First of all, you need to know how to read lumber sizes. The first number is always thickness, followed by width. If you see a third number (e.g. 2x4x8), that number is length. Thickness and width ...

Taking all this into account, at the prices reported by Random Lengths on April 17, 2020, the total cost to a builder for softwood lumber was $16,927 for the products in an average single-family ...