Most people's mental picture of a builders' merchant is a yard full of sand and gravel heaps with maybe a few fence panels leaning against a wall. That picture was probably accurate thirty years ago. Walk round a proper merchant's yard today and you'll find a genuine...
Order too little aggregate and you're looking at a second delivery, a delayed job, and a driveway half-finished over a weekend when the yard's shut. Order too much and you've got a heap of MOT Type 1 sat on the drive for months. Getting the sum right the first time...
Ask ten people what a builders' merchant is, and half of them will just say "the place with the sand out front." That's not far off, but it misses the point. A builders' merchant isn't a shop that happens to sell building stuff. It's set up around how a building...
