Buying Tiles up North

Yea I did it a few months ago, WELL worth the hassle believe me. We were quoted about €4000 for doing the kitchen alone here, so rented a van for the day for 60 quid, went north and bought practically identical tiles for the kitchen AND tiles for the downstairs bathroom for about €1200. One thing to note is the size of the van you get as our van was very much overloaded driving back with the weight of the tiles

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I know this is an old thread but I'll throw my input in.

My family own a coulpe of tile shops in the midlands so i dont think people going up north for tiles is going to effect it very much.

But anyways, anytime i looked at prices up north i never thought they were any better, and thats being totally honest!

Arma tile are mentioned earlier in the thread, you might get stuff in there cheaper than you would down south as they are a wholesaler to some of the smaller shops. But the bigger ones wouldnt carry much armatile stuff, if any at all.

And im pulling figures out of my behind for Ando here but:

We'll say the kitchen is 50yds and bathroom is 25yds floor and wall

Thats an average of €16 a yard, you'd get 60cmx 60cm polished porcelain in loads of shops for that price, so its not a bad price for 75yds of tiles, but hardly amazing.

If it included adhesive your talking closer to €12, which is very good value, but again there is shops in the south selling the polished porcelain for less than that , there is Galway tileshop doing them for €9.99 and we even have a range at the same price (both ours and theirs are pre sealed)

And finally, if you do go up north, be careful with the van load going home, a pallet of tiles is well on its way to a tonne weight