Home DIY

Just about every 'trade' centre I've ever used (except buildbase/just changed its name) even with a reasonable spend account I've been running for over 10 years give mental pricing on just about anything except basic building materials.
Last week needed some Hep20 15mm inserts, TS + SCFX were about £20 for a pack of 50 inc vat, often cheaper than that, but thats the rrp basically.
Jewson wanted £48 inc vat and thats 'with the trade discount mate'. Its like over double the retail of the item, and thats on account with £25-50k PA spend on it with Jewson alone.

In Glasgow at least we've got a heating parts centre called 'Mr Central Heating', who are pretty sound, you can go in as a tradee or as a walk off the street customer, receive sensible non thumb man'splained advise, receive sensible pricing that doesn't make you have to come up with an excuse why you aren't buying it from them, and they usually have it in stock or within a few days.
More places like that would be great as often you go into somewhere like howden's and ask for 'kitchen kick panel', and they'll look at you like you just crapped in their tea, because everyone's supposed to know in howden's its called 'lower vanity cover 2a' or some such term.