I'm doing some DIY woodwork. I have been relying on the orange and blue big box stores, but their lumber selection is limited. Does anyone have a local lumber yard to recommend?

I was doing some house hunting lately. Every single stucco house has issues, some costs $100s to fix, some less. But they ALL have problems. This material is simply not suited for Houston's wet and humid environment. This terrible trend in the 2000s really gotta stop.

From my research, stucco is cheaper than brick or even hardie board. They are thinner, therefore allowing houses to be slightly bigger on the same slab. They are lighter than brick, so foundations can be built cheaper or not as strong as brick houses. Everything here benefits the builders. But 10 year down the road, home owners are left holding the bag with a house full of problems, cracking, leaking, wood rot. It is endless.

If we stop buying stucco, they will have to stop building stucco.