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What is Lute Lumber?

Lute Lumber's building supply search is a service provided by Buttolph Lumber Co., Inc.. Lute was my Grandfather's nickname (founder of Buttolph Lumber) so we decided to keep a family name for the web site. The idea came from having to do a lot of web searches for material, information, etc. in our day to day job. What we found was a mess. There is no great place to find information about the entire building industry. Over the past 6-8 months I have been using a program which lets me develop my own search engine. And now, a project that started out for personal use has evolved into a new service offering from Buttolph Lumber.

What is in the Building Supply Search?

I currently have around 6000+ web pages in about seven different search engines covering the US, Canada and the UK/Ireland. Each search engine represents a different tab on the results page. The different tabs are:

  1. Industry:
    These are the manufactures, retailers, wholesalers, mills, etc. of the building industry. Basically, if you are a company that lives in or services the building supply industry, you would be located here.
  2. Google:
    This is a just a plain old Google search... in case I missed something.
  3. Maps:
    This is a simple Google Maps search but will show local results for your search. It will work off the users IP address to show results in their local area.
  4. Associations:
    This contains about 300 of the different association that service the building industry (NRLA, NAWLA, etc.).
  5. Knowledge:
    This contains all your tutorials, videos, stats and how-to's of the world.
  6. News:
    This will be broken down into two parts... General News sites (NY Times, Washington Post, etc.) and Building Industry news sites (Prosales Magazine, Retailing Magazine, etc.).
  7. Government:
    This has links to all the national, state, Canadian and UK government web sites.
  8. More:
    This will contain off beat searches that I think are relevant and can provide even better targeted info.

***So... If you do a search for "beetle kill timber," on a single page you will get a tab with companies that sell beetle kill timber, google results for BKT, any associations that acknowledge BKT, any general information about BKT, what the news is saying about BKT and how the government is reacting to BKT.

Note: This search engine is not only for lumber information... though there is a lot of it in there. Try out such search terms as; lumber, plywood, concrete forms, span charts, nails, sip panel, how to install a window, etc.



Who is Buttolph Lumber?
Buttolph Lumber has been doing business since 1967. We are a wholesale lumber distributor located in Jamesville, NY (3 miles from Syracuse). We have the ability to supply lumber, plywood and hardwood materials within an approx. 100 mile radius of Syracuse, NY

Some of the products we keep in stock: European Spruce (SPF); North American SPF; Pressure Treated Lumber and Plywood; Douglas Fir Lumber and Plywood; Yellow Pine Plywood; OSB; Advantech; and Fire Treated Lumber and Plywood.

Buttolph Lumber also specializes in special orders: Hardwoods; Specialty Plywood Faces and Sizes; Larch; Hem Fir; Kiln Dried Doug Fir; Wall Panels; Trusses; I-Joist; Engineered Wood Products; Cedar; Doug Fir Flooring; Eastern White Pine Pattern Stock; and much more.

Buttolph Lumber is also Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified and can deliver directly to a job site or do direct shipments anywhere in the country (see certificate).