Material Price LookupMaterial Prices Change Weekly. Your Quotes Can’t Be Outdated.
Timber prices fluctuate, copper costs spike, insulation prices change with regulations. Quoting with last month's prices means either losing money or losing the job.
- Material prices fluctuate weekly, especially timber and metals
- Checking multiple supplier websites takes 30+ minutes per quote
- Outdated price lists lead to inaccurate quotes and lost margins
- Bulk vs retail pricing makes comparison shopping complex
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Current Prices, Instantly
The AI searches current prices from major UK suppliers when you're building a quote. Get today's prices for any construction material without leaving the conversation.
Three Simple Steps
Ask for a Price
Type “How much is 100m of 2.5mm twin and earth?” or “Price check: 50 Marley Modern tiles.” The AI understands natural language.
Get Current Prices
The AI searches major suppliers and returns current prices, helping you compare options and find the best value.
Build Accurate Quotes
Prices feed directly into your quotes. No more guessing, no more outdated price lists.
Why Tradesmen Love This
Always Current
Prices searched in real time from major UK suppliers. No stale data, no outdated price lists.
Natural Language
Ask in plain English: “How much is a Worcester Bosch 30i?” No product codes or catalogue references needed.
Built into Quoting
Material prices feed directly into your quote breakdowns. No copy-pasting between websites and spreadsheets.
Compare Options
See prices from multiple suppliers side by side. Find the best value for your customer and your margins.
Save 30+ Minutes
Stop tabbing between supplier websites. Get all the prices you need from one conversation.
Protect Your Margins
Accurate material costs mean accurate quotes. No more underquoting because you guessed a price wrong.
Which materials fluctuate the most and why
Copper is the most volatile material most tradesmen deal with regularly. It trades as a commodity on global markets, and its price swings with supply chain disruptions, energy costs (copper smelting is energy-intensive), and demand from the electric vehicle and renewables sectors competing with construction. A spool of 2.5mm twin and earth that cost £118 one quarter can cost £145 the next. Electricians who quote from memory or an old price list can find themselves significantly out on a large rewire.
Timber has its own volatility, driven by construction demand, Baltic supply chains, and the after-effects of global pandemic-era supply shocks that took years to fully unwind. Insulation prices have been driven up by tightening Part L requirements creating demand spikes. Structural steel is affected by energy costs in production. The materials that fluctuate most are precisely the ones that represent the largest cost lines in a typical trade quote — which is why using live prices matters.
How quoting with outdated prices loses you money
Consider a gas engineer quoting a combi boiler replacement. If their price list is six months old and copper pipe, fittings, and the boiler itself have all crept up in that time, it’s realistic to be £150–£300 out on materials alone on a straightforward installation. On a bathroom refurb, tiles, sanitaryware, and floor adhesive shifting between pricing and starting work can close a margin to near zero if the quote wasn’t built on current prices.
The counter-risk is quoting too high — using old prices and adding a buffer — which loses the job to a competitor who checked current prices and quoted accurately. Either way, not knowing current prices is a losing position. Five minutes of AI-assisted price checking eliminates the guesswork and lets you quote with confidence in both directions.
Materials the AI prices across every trade
For electricians: cable by type and cross-section (twin and earth, SWA, flexible), consumer units, sockets and switches, containment (conduit, trunking), lighting, and accessories. For plumbers: copper and plastic pipe, press fittings, valves and isolation valves, bathroom suites and components, and boiler models including Worcester Bosch, Baxi, and Vaillant. For builders: structural timber, sheet materials (OSB, plywood, MDF), insulation by type, bricks, blocks, cement, sand, and aggregates. For roofers: tiles by type, felt and batten, flashings, lead, and ridge materials. For painters: primer, emulsion, gloss, masonry paint, and specialist coatings.
The AI understands natural language product descriptions, so you can ask “how much is a 30kW Worcester Bosch 4000” rather than a product code, and “what does 20mm polyiso insulation cost per m²” rather than cataloguing through a supplier website. The result is the same as checking each supplier manually — without the thirty minutes of tab-switching.
The Difference
| Metric | Without AI | With AI |
|---|---|---|
| Time to check material prices | 30–60 minutes per quote | Under 2 minutes |
| Price accuracy | Last visit or outdated price list | Current supplier prices |
| Supplier comparison | One at a time, manual | Side by side instantly |
| Margin risk | Regular underquoting when prices rise | Accurate costs, protected margins |
| Materials covered | What you know by memory | Any material, any trade |
Frequently Asked Questions
Which suppliers does it search?
The AI searches publicly available pricing from major UK builders' merchants, electrical wholesalers, plumbing suppliers, and timber merchants.
Are the prices retail or trade?
Prices shown are generally retail/web prices. Your actual trade prices may differ. Use the lookup as a baseline and adjust to your trade account pricing.
Can I look up any construction material?
Yes. The AI handles materials across all trades — timber, electrical components, plumbing fittings, building materials, decorating supplies, roofing materials, and more.
Is the pricing available on the free plan?
Material price lookup is available on Premium and Enterprise plans, which include web search functionality.
Does it show prices including or excluding VAT?
Prices are shown as listed by suppliers, which is typically including VAT for retail prices. The AI notes this so you can adjust when building quotes for VAT-registered customers.
Can I save a material list for jobs I quote regularly?
You can describe a standard job type and the AI will recall the materials and quantities from previous quotes. Saved quote templates are on the feature roadmap for later in 2026.
Does it cover trade-specific materials like Gas Safe fittings?
Yes. The AI understands trade-specific product categories including Gas Safe approved fittings, WRAS-approved plumbing components, and NICEIC-relevant electrical materials. Ask in plain English and it will find what you need.
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