Pretty sure most of you have encountered serious issues regarding shortages recently.
The industry is approaching crisis point IMO. I work in the Commercial and Industrial sector and our materials from the biggest suppliers we use generally have a 2-3 week lead-in from point of order, delivery of cutting lines.
At the moment we are being advised that orders placed NOW, will have an earliest delivery date of October and everything is on a first come first basis atm. In other words, if I don't have an order to place in the next few weeks, with everyone jumping in to order theirs, then I shouldn't expect to get a hold of materials from these suppliers any time this year.
That is absolutely disastrous... what's worse is you can't explain this to clients and have them get it into their skull... they'll still take an age to move things through the process, the Main Contractor QS's will still leave orders to the last minute as they hawk the project around trying to get the cheapest possible price and then they will expect us to take these material price hikes on the chin.
That's before I get on to the drastic increases in prices which has already happened and anticipated on a near monthly basis for the rest of the year.
This is by no means a UK based thing either... I watched a YT video from Renovision who was talking about his local plasterboard stockist, who normally boasts of having 1000 boards in stock at all time, having 2nr damaged boards available.
What have you been experiencing and what do you think about the situation?
The industry is approaching crisis point IMO. I work in the Commercial and Industrial sector and our materials from the biggest suppliers we use generally have a 2-3 week lead-in from point of order, delivery of cutting lines.
At the moment we are being advised that orders placed NOW, will have an earliest delivery date of October and everything is on a first come first basis atm. In other words, if I don't have an order to place in the next few weeks, with everyone jumping in to order theirs, then I shouldn't expect to get a hold of materials from these suppliers any time this year.
That is absolutely disastrous... what's worse is you can't explain this to clients and have them get it into their skull... they'll still take an age to move things through the process, the Main Contractor QS's will still leave orders to the last minute as they hawk the project around trying to get the cheapest possible price and then they will expect us to take these material price hikes on the chin.
That's before I get on to the drastic increases in prices which has already happened and anticipated on a near monthly basis for the rest of the year.
This is by no means a UK based thing either... I watched a YT video from Renovision who was talking about his local plasterboard stockist, who normally boasts of having 1000 boards in stock at all time, having 2nr damaged boards available.
What have you been experiencing and what do you think about the situation?
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