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The flooring, and teit ended up that after a month's time the flooring went up about 25 cents per square foot. >> reporter: but it's not just homeowners getting stuck with higher costs. construction tematerials are up 24% in the last year. bill mcgrath's company is installing elevators in this new housing complex in new jersey. so far they've put in two. what are the materials in this elevator you've seen an increase on? >> right here you have the electronics, which this is stainless steel. you have the plastics, the electronic boards behind it. that's costing more. the ceilings, wood, you're ...

By the cost, especially the labor to put them in. we wanted to figure out a way of how we can do our countertops on our own and save costs and labor so the concrete countertops were born. >> reporter: she saved $3300 by doing them with her partner and tried the same with her floors. but underestimated how much she would need and the rapidly rising costs of lumber. >> we didn't estimate enough wood for the first floor and we went back to buy more wood for the flooring and it ended up that after a month's time the flooring went up about 25 cents per square foot. >> reporter: but it's not just ho...

>> we didn't estimate enough wood for the first floor. we went back to buy more wood. it ended up after the month's time, it went up 25 cents per square foot. >> it is not just homeowners getting stuck with higher costs. construction materials up 25% in the last year. bill mcgrath's company is installing elevators in this new residential housing complex in new jersey. so far they have put in two. . >> what are the materials you have seen an increase on? >> right here you have the electronics, which this is stainless steel. you have the plastics, the electronic board is behind it. that is costi...

We wanted to figure out a way of how we can do our countertops on our own and save cost and labor, so the concrete countertops were born. >> reporter: she saved $33 00 b doing them with her partner. she tried the same with her floors, but underestimated how much she would need and the rapidly rising costs of lumber. >> we didn't estimate enough wood for the first floor. and we went back to buy more wood for the flooring and it ended up that after a month's time, the flooring went up about 25 cents per square foot. but it's not just homeowners getting stuck with higher costs. construction mater...