I never thought that welding a summer shower, a fence around the site, a garage door would become simply an unaffordable luxury for most of us. But it happened.
Prices have always grown a little, we all got used to it for a long time. But the last year has broken all records. I am 38 years old, for my conscious work as a welder, I do not remember such frequent and large jumps in the cost of metal.
I often take orders for the welding repair of cargo trailers. Sometimes it's just repairing rotten parts of the sides, and sometimes I cook the structure completely.
They fit the chassis of the trailer and I need to completely weld the superstructure, the structure for the transportation of bulk or other cargo. Who needs what, for those purposes and cook.
The volume of metal for welding such structures by garage standards is quite diverse. Here you need:
Channel
Profile pipe
Sheet metal
Round timber
Pipe
Strip
The other day they drove me such a chassis, in the photo above this is it. It is necessary to make a structure for the transportation of bulk cargo. The work is familiar, but metal prices have broken all records this year.
You have to often visit the database and compare prices, otherwise you can just chat at a price not in your favor. I must say right away that a year ago a set of metal for welding of such a structure cost around 70 thousand rubles. See what the price is now.
This is the metal price, which became closer to the new year in the last 20 years. Not sickly ascent from 70 to 95 thousand. I was then very surprised how such a sharp and large rise in price could be possible. But these were flowers.
You see this lumpy sum - 150 thousand rubles, this is how much the same set of metal costs on May 25, which cost 70 a year earlier. It turns out that the price has increased even more than 2 times. On the right on the piece of paper, the price is 135 thousand, it was quite recently, about a month ago. This is the dynamics of growth.
But the customer is ready to pay for this design and at such prices. This design is for business, the owner is engaged in transportation, he will take these investments away and still work. But what to do for a simple average person who needs a fence, a summer shower, a new gate at his site, in his country house.
Most likely, you just have to postpone your plans for welding these necessary structures until better times. It has become inadequately expensive. I myself recently bought a house in the village for a summer residence.
I welded a tank for a summer shower, but I just had sheet metal scraps, so I only spent on welding wire. I think I can master the frame and how to sew up the booth, I will cook a summer shower. But the fence, which is desirable to change, let it stand still.
Maybe everything will change for the better, but if this is not the limit, I don't even know what and how we will continue to weld from metal. Switch to slab or wattle fences, like a hundred years ago.