The material price index for ‘all work’ increased by 20.1% in July 2021, compared to the same month in 2020, according to the latest data from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), but production, stocks and deliveries of concrete roof tiles have all fallen.
The material price increase was accompanied by a decline in the production of concrete roof tiles, falling by just over 33% from 6.08 million m2 of roof area covered in Q1 2021 to just 3.93 million m2 in Q2 2021, according to ‘The Monthly Statistics of Building Materials and Components’.
However, this is an increase from the 2.24 million m2 in the same quarter in 2020, but is still much lower to the pre-pandemic Q2 2019 figure (5.36 million m2).
Meanwhile, deliveries of concrete roof tiles also fell from 5.92 million m2 of roof area covered in Q1 2021 to 3.99 million m2 in the following quarter. These decreases led to Q2 2021 seeing an all-time low of concrete roof tile stocks, with just 1.66 million m2 of roof area covered, about half of that in the same quarter during the pandemic in 2020 (2.69 million m2).
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