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Whether it be homeowners, contractors or hardware stores, everyone is feeling the spike in the cost of lumber. The pandemic spurred home improvement projects or people buying houses, which has led to price increases for materials. For lumber, those price increases land in the ballpark of 250% according to various estimates. That then affects anything that has to deal with wood, from your do-it-yourself home improvement project to matching the high demand for housing. The National Homebuilders Association estimates the spike has added $35,872 to the price of an average single-family home in th...

Michael Elizabeth Sakas/CPR News Hundreds of homes like this one were destroyed in the East Troublesome fire last year. All that’s left of many is the stone chimney. Dec. 31, 2021. When the East Troublesome fire hurtled towards Matthew Reed-Tolonen’s Grand Lake home last October, he made sure to lock up his family’s fireproof safes before they evacuated.  “That was like the marriage license, birth certificates, all that kind of stuff,” Reed-Tolonen said. “I thought I was good. I was like, ‘All right, it's closed.’ And this is an expensive safe, we're good. It didn’t do anyt...