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PVC Prices
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:29 pm
by noname
Is it just the Bay Area or is PVC really expensive everywhere now? Like 2 weeks ago I bought a 10 foot length of 2" PVC for $10, 1 dollar a foot. Now it's $2.25 a foot for 2" and that's just Sch. 40! Does anyone know where to get cheap pipe? Online is OK but I like fast shipping.
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:09 pm
by benstern
where are you buying your pipe?
http://www.communitywalk.com/map/6514
add to it if possible
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:03 pm
by Mihlrad
wow, at my home depo a 10' length of 2" sch 40, is 6.50... for what it cost you to get 10 feet of 2" i can get 10 feet of 4"... thats almost as weird as your $1.30 gallon gas...
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:36 pm
by cannon freak
For SCH 40 4" PVC it cost me $7.50 a foot and you have to buy it in 10 foot lengths. None of the local hardware stores around where I live carry SCH 40 pipe, none of them even know what it is. I have to get mine from and industrial suplie store.
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:45 pm
by Velocity
Mihlrad wrote:thats almost as weird as your $1.30 gallon gas...
....$1.30?? Gas over here in NJ is right around $3.00 for unleaded!
NOTE FROM PIMPMANN22- We already went over this in another topic... Dont need another thread about it. Gosh! 
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:05 pm
by benstern
cannonfreak.....
http://superpages.yellowpages.ca
Over in phoenix gasoline is around $2.87
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:59 pm
by noname
I meant $3.30 everyone, you know being tired screws up thinking.
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:50 am
by MrCrowley
well in New Zealand class d(same as sch40) 1metre of that at around 6cm is $60
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:37 am
by rna_duelers
A ten foot lenght of class 18 at 50mm(2")would cost me..$117...Its never cheap here.Thats why i use alot of coke bottles as chambers.
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:11 am
by Mihlrad
117 dollars? dude, id send you 100 feet of 2" for 80 dollars just cause of shipping.
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:32 am
by rna_duelers
Its totoally f#cked!But i get it for free of my uncle who is a plumber but i dont see him much.But the other day i got 2meters of 50mm for free which is pritty cool i think.
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:15 am
by frogy
Lol, I get 2" (50mm) for $0.70 a foot.... I can get 100 ft for $70 or less, but Milhrad is right, the shipping would be insane....
I wonder why prices are so high, Copper is a rip off in the US, but it's like free in China
PVC is really expensive compared what it used to be, but I guess it's much higher in other places... damn that expensive crude oil, petroeluem based products are a rip off...
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:36 am
by Mihlrad
... well hurricane katrina and all the other recent natural occurances have sent prices of all building materials skyrocketing. Basically, they had to send huge amounts of all these things to the destroyed and damaged regions to rebuild, which raised prices on the remaining goods. Plywood really shot up in price, and i imagine that pvc was needed as plumbing supplies in the areas. Copper has always been expesnive, if you had a penny from , i dont remember the exact year but 1940s maybe? probably about then i forgot, they are made of 100% copper and are worth like 80 grand in cold hard cash if you own one. Now penys are made of hardly any copper, mixed with zinc they are pretty much just copper plated for the look, like 10% copper 90 zinc or something, and will soon be 100% zinc.
Also brass fittings and pipe is expensive as hell because brass is unfortunately an alloy. The alloy is made of tin, combined with copper. And your copper = mucho dinero unfortunately for us.
Not sure on my penny facts for the % and years but its around there.
Hope that answers your question.
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:21 am
by SpudStuff
copper is at the hiest price it has ever been. it i now $4.40 a pound
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:35 am
by huse_spud
SpudStuff wrote:copper is at the hiest price it has ever been. it i now $4.40 a pound
good thing your mom's hooking business isn't charged by the pound!