copper is stupid expensive!!!

nadams
nadams Posts: 5,877
edited April 2 in Clubhouse Archives
Just bought some Romex for a wiring project in our barn. $91.90 for 250ft of 12/2! Felt like I was taking it up the **** big time on that one.
Ludicrous gibs!
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,624
    edited June 2006
    is $.37/ft expensive?
    comment comment comment comment. bitchy.
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited June 2006
    yep.
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited June 2006
    Just a couple years ago i could get 250 ft rolls of 12\2 for under $40 all day
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited June 2006
    the price of copper just went up about a month ago
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  • jcaut
    jcaut Posts: 1,849
    edited June 2006
    $92 is cheap these days. It's $108 for a 250' roll of 12/2 here. When I re-wired my house a couple of years ago, I was paying $24/roll. So, yeah, it's gone up. PVC pipe has, too.
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited June 2006
    I've got 2500 feet of 12/2 in my garage laying around, (old rewiring projects gone by). I think I paid around $17/250ft for it 4-5 years ago. I have hated moving it around to clean since the stuff is bulky/heavy, now I may want to move it into a safer area.:D
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited July 2006
    China's explosive industrial growth and the rebuild in the gulf coast are driving the prices up. All building materials are up.

    You should see the stockpile of various wire I have.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,981
    edited July 2006
    YEAH,we construction guys are always scrapping metal,eh atny?
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited July 2006
    The main thing I buy for my products all day is steel and other metals. That stuff has all been stupid expensive for about 5 years now. Copper is also the main metal in our weld wire so it's the same thing there.
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited July 2006
    tonyb wrote:
    YEAH,we construction guys are always scrapping metal,eh atny?


    Damn right. It's kinda like a piggy bank...;)
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