From a report about a carpentry business in Kulmbach that also offers wooden houses:
"A lot of wood is also needed for the insulation. "That is all very expensive and there are incredibly long waiting times." The demand is by far no longer what it used to be and the building materials are constantly getting more expensive." Since the beginning of the pandemic, the price for, for example, a single-family house in timber frame construction has more than doubled. "And there is no end in sight," says Mayer. The experience showed that a surcharge on the customer price has its limits and, compared to - for example, bakeries - a carpentry business cannot change prices daily. These are set in the individual order confirmations, even if they would actually have to be higher later.
So, they increasingly hold back on activities that do not pay off financially right away... The energy costs for plastic or glass for roof windows are endless." To their knowledge, even roof tile manufacturers have stopped production due to enormous gas costs."
