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The market is unpredictable (lemmy.world)
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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm in the middle of building new cabinets for my kitchen and I was freaking out over what the wood I'm using costs (about $25 for each 8'x1' plank) until I priced even the shittiest prebuilt cabinets at Lowe's. Holy fuck those things are expensive, and they're just shitty pressboard.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    What kind of wood are you buying that's $25 for 8'x1'? There are hardwood options in the $1.5/foot range, so you must be getting something kind of fancy.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    This stuff, definitely not fancy at all - in fact barely acceptable for cabinetry. I don't know where you're getting your wood, but you can't get 12" wide 3/4" planks for anything close to a buck fifty a foot where I live. This is the closest thing to it at Lowe's, and it's absolute garbage, full of knots, badly warped and not even an actual foot wide. Even poplar would be more than twice as much for 6' boards, and oak would be three times as much. The manufactured stuff I listed is at least straight and unwarped and it's a full 12" wide.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ah, I was just looking at planks, thinking of something like this. Larger boards would certainly cost more.

    And that oak board is only 6' long...

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The wood I linked I'm just using to frame out the cabinets themselves. It would be much too crappy to make the doors out of, although I probably would have considered it if I hadn't found a full kitchen's worth of good-quality cabinet doors on Craigslist for $250.

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