How to Build a Simple Raised Garden Bed
How to Build a Simple Raised Garden Bed. Start building this easy and fast raised garden bed for Spring planting season. For this raised garden bed, we used: 8 6×6 4′ rough sawn cedar 1 pak 5# 10″ galvanized spikes 8 pieces 1/2″x18″ rebar Some of the benefits of a raised garden bed are: Less…
Building a Pergola
Ready to Build a Pergola? Read This First! Have you considered adding a pergola to your yard? Building one has become a very common DIY project. They are attractive, low maintenance, and increase your property value. Pergolas can be either free-standing or attached to your home. What is the reason for having a pergola? Made…
Your Guide To Pressure Treated Lumber
What is pressure treated lumber? Pressure treated (PT) lumber is wood that has been infused with chemical preservatives to protect the wood from rot and insects. The wood is placed in a depressurized holding tank that removes the air and replaces it with a preservative. This process is the best way to avoid harmful rot…
Product News
Updates on the building industry products we sell. Building materials change as the industry changes. Here is the latest on some of the products our Lakewood and Fort Lupton lumber yards sell. Timbers. There are HUGE differences in the quality of timberes. Front Range Lumber prides itself on stocking mainly “FOHC” (free of heart center)…
Lumber Prices
September 2023 Framing lumber pricing continues to sag downward bit by bit. Everyone seems concerned about a long winter, “business” is going and holding inventory. Directly tied into that is very low inventory levels on most products all throughout the distribution chain. This also includes construction OSB and plywood. The general consensus contradicting low inventories…
Things To Consider When Buying Hardware.
This advice will help when buying hardware for your upcoming project. Many customers purchase joist hangers, gate hardware, fasteners and other hardware items elsewhere because they had not thought about those items at the same time as buying their lumber. They might believe the “boxes” are less expensive. We urge you to think again! The…
A Brief History of Siding
Home siding has changed over the years. “In the beginning…” going back more than 30 years ago, the Masonite brand supplied the overwhelming majority of hardboard siding into Colorado. They ceased production almost 30 years ago. Since then, two house siding brands: Truwood (Collins Products) and LP (Louisiana Pacific) carried most of the patterns and…
Our Review of Lumber Prices in 2021/2022
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…
