Cajunrider
Imperial Masterpiece
From BuildASoil black friday sale: $532 for a 1 yard tote (1000 lbs) delivered to my house. Good deal?
Pumice prices
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Maiden69
Masterpiece
I'm debating about ordering it too... best deal you're going to get unless you have a place that sell it locally. The only way I can get it cheaper is to drive to New Mexico in a pick up truck and pick up a yard tote, I think it was like $120 or less, but gas, food, time, etc... was not worth it.
edit to add: They bumped the price too, I think last week it was around $167 the yard.
edit to add: They bumped the price too, I think last week it was around $167 the yard.
Tums
Shohin
The price is pretty good if you can't get it locally (~$20 per cubic foot) but I was hoping they would have the smaller particle size in stock. I feel like 3/8" is pretty dang big.
yenling83
Omono
1 yard costs me about $100 on the Central Coast of CA from Air Vol Block in San Luis Obispo CA
19Mateo83
Masterpiece
It’s still that, it’s the 400 something shipping that brings it to 560ish.
Cajunrider
Imperial Masterpiece
My price includes shipping. To be fair, think BuildASoil price is very good for where I am.
19Mateo83
Masterpiece
I looked it up and saw where the money is going. Its the same price to ship to me too, the shipping ain’t bad, 400$ to ship 1000lbs from Colorado to North Carolina is a steal. Original post edited.
NaoTK
Chumono
I am in the wrong business, a yard is $50 here in Oregon. And we have natural "silaceous vents" where you can just dig for free. Someone do the math the break even point to just drive here
Tums
Shohin
All you west coasters can stop rubbing it in now, thanks. 
Maiden69
Masterpiece
It's showing $211 with a 10% off at $190, definitely not $167 like last week.
I remember Bjorn saying that he used to get it at around $20 a yard. Trust me, if it wasn't as expensive to drive to get it I would have done so already. I wouldn't even mind hooking up a trailer to my GTI instead of renting a truck.
chicago1980
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$168 
for the yard.
for the yard.
Deep Sea Diver
Masterpiece
Sounds like a good deal!
Mentioned this earlier, yet, FWIW folks might, if they don’t already do so, consider recycling their media.
We have done this successfully for the past two and a half years with media from our trees and all the media from a friend with very high quality trees in the pot for up to 5 years.
Our results show pumice and lava recover at about 98%. Akadama has recovered at about 50%, Kanuma about 70%. Media that seives through the small sieve is put through window screening. These media and the dust is used for multiple projects with small trees, cuttings and muck for root over rock.
cheers
DSD sends
Mentioned this earlier, yet, FWIW folks might, if they don’t already do so, consider recycling their media.
We have done this successfully for the past two and a half years with media from our trees and all the media from a friend with very high quality trees in the pot for up to 5 years.
Our results show pumice and lava recover at about 98%. Akadama has recovered at about 50%, Kanuma about 70%. Media that seives through the small sieve is put through window screening. These media and the dust is used for multiple projects with small trees, cuttings and muck for root over rock.
cheers
DSD sends
Maiden69
Masterpiece
I guess I can't explain this enough, or my SPANGLISH is getting in the way. $167 was the regular price... they jacked up the price to $211 for the sale. So you are getting the same regular price 2 weeks ago, but with a "20% discount".
Here, found the place I was talking about, not New Mexico, but Arizona.
$85 a yard - https://www.acmesand.com/
| 38PUMC | 3/8” Pumice Moisture retention pH neutral horticulture soil amend | $85.00 |
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