Thursday, September 30, 2010

Builders Merchant and Materials UK

Builders merchant Manchester

Builder’s merchants in Manchester are several and provide varying sources of building materials – you can find building material such as blocks, bricks, timber and lintels as well as interior building material useful for plumbing, flooring, painting decorating material and tools used for it.

Jewson Ltd is the leading merchant with over 500 braches across United Kingdom. They have a branch in Newton Town, Manchester and provide a whole range of building equipment.

If you want to buy timber and timber products such as sheets, window frames or doors, Howarth Timber and Building supplies is the option you want to explore. Howarth has a branch at Glasshouse Street on Oldham Road.

‘BuildBase ‘, whose main one is ‘Cooper Build base’, being a member of Builders Merchants Federation is bound with BMF Industry Charter. They support small and medium sized builders and networks of DIY (Do It Yourself), which is under Scripps Networks Interactive. Buildbase has got links with many sporting merchants like Kawasaki and Oxford FC through DIY.

Wolsely of Manchester (Wolsely centers) is another builder’s merchant who have bath store as well as build center. They are one of the largest suppliers with plumbers come builders.

Crumpsall Plumbers and Builders Merchants located at Station Yard Road is a good choice for plumbing equipment and provides you a range of central heating systems including boiler supplies apart from the other mundane building material such as bricks, blocks and plasterboards.

NQ Fireplace studio is the place you want to go to for a designer fire place. NQ Fireplace is located at Swan Street and will provide your advisory services along with design and installation services.

Ernest Bentley and Sons located at Lady Barn road on Fallow field has a range of building material options from plumbing and roofing options. Bentley is perhaps one of the oldest
independent builder, plumber and roofing merchant and has been in the market for almost 75 years now.

There are of course several other building merchant options in Manchester. Building Merchants such as the Taylor Maxwell which provide brick and masonry solutions, cladding, roofing, timber are in fact even carries out manufacturing of standard wet-cast and semi-dry reconstituted stone products in a range of color and varying finishes.


Selco Builders warehouse at Ardwick, Ashton Moss and Baguley is another building merchant in Manchester. Selco is one of UK’s fastest growing building merchants and has been in the market since 1938. Selco is open on all days of the week and have a variety of products for landscaping and fencing, heating and plumbing, kitchen and bathroom works, electrical and other building material and building tools.
Builders merchant London
Builder’s merchants are especially those who provide building materials required for constructing a building as well as a house. Building materials may include anything from blocks, cement, bricks, doors flooring, materials, ceiling, tiles and tools used for it. Builders merchant in London are many, of which the one which is famous world wide is ‘Jewson Ltd’, once owned by Richard Jewson which is possessed by Saint-Gobain Building Distribution Ltd (SGDB) from April 2000.According to 2001 census the top builders which had maximum sales were Jewson, Wolseley and Travis Perkins.

‘Jewson Ltd.’ became the foremost builder merchant and largest distributor in the whole Europe and they offer about 400,000 different products from the largest suppliers of world. They are supplying timber and its products through ‘Jewson International Timber’ supply. With the help of SGDB Jewson provide services and expertise with products

‘Bathstore’ business is now undertook by Wolsely Plc which had about 170 showrooms by 2007 end, are bathroom retailers and largest in London and they target home owners instead of traders .They were enlisted in Retail Week Awards for Best Specialist retailer in 2007-2008.Wolsely in London is not involved in manufacturing, they are only distributors and sellers.

‘Travis Perkins plc.’ a builder’s merchant based on Northampton is enlisted in London Stock Exchange and is a portion of FTSE 250 index. It was formed when Travis & Arnold merged with Sandell Perkins, which itself acquired company Broad and Co.
‘Wickes’ is DIY Network Company possessed by Travis Perkins with more than 190 stores and is supplier of materials for home and building.

‘Buildbase’, another builder’s merchant has about 130 branches over London. It was discovered in 1996 when Grafton Group amalgamated with Oxford, their first branch came into being. It has specialist tool come equipment lease business called Hirebase of about 50 branches in London. They had been awarded as ‘Best National Builders Merchant’ in Merchant Award for Excellence, several times.

‘Elliott Brothers Ltd.’ is in Southampton of London with 8 branches and have Online Warehouse for Tools and now cover UK completely .They are distributors for leading manufacturers like Bosch, Hitachi, Panasonic, Trend, Belle etc

There are several other builders merchant group in London which you can get through London directory along with the user reviews .Some of them are ‘Lords Builders Merchants’ who have mainly timber stocks, ‘The Worshipful Company of Builders Merchants’ which is one of the Livery companies(nominally trade associated with UK) ‘Marshall’s plc’ which comes even under London Stock Exchange.

‘Handyman corner’ which sells paints, tools glue etc ,’SS Builders’, who are famous for over 20 years, for their materials , ‘Howarth Timbers’, ‘W J Lewis’ are some of them in the large list of builder’s merchant in London.

Building materials Manchester


Building materials may involve anything from bricks, wood, paints, flooring, ceilings to tools required to install all these and it’s useful for construction purpose. For builders near Manchester, there are several centers of builders merchant where Jacks DIY centre, Selco Builders, Manchester Timber, Plastic building materials, Excel Retails Solutions, Welslot Ltd. are some of them .Wickes DIY(Do it Yourself) include materials even for garden buildings, arches, gates , fencing metal etc
‘Jewson Ltd.’, builder’s merchant is the largest among the worldwide builder’s merchants who sell their products to small contractors and to the public and is a division of Meyer Group. They have over 500 branches across London and now are owned by Nazmin Akther. Richard Jewson who was Lord Mayor became the biggest timber merchant. They have established over 54 countries with conglomeration of Saint Gobain. They have entered industrial and consumer market other than construction market giving employment to 20,000 people in London with 3700 retail stores and yearly sales of £11.8 billion. Jewson Ltd. has a branch in Manchester providing timber as their main product.
Travis Perkins is another brand who is leading in the home markets as well as merchandising. Travis Perkins was formed by a merger between Travis & Arnold and Sandell Perkins in 1988.They have acquisitions with several companies like City Plumbing Supplies Ltd., Wickes, Tile Giant, B& G, Commercial Ceiling factors, Sharpe & Fisher etc.
Manchester Plumbing services organization will provide various plumbing services of which some of them are emergency heat repairs, plumbing, tiling for kitchen and bathroom, tap plumbing, boiler repairs and all building services which may involve plumbing
Building can be natural as well as synthetic. Sand, wood, rocks, mud, clay twigs, ice are of natural origin while cement, plastic, concrete, fabric are of synthetic origin.For construction of a building requirements may range from tradesmen for painters, interior decorators, property developers, cleaners, gas installers, electricians, roofers, plumbers etc., each one requiring materials according to their job.

Electrical appliances, bathroom accessories, hand power tools, bricks, blocks, cement house wares, hard wares and other materials needed for building may form the main category. Sub category of building materials involve quick set mortar, deck board, spindle, galvanized coal box, rock salt, sand and cement mortar, timber chipboard, Tarpaulin blue, top felt, aggregates etc. It still can be divided according to the work or trade like paving, walling, plastering, molding, weatherproofing, fencing carpentry, roofing, cladding, coving, insulating etc. each of which requires the materials related to it.


In the UK city, Manchester some of the building material retail outlets are Armagh building materials, Kingston upon Hull, Truro, Inverness, WakeField, Worcester, Cardiff, Leeds, St.Davids building materials etc.