Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater

Re:Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater by throwaway984393 on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @11:40PM (#28547690)

I'm picturing a web developer in 2023 wondering why everything is slightly tilted in his DIY house even though he used the poured slab as reference

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Re:Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater by spiderfarmer on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:18AM (#28549006)

I was a web developer in 2019 building my own office and it never collapsed even once.

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Re:Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater by headmelted on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:34AM (#28549096)

If you were a web developer in 2019 building your own office that never collapsed I have to assume that's only up until the last thing you can remember.

May you rest in peace.

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Re:Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater by hutzlibu on Thursday September 16, 2021 @06:33AM (#28550013)

2 years uptime without major technology change, is quite amazing in the modern fast paced web dev world ..

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Re:Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater by TeMPOraL on Thursday September 16, 2021 @10:47AM (#28552512)

They said they were building it. Not that they completed it.

I'm guessing they just left the industry to do something less mentally damaging than web development - perhaps started a spider farm or something.

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Re:Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater by donjoe on Thursday September 16, 2021 @02:33AM (#28548752)

Well, u can always transform: rotate(X°) in the end ;-)

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Re:Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater by TeMPOraL on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:05AM (#28548942)

"You asked about that stick by the side of the house? Yes, it applies a style to the house, keeping it straight. No, don't pull it out! Consequences will be... cascading!"

(I'll see myself out)

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Re:Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater by klondike_klive on Thursday September 16, 2021 @04:22AM (#28549334)

And Ctrl-Z if you don't like the results.

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Re:Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater by beowulfey on Thursday September 16, 2021 @07:19AM (#28550306)

I don’t have extensive DIY experience and this joke is sadly lost on me. Why does the slab not work as a reference?

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Re:Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater by bluGill on Thursday September 16, 2021 @07:39AM (#28550437)

Because slabs are never level or flat. The framers always start with a level and cut to fit that first wall.

Block is generally level, but if they pour it, they don't get very close

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