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?
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Probably about right as some bricks, especiaslly LBC's, have gone up considerably. I recently had some heathers at =A3450 per thousand plus Vat. Surprisingly though there are also some bargains about. EH Smiths are knocking out Oxten red multi's at =A3185 per thou plus vat??
Regards Legin
Yup, these were LBC...
Not bad... alas not going to match the existing in this case.
Wickes list Facing bricks at £170:86 inc VAT for pallet of 452, so on 1100 it would be about £415.
Builders merchants do try to rip off the public IME. Shop around.
Yup, saw those - even that seems steep. Last time I looked they were more like 200 - 250 per thousand.
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.
They're not likely to get any cheaper, either, since the chances are that LBC's Stuartby brickworks will close in the near future, having been given an ultimatum by the Environment Agency about the foul emissions.
OTOH, if there's a recession/house price collapse, demand will fall.
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