This sounded really weird to me. Rent wood. hmmm…something just didn’t seem right about it.
Jerry is forming up the cement posts for the entrance and gate to our property today, and wrote (i am speaking figuratively here) up a spec list of things he needs to get it done.
- Supplies needed to build the concrete wall and entrance gate;
- 14 2×4x8 - Untreated
- 4 sheets of 3/4 inch plywood - Untreated
- nails
- construction tools (hammer, saw, level, shovel, string, tape measure etc)
Once we did the math on the timber that we need for the fence (we are only going to use it once) all of the wood added up to about $180 (that is just to build the forms to pour the concrete into…concrete costs are an entire different deal). Jerry suggested that because we were only going to use the wood once, we rent the wood from a concrete supply store in the Puntas barrio of Rincon instead of using expensive virgin wood and just throwing it away when we were done. It seemed strange to me, but we headed on over there a few minutes ago and got a big load of RENTAL WOOD(so weird to me).
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We rented all of the wood we needed for the wall for a grand total of $38 dollars. It is already cut to the size we need (standard cement posts for fencing) and we just give it back when we are done. They required a $50 deposit and we have to have the wood back to them in 25 days. What a deal.
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Jerry carrying Rental Wood
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Van says: dad used to rent his wood out, then he sold it a buyer who never used it and subsequently cut it up.
It all makes perfect sense to me.
“virgin wood”…teehee…
Van the Man has clearly lost it.
It makes perfect sense to me now, but I had no idea it was available to us until now. Luckily, we haven’t formed too much concrete so we haven’t lost all our money on throw-away lumber.
Summer…you must be hanging out with me too much…cause I laughed at that as well.