and great heartwood. All this cedar fencing today is sappy second growth. It will rot in no time. The good cedar has that beautiful dark brown color and is all heartwood. You can still buy great Cedar but it's going to come out of Canada and is sawn mostly into Timbers, Finish and High-Grade Dimension lumber. It is extremely expensive due to availability. To be totally honest there are a few guys still pulling some old growth Cedar logs out of the bottoms of Canyons., Falling old snags and wherever they can find those old logs. Getting harder to find by the day. I know an old guy in Garabaldi who was a "Cedar Maggot". He scrounged and hunted that type of log for over 30 years to cut into Shake Bolts. It was brutal hard work for sure. Just another reason for the high cost of good Cedar. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬US

 

Rebuilding a bit of the deck at home recently. Needed a couple of 4x4 clear cedar posts to match existing with 2x6 top caps on section of stairs with railing. Went to Parr. Neglected to ask pricing. Dumb. One clear ten-foot 4x4 was enough for the two posts. One clear 8-foot 2x6 was good for the rail caps. I had picket material. Couple of years ago I built an entire 100-foot fence out of clear cedar from Custom Cedar Products in Portland and it was spendy, but not crazy so I didn't ask about price at Parr. Again dumb and it seemed too late when ringing out. The 10-foot clear 4x4 was $145. The clear 2x6 was $95. Two sticks wood = $235. Telling the truth. Crazy. Should have walked. Looks nice, but not $235 nice. I am willing to bet the fence I built in about 2018 would cost at least 4 or 5 times more today. It's either product scarcity or the profit gouging has run off the rails everywhere I spend money from the grocery store to the hardware store. Inflation is pretty high worldwide right now. The US is obviously no exception, but is actually in the middle of the pack on the lower side of the mean average across all the countries. We are being bent over under the guise of inflation on every damned thing I buy. I don't generally eat fast food, but couldn't prevent it today. Something like $9.50 for a taco and a crappy burrito.......really?

 

I'm starting to think Parr is price gouging. I had to redo some cedar siding last summer. A 16ft board cost over $40. Yeah it has primer on it but so what.

 

DIY should be about $13-$14 per foot

 

Not for quality top notch materials. You might get it at HD for close but doubt it

 

Materials are crazy expensive, but most contractors I know, including fence installers, think that unskilled or slightly skilled labor is worth 500-1k per day.

 

Cost me more than that to send a crew out for a day

 

Back in 2019, I paid about $6000 for a new 6' high by 165' long picture frame privacy fence with cedar top cap, 44" gate and 96" double gate. I stained it after 6 months of seasoning with the hopes that it will make it last longer.

 

My daughter in Beaverton. Got a quote to replace their fence, cedar good neighbor with lattice top, maybe 200’ total, $16000. I am going to help them build two shorter sections and absorb some of the material costs. A local lumber store has 1x5x5 cedar fence boards on sale for $1.99 through Memorial Day.

 

In 2020 I started doing the cedar planter boxes and it was 1.99 a board for a 1x8x6ft. now I'm paying almost 6$ a board for the same product. If anything the quality of the lumber has gone down. It is crazy how much prices have gone up in such a short time.

 

There are different kinds of cedar..depends on what kind you want..there are 1x6x6 de cedar boards in my are that retail for 1.99 ea..buy by the unit and you can get a better cost..nor WRC though..

 

Cost is crazy this days..