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Before Covid, keeping on top of the price of materials was relatively straightforward. It doesn’t seem that long ago that you only had price increases once a year — at worst, maybe an unexpected rise halfway through the year.
In the past, come November, I would sit down with the rep from the suppliers I was using and we would look at my spend and then break it down into sections — aggregates, bricks and blocks, insulation, carcassing, plaster, sheet materials etc. I would tell them my predicted spend in each area and we would have a ‘discussion’ over the increases they’d been given by manufacturers and eventually agree on what