Chancery and Millstone Prices
I'm looking for a good price on either Marshall's Chancery or StoneMarket's Millstone.
I normally get a half decent price on building materials from Jewson's in Reading, but they are quoting about £26 ex. VAT / m2. This seems quite expensive to me!
Any advice on guide prices and recommended suppliers appreciated.
I normally get a half decent price on building materials from Jewson's in Reading, but they are quoting about £26 ex. VAT / m2. This seems quite expensive to me!
Any advice on guide prices and recommended suppliers appreciated.
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look at Westminster Stone's Old Yorkshire Street, or Old Lancashire Mill Flags (www.westminsterstone.com)
They bought out my pet BM about 4 years ago, and overnight, prices went up by around 35%. I had been paying 6.30 per square metre for CBPs and T-Bloody-P put them up to 8.50...with immediate effect!!
I'd been dealing with that BM since he first opened for business back in the late 1970s - in fact, it was me and me Dad that concreted their yard, but as soon as Travis Bloody perkins bought them out, the prices went up and the level of service plummetted. All of a sudden, it wasn't a case of, "We'll get those blocks to you first thing, Tony", but a matter of "We have to run some flags up to the Bolton branch for one of their customers, so it will be dinnertime before you get your delivery".
And it wasn't only me - in the space of 3 months, every groundworker and paving gang worth their salt had stopped dealing with them.
Where do they get those prices? A few weeks back, they wanted 18 quid for a 25kg block of roofing pitch that I can get from a one-man band roofing supplier for 8.50 quid. And have you seen their list prices for summat like Chancery Flags or Chapelgate Clay Pavers??? Jeez!!
I'd been dealing with that BM since he first opened for business back in the late 1970s - in fact, it was me and me Dad that concreted their yard, but as soon as Travis Bloody perkins bought them out, the prices went up and the level of service plummetted. All of a sudden, it wasn't a case of, "We'll get those blocks to you first thing, Tony", but a matter of "We have to run some flags up to the Bolton branch for one of their customers, so it will be dinnertime before you get your delivery".
And it wasn't only me - in the space of 3 months, every groundworker and paving gang worth their salt had stopped dealing with them.
Where do they get those prices? A few weeks back, they wanted 18 quid for a 25kg block of roofing pitch that I can get from a one-man band roofing supplier for 8.50 quid. And have you seen their list prices for summat like Chancery Flags or Chapelgate Clay Pavers??? Jeez!!