Cheapest Place to Buy Timber? North east-Newcastle/leeds area?

kripel

Plan is to build a rather large summer house and some other stuff,looking at the timber prices here and Im just going crazy with these prices :mad:.
Mind you I'm used to ~£100 per cubic meter you pay in rest of europe , so anything over that seems already expensive for me but anyway Im not even looking at wickes/b&q where they charge like £700 per m3 :rotfl:
Cheapest I have found is something around £300 from some timber yard on ebay, was wondering if anyone knows any cheaper place around the newcastle/leeds area? Im not afraid of traveling a bit as I need lots of it and can transport it myself..

lee111s

Quay timber in Byker, Newcastle.

Used them for a number of projects. My garden decking cost me about £380 for all the materials. In comparison, B&Q was going to be over £800.

kripel

lee111s wrote: »

Quay timber in Byker, Newcastle.

Used them for a number of projects. My garden decking cost me about £380 for all the materials. In comparison, B&Q was going to be over £800.

Obviously cheaper than B&Q however if you check their prices per cubic meter they are more than the 300quid mark which I have already found,so you didnt really got any good deal ,just cheaper than buying from B&Q

SailorSam

Look for a breakers/reclarmation yard.

kripel

SailorSam wrote: »

Look for a breakers/reclarmation yard.

the thing is I have already thought about it, but... they charge almost the same ~300pounds per m3 price for used old crap timber with nails :mad::mad::mad::mad:
I see some are selling boards from pallets for ~250 :rotfl:

The thing is I can Get brand new freshly cut to sizes timber back in central europe for €160/m3 which is like £110 so I really get confused why are they asking here 2.5x more for crap used timber, and trust me none of the UK forrests gets cut down to get this timber they sell here in UK- its mainly imported from russia or eastern europe where it's even cheaper.

Furts

It is called market forces - the price is what you are deemed willing to pay. The money saving option is to think laterally. England and Wales does not have a tradition of building in timber. That is why the majority of houses are brick and block. Timber is too expensive.

There are other market forces - there is an enormous demand for recycled timber to make chipboard and OSB, plus a requirement to avoid used timber going into land fill.

Using chipboard or OSB may reduce your building costs - over to you on this one.

kripel

Furts wrote: »

It is called market forces - the price is what you are deemed willing to pay. The money saving option is to think laterally. England and Wales does not have a tradition of building in timber. That is why the majority of houses are brick and block. Timber is too expensive.

There are other market forces - there is an enormous demand for recycled timber to make chipboard and OSB, plus a requirement to avoid used timber going into land fill.

Using chipboard or OSB may reduce your building costs - over to you on this one.

no it's just called greed and monopoly :rotfl:

wealdroam

kripel wrote: »

no it's just called greed and monopoly :rotfl:

Monopoly?

That's just silly.