About Building Supplies Online

Building Supplies Online sells materials to trade and DIY buyers alike, and the Building Supplies Online discount code above applies to that catalogue. Ordering building materials online has its own rules, and they are below.

About Building Supplies Online

A British merchant selling building materials direct rather than through a trade counter, covering the ranges a builders' merchant carries. Buying online changes one thing fundamentally: nobody checks your order for you, so a missing lintel or the wrong plasterboard thickness is discovered on site rather than at the desk.

What they supply

Cement, aggregates and concrete products, insulation boards and rolls, plasterboard and plaster, roofing materials, guttering and drainage, timber and sheet materials, damp-proofing, fixings and tools.

Insulation and plasterboard move in volume, and they are the two categories where getting the specification wrong costs the most.

Ordering the right quantity

Work out the area and then add a waste allowance: roughly a tenth for boards and insulation, more for anything cut to an awkward shape. Running out mid-job costs a day; a spare board costs very little.

Check the thickness and the edge type on plasterboard, since tapered edge is for taping and square edge is for skimming, and they are not interchangeable.

On insulation, the performance figure matters more than the thickness. Two boards of the same depth in different materials do not perform the same, and building regulations are written against performance.

Delivery, which is the part people underestimate

Most of this arrives on a pallet by lorry with a tail lift, delivered kerbside rather than carried through the house. Someone must be there to receive it and to move it.

Check access before ordering. A narrow lane, a parked-up street or a soft verge can stop an articulated lorry entirely, and the delivery charge is rarely refunded for a failed attempt.

Inspect the pallet before signing. Cracked boards and split bags are far easier to raise on the day than afterwards, and the signature is the evidence.

Using a Building Supplies Online discount code

Consolidate the whole job into one delivery before applying the code, because two pallet charges will cost more than any discount saves. Bulk materials and heavy goods are the usual exclusions.