Lack of Baltic Birch Plywood

[John Morris]

16 hours ago, Smallpatch said:

John I just read where your officials out there have come up with some strange laws that will effect lot of people in Cal.  No fuel driven vehicles can be sold after a certain date, then they say so go and buy electric vehicles then last week they say they want no one to drive electric vehicles after 4:00 pm because they electric grid might blow up and go caput. I know there is a time line in there but that might make a lot of folks want to move to Texas so we will have to pass some laws saying no no not to here. Our elected officials are already losing their minds over more simpler situations.

 

Yes it is true Jess, our govt is losing their minds, have been for about 30 years now, and now we are the leading state in homelessness, low quality schools, high cost of living, horrible traffic, and horrible roads.

2035 is the year we are supposed to outlaw the sale of new fossil fuel vehicles, next year we are outlawing the new sales of small engines, mainly used to run generators and lawn equipment, and our power grid is failing. Yep.

 

And Californians moving out of state is a cancer to the rest of the nation, many of the folks who flee our state to your states, are the same folks who helped vote the folks in who passed these crazy laws that created the mess our state is in, and those Californians are scratching their heads trying to figure out what went wrong? And then they go to your states, and vote the same type of folks into office that screwed up our state!

 

Now don't worry my friends, my wife and I are indeed moving from Kali, I promise to be a good neighbor.

[Fred W. Hargis Jr]

30 minutes ago, John Morris said:

 

And Californians moving out of state is a cancer to the rest of the nation, many of the folks who flee our state to your states, are the same folks who helped vote the folks in who passed these crazy laws
 

 Truthfully, I do worry about that. They may have already infected AZ....other states to follow.

[Gene Howe]

41 minutes ago, John Morris said:

 

Yes it is true Jess, our govt is losing their minds, have been for about 30 years now, and now we are the leading state in homelessness, low quality schools, high cost of living, horrible traffic, and horrible roads.

2035 is the year we are supposed to outlaw the sale of new fossil fuel vehicles, next year we are outlawing the new sales of small engines, mainly used to run generators and lawn equipment, and our power grid is failing. Yep.

 

And Californians moving out of state is a cancer to the rest of the nation, many of the folks who flee our state to your states, are the same folks who helped vote the folks in who passed these crazy laws that created the mess our state is in, and those Californians are scratching their heads trying to figure out what went wrong? And then they go to your states, and vote the same type of folks into office that screwed up our state!

 

Now don't worry my friends, my wife and I are indeed moving from Kali, I promise to be a good neighbor.

Saw a sign in Tucson. "Do not Californicate Arizona". Sadly, it's already begun. We may be awakening now, though. Time will tell.

Edited September 6, 2022 by Gene Howe

[Vet]

15 hours ago, Ron Dudelston said:

I can’t speak to the Baltic birch but cabinet grade 3/4” oak plywood is non existent.  My regular supplier, Frank Miller Lumber, has none.  They said that they might be able to get some with a 6 week lead time.  I just bought 4 sheets of oak plywood at Gillman Home Center for $90 a sheet.  It measured .717 and was made in Indonesia.  It worked but the dust from it was nasty.

If I couldn't get oak plywood locally it may put a damper on my woodworking....idk.

[kmealy]

https://www.allied.com/migration-map/2021/california

 

Timing on electricity:

1. A long time ago, we signed up for a deal where you got a discounted electric rate if you agreed to have a switch put on your A/C that would rotate during peak demand.  We signed up for something like 15 minutes on an hour during peak times.  Since we both worked, it did not seem too much of a problem.  Except our A/C had a thing where if the power was off, it would wait 10 minutes after it came back on to start up, probably to avoid spikes, etc.   So we got 5 minutes of A/C every hour.  Fail.

 

2. Our prior church had a commercial plan.  Being a church, peak demand was evenings and weekends, with just a small office running during the day.   Well, someone came in on a Friday afternoon for a wedding rehearsal that evening and cranked up the a/c in the sanctuary and surrounding areas.   It tripled our electric rate for the next 12 months.  We got a company to install an energy monitor that would rotate power around in a "do not exceed" mode.  I think they also put the thermostats on timers, so the sanctuary would come on about 3am on Sunday mornings.

