president of Hall ’ s Window Center in Rancho Cordova , saying some products his company sells are taking nearly 11 months to arrive . Products that go into exterior finish on windows are in short supply , he explains . “ While you can build 90 percent of the window , if you can ’ t get it finished , it doesn ’ t ship ,” Scarr says .
Kurtis Ryder owns Sacramentobased Ultra Glass and works with builders such as D . R . Horton , Lennar and KB Home to outfit 4,500 homes annually with windows from manufacturers including Milgard and Ply Gem .
“ Over the past six months , at one point we must have had 250 homes just in Northern California that were framed , waiting for windows , and they sat for two months without windows , totally disrupting the whole close of escrow dates ,” Ryder says .
In some respects , Scott Wood is lucky . He and his brother ’ s third-generation family business , Wood Brothers Floor Coverings , has around 45,000 square feet of warehouse space at its showroom along North 16th Street in Sacramento .
But it ’ s difficult to forecast when goods such as vinyl planking floor will arrive from places such as China or Vietnam — or if suppliers will honor prices they quoted months before . “ I have two containers , one I ordered in March of 2021 , the other one I ordered in June of 2021 ,” Wood says . “ They haven ’ t shipped to us , they changed the price on us . I told them , because prices kept on going up , ‘ We want it , we want it , we want it .’ They are finally coming in , one this month , one next month .”
Tim Murphy , CEO of the Sacramento Regional Builders Exchange and a Comstock ’ s Editorial Advisory Board member , says a shortage of truck chassis , drivers and storage space have severely impacted delivery times at ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles , which account for 40 percent of goods entering the United States . The New York Times reported in October 2021 that on a recent day , 29 barges had been waiting at sea for a berth .
“ I work with my colleagues who are CEOs in other states ,” Dunmoyer says . “ Their port backlogs are like 12 hours . Ours are months .”
Murphy notes the U . S . also is short approximately 60,000 to 80,000 truck drivers . “ That ’ s creating a huge issue of being able to move goods and services ,” Murphy says .
While builders , officials and residents wait for goods to arrive , some interesting stopgaps are emerging .
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Around November 2021 , Lennar approached Sacramento officials while they were having problems getting garage doors in the Northlake neighborhood , according to Winfred DeLeon , chief building official for the city . The city put together a provisional policy , which hadn ’ t been formally enacted by press time , to allow certificates of occupancy to be issued for homes without garage
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