I need to replace the guttering on my in laws bungalow. I want to use standard half round guttering in Black. Do any of you know of any cheap suppliers either online or high street? I have looked at both Screwfix and BES. On a total of just over £200 from S/F they are coming out cheaper by about £50 , before I place the order on S/F any other options?
TIA
John
How much is it from your local builder's merchant's? If you use them and hit last minute snags you can usually get more or advice over the counter straight away.
Try a roofing supplier, my company pays £4.05 for a length of standard gutter. Bear in mind though, we buy in bulk.
Have you considered having seamless aluminium gutters fitted. It's not a DIY job because they have to be manufactured on site from a roll of flat aluminium sheet. Whilst costing more than the plastic raw materials for a DIY job, they're not *that* expensive - and look really smart with their black, white or brown powder coating.
We had my father-in-law's bungalow done with this stuff last year (together with uPVC cladding on the soffits and fascias) and it looks *dramatically* better than the old asbestos gutters and downpipes.
[Not sure whether this was the sort of "other option" you had in mind!]
I get better discounts if I look like trade.
Yep, and remember to leave the gold card at home and that everybody's name is "mate". Mate.
.andy
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Spouse wears his boiler suit.
But he wears it all the time ... recently he said he might as well be buried in it.
I thought that was a depilitary ...
Mary
I recently broke a shoulder strap buckle on mine. I couldn't bare the thought of having to start off with a brand spanking new _clean_ boiler suit -- it's taken 5 years of plumbing and plastering to get it looking like it does today. So I taped up the broken buckle with gaffer tape, which simply gives it a little bit more street cred!
Oh I insist on Spouse's overalls being washed once a week. He has three so is never without.
The stains remain, it's the smell which goes with laundering. I don't mind the stains, as you say they make them look real but I can't bear smelly men ...
... or women.
Mary
...Or 'matey' when you get to know them.
David
I wanted some Marshall's paving. Local suppliers were listed as Jewson and Travi Perkins. The staff in Jewson were total f**kwits who couldn't find what I wanted on the computer and told me I had to check the stock for myself out in the yard. This is *after* they told me they could deliver it the following day.
Needless to say I went to Travis Perkins who (supposedly) gave me 30% discount (I still need to check the prices with other suppliers to verify this). I was dressed quite smartly, obviously not trade, so I assume it was because I told them how much better than Jewson their service was. Another tactic to try.
MBQ
"Mary Fisher" wrote | Spouse wears his boiler suit. | But he wears it all the time ... recently he said he might as well | be buried in it.
This /might/ amuse you. You can do a search-and-replace on 'suit' for 'boiler suit' if you want.
Owain
An old lady is very upset as her husband Albert had just passed away. She went to the undertakers to have one last look at her dearly departed husband. The instant she saw him she starts crying. One of the undertakers strides up to provide comfort in this sombre moment. Through her tears she explains that she is upset because her dearest Albert was wearing a black suit, and it was his dying wish to be buried in a blue suit. The undertaker apologises and explains that traditionally, they always put the bodies in a black suit, but he'd see what he could arrange.
The next day she returned to the undertakers to have one last moment with Albert before his funeral the following day.
When the undertaker pulls back the curtain, she manages to smile through her tears as Albert is resplendent in a smart blue suit. She says to the undertaker "Wonderful, wonderful, but where did you get that beautiful blue suit?"
"Well, yesterday afternoon after you left, a man about your husband's size was brought in & he was wearing a blue suit. His wife explained that she was very upset as he had always wanted to be buried in a black suit," the undertaker replied. The wife smiled at the man.
He continued, "After that, it was simply a matter of swapping the heads"
Not a boiler suit, then. Boiler suits are designed to keep as much of the person clean as possible, so have sleeves.
IME Travis Perkins are sods to get trade discount from, so you're lucky! I think they are very expensive if you don't get trade, and I tend to avoid them like the plague; however sometimes for reasonably specialised stuff that Wickes and Screwfix don't carry, I have no choice. I know of bona fide tradesmen who also don't get any discount there, because they don't do enough volume.
Interestingly I recently spotted at
David
search-and-replace
We spend a lot of time in various period clothing and we are also involved in archaeology and are interested in grave goods. I asked Spouse about his burial clothing because of that, he might have chosen Roman, Viking, Norman, C15th, Georgian or Victorian. He chose his boiler suit.
But undertakers won't be involved in our funerals, it's already organised! they will be strictly DIY arrangements!
Mary
Ask at a BM or plumbing supplier. If you buy 4m lengths this may reduce wastage. Clip every 1m minimum. To get 4m lengths in a car, fold them in half, un-fold ASAP to prevent them becoming kinked.
J.B.
Discount depends on attitude and knowledge as much as anything; having an account or even a cash card helps too! Just *ask* if there's discount, that's the easiest way, or say that {TP, G&D, Jewson, Buildbase[,whoever]} can do it at X, can you beat it? Dressing up, putting on a funny accent, or calling people "matey" is a very good way to put peoples backs up and lose the chance of discount!
J.B.
It didn't work for me last time. Jewsons wanted 2.30 a bag of 10mm gravel after supposed discounts, which B&Q did for 1.28. They couldn't match that. In the end I had to go to Slough, as Reading had sold out (which is why I was trying Jewson in the first place).
When going to builder's merchants, I try to arrive in my Peugeot Boxer van with a tatty trailer wearing dirty (from cement) jeans and T-shirt. I think I manage to fool them!
Christian.
Hey, it works! Went in to TP yesterday for some bits, and just waving the card produced a 20% discount. (When I bought the same stuff a month or so back, sans card, I was told 'no discount'). So for anybody needing to use TP I can definitely recommend this.
David
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