The Medway Handyman wrote:
John Rumm wrote:
A friend of mine went to a builders merchant last week to order 1,100
bricks, nothing special just fairly bog standard flettons. He nearly
fell off the floor when they quoted over £600.

Have they really gone up that much, or did they just decide he looked
gullible enough to single handedly fund their Christmas bonus?

Wickes list Facing bricks at £170:86 inc VAT for pallet of 452, so on 1100
it would be about £415.

Yup, saw those - even that seems steep. Last time I looked they were
more like 200 - 250 per thousand.

Builders merchants do try to rip off the public IME. Shop around.

This was not "public" buying in this case though, but a builder! He
pushed em for every discount he could get out of them as well.

It was probably made worse by needing to find a close ish match to a
brick that went out of production (along with its maker) some ten years
back.

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Cheers,

John.

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