03.07.24

Bucking the trend in building materials

The latest Builders’ Merchants Building Index report detailed sales results for Q1 2024 compared to Q1 2023:

• Sales down 7.2% by value
• Sales down 8.7% by volume
• Prices up by 1.6%

Reasons for this included lowest number of new house builds started in over a decade; exceptionally wet weather; and lack of consumer confidence in the housing market due to high interest rates.

How is AF helping you?

Whilst your AF General Inputs team can’t control the weather, we can control how we negotiate and procure your construction materials.

At the beginning of 2024, rather than leaving the price of your construction materials to chance, we compiled a list of Members’ most frequently procured construction materials and asked all 3 national builders’ merchants to tender for supply of this list of products.

Our goal? To give you certainty not only on price, but also important service levels such as delivery times.

Plan your building projects with confidence that your AF General Inputs team will consistently deliver best value materials procurement and excellent savings. In the first seven weeks of our tender, we saved Members over £12,500 on over 3,300 items they purchased. Since then, we’ve negotiated a new tender which covers more products, so is delivering even better savings for Members. 

Keeping our promise

We’re confident our prices on constructions materials are competitive. So this year we also introduced our Construction Materials Price Promise.

If you find a better price for a product we’ve quoted, and you can produce a valid quote for it, we will match that price.

However large or small your building project, your AF General Inputs team is your one-stop shop for all construction materials.
Get in touch to see how much we can save you by email to generalinputs@af.farm or call 01603 881 914.