diggerjones
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There should be more of that over here. Its all work work work then die over here.
doobin
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Aren’t you self employed? Choose your hours!
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
most big places have a maintenance schedule planned well in advance and usually timed around holiday periods to minimise production disruption with staff off
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
never works that way though, does it .... hay and sunshine
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DaveDCB
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Jimoz
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Who's old enough to remember July fortnight? It was massive here in Leicester to do with the hosiery
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DaveDCB
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Who remembers when builders used to have two weeks of at Easter and pretty much all building works stopped!
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
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Jimoz
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Skeggy here. The glazers I use still do July fortnight. Nightmare when you need summat
diggerjones
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The potteries fortnight is last week in july and first week in August
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
IIRC 'twas miner's fortnight too
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Quarryop
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Aggregates in NI runs about £14 ton for sand and stone, not sure about hard rock stone. some places £10-12 ton for cash last time i looked but im sure its up a bit with all the price hikes, Timber has tripled in price in a year and i have never seen so many log carriers on the roads in last few weeks. Looks like greed will get the better of the timber producers and the will flood the market hopefully and bring down the price. Heard of a guy a couple of weeks ago had originally planned to build his house with blocks but changed to timber frame for a cheaper build but with the shortage and volatility of wood price in since start of the year has went through the roof and he's switching back to blocks again. Its mad, I have to go looking for timber this week for a garden fence that needs replaced this week and never mind trying to find the materials I'm not looking forward to the price. Wish I hadn't put it off last year
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DaveDCB
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Just been told that floor boards are going up 60% in august! Already gone up as it is!!
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Chase Building
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Who's told you that?
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DaveDCB
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Owner of our local sawmills/timber supplier. Less than ideal isn’t it! Already had a 25% increase on it last month! It can’t be sustained something is going to blow soon and I don’t think the consequences will be pretty!!
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Chase Building
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Americans on YouTube are saying it's hit it's peak and is on the way down but they're confident they won't see OSB for ten dollars a sheet again.
Summer shutdowns definitely won't help things short term either side of the Atlantic.
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bobthebuilder
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osb goes up 50% next week ,timber goes up 25 to 45 % ,just ordered 8 grands worth of timber for a job later in the year
Regy53
I like cake
We have seen a incredible slow down the past week - 10 days. Perhaps people have their kit.. phones dead
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fred
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stamp duty holiday is ending. foot coming off the gas to push out builds. materials are getting a bit too tasty, some sites slowing right down.
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DaveDCB
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I guess people are thinking why buy kit if they have no materials(or seriously overpriced at that) to use them with?
just selling a big house at the moment,so hopefully that market holds up a little longer!
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