RMI

BMBI

26 March 2025

BMBI: Builders’ Merchants value sales down -2.3% in January year-on-year, with flat volume sales and prices down -2.3%

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The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report shows builders’ merchants value sales in January were down -2.3% compared to the same month in 2024. Volume sales were flat (+0.0%) and prices slipped -2.3%. There was no difference in trading days.

BMBI

18 December 2024

BMBI: October Merchant sales rally with a +7.3% month-on-month increase

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The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report shows builders’ merchants’ value sales in October were up +1.2% compared to the same month last year.

BMBI

27 November 2024

BMBI: Q3 Merchant value sales rose +1.7% quarter-on-quarter

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The latest total value sales figures from Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) show that sales for Q3 2024 were down -2.6% compared to Q3 2023.

BMBI

27 March 2024

BMBI: Tentative start to 2024 as January value sales slip

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The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report shows builders’ merchants’ value sales were down -2.1% in January compared to the same month in 2023.

BMBI

01 March 2023

BMBI: Nominal uplift in Q4 2022 – inflation driving growth

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The BMBI’s latest total value sales data from Britain’s Builders’ Merchants shows Q4 2022 recorded +2.9% year-on-year growth.

10 January 2023

Encasement: Tenant satisfaction, maintenance & pipe boxing

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Although concealing pipework for sprinklers, heating systems and utilities will form only part of the full scope of RMI activities provided by HA and LA’s, the potential for minimising the impact on tenants can be aided using Encasement pre-formed pipe boxing and casings.

Vent-Axia

02 November 2022

Vent Axia: Landlords Need to Consider Condensation and Mould as Energy Crisis Looms

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As the energy crisis gather pace, households are increasingly likely to be in the position where they are unable to afford to properly heat their homes this winter. Vent Axia has more…

BMBI

25 October 2022

BMBI: August merchant sales are up, but volume is down and inflation’s still climbing

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The latest figures from the Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI), published in October, reveal that builders’ merchants’ value sales were +10.0% up in August 2022 compared to the same month in 2021.

UKCW

21 September 2021

UKCW: Exclusive report lifts lid on future of booming home improvements market

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A new analysis of the booming market for home RMI (repair, maintenance and improvement) work is forecasting it could be worth more than £22bn a year by 2025, explains UKCW.

Encasement

09 March 2021

Encasement’s pre-formed pipe boxing and casings conceal unsightly pipework

Posted on by Max Banner

Encasement’s pre-formed plywood casings have been the preferred solution for social housing RMI for decades and this continues to be the case.