Lumber - Home Store or Lumber Yard?

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Originally Posted by RockChalk

This is a bad time to do it, as the price of lumber is absurd at the moment. If you wait about 6 months (or even longer), it will come back to more normal prices.

But I echo what others have said, lumber yard is going to get you the best quality, which I expect you would want for a deck.

That thought did cross my mind. We are just getting tired of paint chipping all over the place. And it is hard to know when/if the prices will come back down.