Edited September 6, 2022 by kmealy

[John Morris]

14 hours ago, kmealy said:

https://www.allied.com/migration-map/2021/california

 

Timing on electricity:

1. A long time ago, we signed up for a deal where you got a discounted electric rate if you agreed to have a switch put on your A/C that would rotate during peak demand.  We signed up for something like 15 minutes on an hour during peak times.  Since we both worked, it did not seem too much of a problem.  Except our A/C had a thing where if the power was off, it would wait 10 minutes after it came back on to start up, probably to avoid spikes, etc.   So we got 5 minutes of A/C every hour.  Fail.

 

2. Our prior church had a commercial plan.  Being a church, peak demand was evenings and weekends, with just a small office running during the day.   Well, someone came in on a Friday afternoon for a wedding rehearsal that evening and cranked up the a/c in the sanctuary and surrounding areas.   It tripled our electric rate for the next 12 months.  We got a company to install an energy monitor that would rotate power around in a "do not exceed" mode.  I think they also put the thermostats on timers, so the sanctuary would come on about 3am on Sunday mornings.

We had one of those systems for a summer, nuff said. 

[Cal]

23 hours ago, kmealy said:

Timing on electricity:

 

I think we might be on this now, but I don't think it gives me any cheaper rate.  It is controlled by the smart thermostat.  This year they are doing a 2 hour block which has been 5-7 or 7-9.  They actually cool it down ahead of time and then run it "a little" during the 2 hour period and then it goes back to normal.  I've only really noticed it once, and that was because we had company and I tried to lower the temp...  No real complaint on my end, although it would be nice if they gave a lower rate.

 

On a related (power usage) note, I just got our August bill.  968 kWh.  What I thought was odd, our July usage was 1009 kWh.  We were gone for two weeks in July.  One a/c unit shut off, one set at 80*, water heater shut off, no hot water usage, no washer, no dryer - basically just the refrig, one a/c and the crawl space dehumidifier for two weeks...

 

23 hours ago, kmealy said:

https://www.allied.com/migration-map/2021/california

 

An interesting link there Keith.  I don't know what to make of this statement:

 

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The average cost of a 3,500-square-foot, four-bedroom home in Dallas is around $650,000, which may be affordable for those being paid a living wage. 

 

Nice home!  I reckon I've never been paid a living wage, $650 grand is and has always been above my pay grade!!!

[Gene Howe]

37 minutes ago, Cal said:

Nice home!  I reckon I've never been paid a living wage, $650 grand is and has always been above my pay grade!!!

Same here. But, I've never considered Dallas as a place to live. Our 4 bedroom home on 1.5 acre near Tucson, was 189 K. But, we've spent over 50K in improvements. Around 10K of that was turning a bare metal building into a shop.

[knockonit]

yippers housing is at an all time high here in Az. you can bet its running 425 to 500 a sq ft. and up pending land size, 

 

i have a good friend who just paid 265 for 1.25 acres, and assumes he will be spending 600 for a 2500 sq ft home to be built, and to top that off they have to sell their existing which is on 2.5 acres  with a 2400 sq ft to qualify, so they put up for sale and been two months trying to find a rental for a year or so.

I have questions at to their decision, but what the hey

 

i live in a 2200 sq ft, older ranch built in 63, little modernized, since i've lived here almost 30 years, built the shop 1100 sq ft, probably around 80k and of course i built it during the high end of lumber and everything else, but it was do or never do, and i had poured the concrete already, so, i pieced it best i could and poor boyed where i could get away with it.

 

I have or had a very lucrative remodel biz for the last ten years, i stopped building monsters long ago, anyone can build a large production home, which is what most customs are, its just the finishes that make the difference, but remodeling, what a hoot, have to have a little insight. We built a reputation for being the company that could add on to your home and one would never know it was not part of original, especially in the older sections of phoenix, lotsa hand made items ect.

as for electrical, aps here is a robber baron, the pushed solar, only reason was to lower the buy back, and up the rate on the normal buyer, the smoke and mirrors and it worked, 

just dropped 7k on new ac unit, and being more efficient it did lower our usage, but not costs, (see the rate went up) with a pool, we tend to use more in summer, but shop takes a little, best part is, the bump in shop is not all that great, maybe almost 80 dollars a month, which will drop off once cool weather hits, hopefully

the issues in living in the heat, changes ones lifestyle, when i moved my gal here in early 70s she'd always either lived on west coat in bay area, or in midwest, and it was a shock, hated it the first couple years, wanting to move, but now, couldn't get her to relocate for squat. even if it was closer to grandkids, says they can move closer to her, 

happy hump day, may the coolness in the southwest be great, and the water plentiful (which is going to be huge issue soon)

rj in az