A friend needs a couple of lorry loads of gravel in Northern France
So whats the french for builders merchant ?
OK its clearly off topic - french builders merchants
Jul 16, 2007
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Brico D=E9p=F4t France
Similar to B&Q (owned by Kingfisher too!)
Kingfisher owns Castorama as well as Brico Depot.
Bricolage is the French description for DIY (roughly meaning fiddling and tinkering).
Castorama is roughly like B&Q. Brico Depot is down market and looks more like a poorly presented version of Wickes. It claims to have more of a trade focus and certainly in one that I went in recently had aggregates etc. However, they were prepackaged like Wickes and certainly not inexpensive.
A Google for keywords "materiaux" "construction" will yield a number of places that sell bulk materials.
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You shout "BUILDERS MERCHANT" in a loud, slow voice and wave your arms around a bit !
Terry W.
Non! Youaye wantaye Quaryaye. Eh?
Look for matériaux de construction.
Colin Bignell
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