The Cost of Hardwood

Cost of hardwood Front Range Lumber Fort Lupton CO Lakewood CO

The name of the game in the cost of hardwood is yield. Hardwood is simply a different animal than “plain” (construction or common) lumber like 2×4’s and 1x boards. Most hardwoods do not come off-the-shelf in convenient readymade sizes like 1×4, 2×6 and so on. A few like oak, poplar, maple, cherry, etc. do –…

Our Review of Lumber Prices in 2021/2022

Front Range Lumber reviews lumber prices

Lumber prices have been on quite a roller coaster ride! Lumber prices continue to change and unfold constantly – seems like on a weekly basis. So we’ve started providing our monthly 2-cents on the subject… December 2022 – lumber and building materials price review. Lumber pricing has (and is) frankly just dumped downward. Good old…

Purple Heart Hardwood

An interesting fact about Purple Heart Wood blog post

An interesting fact about purple heart wood: Purple heart wood is one of the woods that will glow under a black light with usually yellow or orange streaks (not all boards do). One of more unique woods out there, it is normally found in some shade of purple although this is only the heartwood as…

The Characteristics of Walnut

The characteristics of walnut hardwood

As a new contributor to our blog, Andy speaks to the characteristics of walnut. Walnut is commonly called black walnut. This American hardwood is widely available in a variety of sizes. Lengths generally do not exceed 12’. The more desirable boards come from the heartwood with a familiar darker brown color as opposed to the…

Types of Hardwoods

types of hardwoods at front range lumber

What types of hardwoods will you consider for your next project? There are many types of hardwoods. Hardwoods are milled and sold in a fundamentally different manner than framing lumber and pine boards. This is due to the increased value of hardwoods, and that softwoods are generally used in construction. In construction, there is obviously…

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