Hi
Anyone noticed the pricing of Wickes & B&Q 18mm MDF sheets?
Full 2440 x 1220 sheets are around £15 - a good price, about £5.00 per sq mtr.
But a half sheet 2440 x 607 in Wickes is actually dearer than a full sheet at £15.45 - more than twice the price per sq mtr - roughly £10. B&Q want over £15 for an 1819 x 607.
A quarter sheet 1220 x 607 is even worse @ nearly £11 in both stores.
OK, charge a premium price for smaller sheets but surcharges of over 100% and nearly 200% are simply excessive. I'd never realised just how much extra you paid for a smaller sheet.
Full sheets are simply too heavy for a one man band like me to manage, so I need to be able to buy smaller sizes.
I simply don't want to be ripped off like this, so I started to shop around. B&Q at the other end of the towns have a cutting service, but there is always a long wait for the droid. Bizarrely, if you wanted two 1220 x 607 sheets though, it would be cheaper to have them cut from a full sheet & leave the rest behind!
Found a local independent timber yard who charge about the same as Wickes/B&Q for a full sheet and 50p per cut to any size you want. And they cut it accurately.
Dave - The Medway Handyman