Giles
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no, managed to get £12 off a sheet I think but still was far to tasty
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
no question
make hay Ross
2007/8 was some recession ... the couple of years leading up to it were similar .... prices going ballistic ... steel had climbed from £550/t to circa £1250-1300, with some sections up at £1800/t ....
I was quoting work with a 7 day validity on quotes ... had no idea WTF the prices'd be the following week ....
things started to slow due the cost of everything and work was getting postponed and shelved, but we were all muddling along ......
.... I'd sold my yard, subject to planning/contract in the July and had a big deposit in the solicitor's bank a/c .............
then the press/media started spouting the 'R' word and the whole bloody system collapsed globally .
Virtually everything fell apart, including my yard sale - they went tits up - a national - and things were pretty grim for soooome time ....
when it eventually came back to some sort of normality, two-ish years down the road, steel was back to £650/t and stayed there, or thereabouts, for quite a while. As did a lot of other stuff.
A crash is inevitable ... no question ... current levels of all sorts of things are unsustainable long term ........
as sure as eggs are eggs, the media will be the cause of / catalyst for the next crash, as they have been for most of the previous recessions, going back to the early '80s ...
saw, sat out and survived several, over my biz lifetime ...
keep yer rainy day funds well stuffed and only buy what you need
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Giles
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my quote was for £18 now for type 1 today delivered 12 miles, at one point I was paying £7.50 8 years ago for it delivered 3 miles
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
8.6% ... better than a solid **** off
Shovelhands
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Type 1 granite is circa £29 per tonne here
GazCro
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On a slightly different tangent I heard recently that one local quarry is anticipating subbase and single size agg going up 70p per ton as of April to cover the change to white diesel.
Danny
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I was quoted late December - A393 Mesh - 4.8m x 2.4m - 23 sheets - £177 per sheet
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
that's over £2,800/t FFS ...... 61.6kg/panel .. was always a premium on fabric mesh but bloody hell, not 100+% ..... that's 1000% outright profiteeringI was quoted late December - A393 Mesh - 4.8m x 2.4m - 23 sheets - £177 per sheet
JD450A
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I've said it since 2019..... things where too good then. The financial stimulus created by Covid Grants created a Bubble in Mid 2020 and before that bubble popped 2020 saw thousands of pounds worth of spending that people couldn't take abroad on holiday...... 2021 has seen money exodusing london at a fair rate and spread around the country.
But 2022..... Early May we will see it hit I suspect........
pettsy
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20% increase on wheelbarrows
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DaveDCB
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I know, the wife’s birthday present has just gotten expensive
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DaveDCB
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So they have actually implemented the January price rise to fill effect this time! Glad I filled my yard with as much of it as I could before Xmas!
Furniss
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We got 6% on aggregates 1st Jan and will get similar with white diesel apparently.
Wouldn't like to be building, with a lot of prices to keep your eye on.
We have plenty on in 22 already but I think this spring and whether we get that wave of enquiries will be the first indication.
And as for predictions wheres all the small kit that was going to flood the market when people started paying bounce back ?
Wouldn't like to be building, with a lot of prices to keep your eye on.
We have plenty on in 22 already but I think this spring and whether we get that wave of enquiries will be the first indication.
And as for predictions wheres all the small kit that was going to flood the market when people started paying bounce back ?
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DaveDCB
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Lancs Lad
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Until we fully open up and foreign holidays are the norm again I think this craziness will continue ..another 12 months at least...
Until folk have things to spend their dough on ... 
Try and get any tradesman .... impossible all booked up till summer here.
Until folk have things to spend their dough on ... Try and get any tradesman .... impossible all booked up till summer here.
TiltyShaun
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I totally understand with everything that you state above. There is only one difference that I see. My worry is currently inflation with all this money printing that has occurred. History would normally tell us that it will lead to inflation. The difference I see is that the money printing is happening all over the world rather than in isolation in an individual country. We know the convention dictates higher interest rates, but I am not convinced the governments have the ability or will to raise them high enough. The collapse is almost certainly coming. Evergrande in China being the start.no question
make hay Ross
2007/8 was some recession ... the couple of years leading up to it were similar .... prices going ballistic ... steel had climbed from £550/t to circa £1250-1300, with some sections up at £1800/t ....
I was quoting work with a 7 day validity on quotes ... had no idea WTF the prices'd be the following week ....
things started to slow due the cost of everything and work was getting postponed and shelved, but we were all muddling along ......
.... I'd sold my yard, subject to planning/contract in the July and had a big deposit in the solicitor's bank a/c .............
then the press/media started spouting the 'R' word and the whole bloody system collapsed globally .
Virtually everything fell apart, including my yard sale - they went tits up - a national - and things were pretty grim for soooome time ....
when it eventually came back to some sort of normality, two-ish years down the road, steel was back to £650/t and stayed there, or thereabouts, for quite a while. As did a lot of other stuff.
A crash is inevitable ... no question ... current levels of all sorts of things are unsustainable long term ........
as sure as eggs are eggs, the media will be the cause of / catalyst for the next crash, as they have been for most of the previous recessions, going back to the early '80s ...
saw, sat out and survived several, over my biz lifetime ...
keep yer rainy day funds well stuffed and only buy what you need
Assets rather than cash is my current thinking as some sort of currency reset is certainly on the cards. It may will be the Chinese are hoarding gold for a reason.
Canal Navvy
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Wheelbarrows are always subject to inflation
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6feetdown
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12% on plasterboard again ffs. Looks to me like its purposely being done to make it go bang. Then the investment companies will come in and buy the repossessions then rent back out.Wheelbarrows are always subject to inflation
"You will own nothing and be happy"
Regy53
I like cake
Not really, genuinly its never been harder to make a quid here, we have empty real estate costing money with no stock, it sells fast but we are paying way over the odds for it still and making less at the other end. Customers call but you cant sell from a empty shop. We got two dumpers in and sold them without even a advert. I still have no stock. Its tricky
I almost want it too. Bring us all back down to earth but just not sure. Jobs surely are getting to expensive now.
The pound broke support yesterday to be the strongest agaisnt the euro since oct 19. Previous to that it was 2014 really. The UK is flying compared to others.
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Smiffy
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I think some of that is due to a lot of Europe still not being allowed to go to work.
I think a crash is inevitable we just have to position ourselves as best we can for when it comes.
Whilst it may not whether very well having money in the bank, it will be far worse for those with there lives on tick
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