Why lumber cannot cost cheap. How much quality lumber and boards can't cost.

Undoubtedly you can meet on the Internet and in markets and stores in Moscow and Moscow region a huge number of proposals for the sale of lumber at low prices. Many offer northern timber, compliance with GOST, and other advantages of buying beams and boards right here. Let's try to make sense of it all?

    To begin with the fact that the production of beams and boards requires high quality raw materials, namely, business forest or sawn timber. Sawn timber in the total mass of harvested wood in the forest has a small proportion, so it can not cost cheap. The price for sawn timber is 8000rub per cubic meter.

   You can say we are logging ourselves and therefore we have cheaper, but think about why then the company does not organize a simple production process, if many industries are working on purchased raw materials and ready here and now to buy raw sawn timber in bulk for a price higher than its own production.

   Someone will say we buy raw materials cheaper. Perhaps it is stolen timber or gray timber hidden from taxes is not registered in the LesEgaIS. Its origin is questionable and the supply is unstable. The easiest way is to mix quality lumber with timber, dead wood and other low-quality raw materials. Then everything fits together at once.

   Let's now understand the production process. In order to make 1 cube of sawn timber corresponding to GOST 8486-86 grade 1-3 need to saw 2 cubes of sawn timber, and also get up to 10% of boards of the 4th grade and 10% of sawn timber longitudes of 2-4 meters.

    It's years of experience, engineering calculations and there is no miracle equipment that can be better. You can take your word for it, and you can copy the rectangles into circles, and make allowances for the fact that there are losses on the thickness of the saw, and the curvature of the wood. Total let's see how much in the price of boards and beams makes up the quality of raw materials: for 16000rub get 1.4 cubic meters of lumber in different grades.

   But there are also costs for rent, wages, electricity, depreciation of equipment, consumables, advertising, accounting, taxes. Let's assume that all the production costs stacked in 2500rub.m. / cu. Total we get the cost of 18500rub for 1.4 cubic meters. m. Of these 0.4 cubic meters is lumber lower quality and is cheaper.

   Let's consider an example that the 1st grade lumber sold for 17000rub in a warehouse in Moscow (GOST 8486-86 grade 1-3) and 2nd grade (GOST 8486-86 grade 4) of 8000rub. We'll get 20200rub. For 1.4 cubic meters. m. We'll get the rest prodovtsa 20200-18500 = 1700rub. 1.4 sold cubic meters. But this is without delivery to the warehouse in Moscow, without renting a warehouse in Moscow, without taxes and advertising. That is, in the end will probably get zero or minus a vendor.

   Worth thinking about why companies are working in deficit, and do not close. So they save on taxes, quality and other things that will undoubtedly affect you as a buyer: tax risks, poor quality goods, late delivery.