Regy53
I like cake
its no wonder boats etc are so expensive now
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
oh yes .....
a 45ft hull used to be going around 6t of materials and was dear enough with those at 500 quid a tonne ....
will still take the same amount of labour as it used to, but that will have gone up too, since IIRC 2008 (last time i built a hull) .. God knows what a new hull costs ATM
Furniss
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Wood will be making a comebackoh yes .....
a 45ft hull used to be going around 6t of materials and was dear enough with those at 500 quid a tonne ....
will still take the same amount of labour as it used to, but that will have gone up too, since IIRC 2008 (last time i built a hull) .. God knows what a new hull costs ATM
Regy53
I like cake
Our boat has increased from 70 ish k to 100 plus since covid (67ft) I wondered if it was just people wanted to get away in the uk now I see it’s full on to expensive lots of steel, lots of timber and lots of labour = 3 very expensive things right nowoh yes .....
a 45ft hull used to be going around 6t of materials and was dear enough with those at 500 quid a tonne ....
will still take the same amount of labour as it used to, but that will have gone up too, since IIRC 2008 (last time i built a hull) .. God knows what a new hull costs ATM
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
not the way that's going up tooWood will be making a comeback
Furniss
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Regy53
I like cake
I know right. Was just very lucky for once. Just shows how much somthing like that increased that isn’t bricks and mortar. Not worth anything as if we sold I would buy another so in the end it will net out to inflationMy heart bleeds for you Ross
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6feetdown
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Search for Black Pearl Yacht, piece of engineering that
Giles
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
taking the piss surelyTravis Perkins at it again popped in other day for some ducting, they only had orange 110mm street light duct so grabbed two rolls and rushing didbt query price! Bill today for £350 a roll£700! For 100m of duct ffs
Regy53
I like cake
Thwaites put there prices up a considerable amount last week, apparently a lot of their steel was from Ukraine... Gone up over 1k on a 6 tonne dumper alone
We have letter after letter of price increases...
Honestly cant see how it goes on
We have letter after letter of price increases...
Honestly cant see how it goes on
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
one of the best pieces of steel, dimensionally, i've ever bought, came from Russia .. can't recall the mill name .. had labels on it ... 305 x 305 x 97 ... was absolutely perfect mill tolerances and perfectly square and true ... always remembered it 'cos it was so bang on
GazCro
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That's the tatty products wayTravis Perkins at it again popped in other day for some ducting, they only had orange 110mm street light duct so grabbed two rolls and rushing didbt query price! Bill today for £350 a roll
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bobthebuilder
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never been able to buy feck all from travis ,go in and ask ,they say cant give you much discount as you dont buy much .
Furniss
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5m3 conc today was 576€ + vat .....didn't think that was bad 
GazCro
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Spooned some conc in some founds today with digger for builder was surprised when i asked conc price just under £77 + vat a meter!
Ps, 2 piece boom doesn't half come into its own with bucket on backwards.
Ps, 2 piece boom doesn't half come into its own with bucket on backwards.
Canal Navvy
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Horrible when you get out of dimension sections particularly if you get a mix in one order, much time wasted trying to extract a silk purse from a sows ear
305 x 305 x 97 still wakes me up in a cold sweat !!
What the boss said was "just put the max arc and the gas in the back of your land rover and nip up to Abingdon for the afternoon, they want some ten foot squares welded up out of four inch channel "
Arrived on site and couldn't see any four inch channel but was introduced to my pile of twelve 305 x 305 x 97 x 7000&7610 .
When he was pricing he assumed that 305x305x97UC meant 305cmx305cmx97mm U shaped
Fortunately he had also said take an overnight bag and go out for a beer with the lads
GazCro
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That's similar to my experience, closed my account as i didn't use it enough because as i told them every time i do you try and rip me off. Shame really as nearest TP branch is within 2 miles of home and any other merchant is at least 20 mile away.never been able to buy feck all from travis ,go in and ask ,they say cant give you much discount as you dont buy much .
Giles
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This was that tp close by no one else had any duct from my normal lot, already had 2000m 32mm on the trailer so didbt want to go 15 miles to civils yard. Even said to guy in tp best be getting trade price, if they f**k around I’ll order 2 from Cottrill’s and return them to TP lol
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DaveDCB
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What’s stupid is I was going to say ‘that’s cheap!!’
How quickly are we all to accept these stupid prices and just crack on!! No wonder they are getting away with such huge price hikes!
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