{"id":94621,"date":"2022-05-12T15:33:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T19:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=94621"},"modified":"2022-05-12T15:33:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T19:33:19","slug":"creative-sources-for-local-lumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/creative-sources-for-local-lumber\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative sources for local lumber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Cortes Island, lumber costs and building materials have increased dramatically over the past couple of years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Henry Verschuur, of Blue Jay Lake Farm and Mill, the price of cedar has more than doubled since 2019. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2021, the local rate for cedar was $2.60 per lineal foot, and today it is $3 per lineal foot. <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_94627\" style=\"width: 1380px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Creative-Deconstruction-Bike.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"The company utilizes various forms of transportation, even innovating bicycle trailers to hull reclaimed wood. Photography by Travis\" data-large_image_width=\"1370\" data-large_image_height=\"1027\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94627\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94627\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Creative-Deconstruction-Bike.jpg\" alt=\"18-foot pieces of lumber being towed behind a manual bicycle.\" width=\"1370\" height=\"1027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Creative-Deconstruction-Bike.jpg 1370w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Creative-Deconstruction-Bike-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Creative-Deconstruction-Bike-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Creative-Deconstruction-Bike-287x215.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1370px) 100vw, 1370px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The company utilizes various forms of transportation, even innovating bicycle trailers to hull reclaimed wood. Photography by Travis.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Residents on Cortes Island are looking to innovate with more economical and environmentally-responsible alternatives. Max Thaysen and Travis Pawlak are local entrepreneurs offering gentle demolition of unwanted buildings, and reclaiming the wood for new projects. The company is called Creative Deconstruction, and clients are utilizing the demo service as a source of cheaper lumber.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CKTZ interview below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Cortes Island, lumber costs and building materials have increased dramatically over the past couple of years. According to Henry Verschuur, of Blue Jay Lake Farm and Mill, the price of cedar has more than doubled since 2019. In 2021, the local rate for cedar was $2.60 per lineal foot, and today it is $3&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":94625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,222],"tags":[14473,14474,9459,2437,14131,3949],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94621"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95177,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94621\/revisions\/95177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94621"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=94621"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=94621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}