Sentences with phrase «like wallboard»

Over the past 12 months, prices have increased 19 % on steel mill products, 17 % on copper and brass mill shapes, 7.6 % on gypsum products like wallboard and plaster, and 7.3 % on lumber and plywood, according to data released last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Not exact matches

Contractors are already grappling with higher prices on key materials for construction projects like diesel fuel, steel, copper, wallboard, and lumber, said Ken Simonson, chief economist for the Association of General Contractors, a lobbying group with about 26,000 members which also includes suppliers.

Speaker 1: Furring strips are, well I'm not a construction person, but they're used, as I understand it, they're used as like standards on a wall and then you put wallboard on top of them or something like that, don't hold me to this, but they're thin pieces of wood, they're not heavy like 2 × 4's.

The work is varied but the constants are the materials — commonplace stuff like plastic, Celotex wallboard, burlap, clay — and a geometric sensibility that threads its way through the material and the years.

Be sure to make a request like this before the wallboard goes up!»