Can I Save Money with a Builder’s Merchant?

Building your own home will, for many of you, represent the biggest shopping trip of your life. Even on modest projects you’ll be looking at material costs running into £10,000s – and in fact, most schemes will easily hit six figures.

Unsurprisingly, there’s no shortage of retailers waiting to relieve you of your hard-earned cash; but how can you decide where best to spend it? With the now ubiquitous presence of the internet offering up seemingly endless choice and frequently very competitive prices, why don’t we just buy everything online?

I’m going to explain why I would always recommend considering more traditional routes – and how you can get maximum value for money.

What are builder’s merchants?

Merchants have been around for as long as we’ve been constructing houses, but for many years they dealt almost exclusively with the building trades.

People in hard hats and rigger boots would drop in to order obscure items from racks with no prices displayed on them – and then charge the whole lot to a trade account for payment well into the future. In truth, it was all a bit of a closed shop. Regular clients could expect pretty hefty discounts.

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