Steel

[dave mountain]

Who are people getting the best rates off for steel currently? Usually use dyfeds but time to check my prices i think. Wont be bothering knapmans. NB tube, box, merchant bar and hot rolled plate. Located Devon. Any suggestions?

 

[pellow]

Pulham normally cheapest for me

 

[AJR75]

You have Pulham's and AJN a your closest stockests. Not sure if Parker's venture that far south but are worth a shot, there's also ASAP steel in Ferndown.

 

[mobileweld]

I use AJN but because they are local to me. Anything I need that I don’t have already I get from a small engineering firm in the next town and buy the amount I need. Rather than a full sheet of 25mm I can buy a 200mm by 1000mm length ect.

 

[dave mountain]

I priced pulham and ajn today and they were more expensive than what I'm already paying, parkers were crazy expensive, nearly Austen knapman level pisstakery

 

[AJR75]

Parker's pricing is all over the shop- they beat AJN on a beam enquiry circa £1400 vs £1200. It is a bit of a lottery with them hence we keep trying as sometimes they'll come up trumps. However, a very different company to a few years ago.

 

[dave mountain]

Parker's pricing is all over the shop- they beat AJN on a beam enquiry circa £1400 vs £1200. It is a bit of a lottery with them hence we keep trying as sometimes they'll come up trumps. However, a very different company to a few years ago.

Had a big beam (356x171 iirc) off Dyfeds a while back £700, knapmans quoted £2000 for the same

 

[B R C]

I’ve been using AJN for a good while now but when I ordered a tonne of fairly small box, 40x40 up to 100x50 Parkers were £400 cheaper! I’ve only had two lots from Parker but you need to do a list of what you want on the website and create an enquiry from it then ring them up with enquiry ref and they’ll give their best price.

 

[carpenter1]

Dyfed were the cheapest I found for beams a month ago.
Knapman all but double