The price of bedding!

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Birker2020

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So my favourite Wooburn shavings has gone up in price again!

I used to source massive 22.5kg bales of Metsawood Stable Choice shavings from Buildbase which is a building supplier place in Coventry. We were paying between £6.80 - £8.80 right up until 2020 but then with the outbreak of Covid supply stopped.

So the only thing I could find at a reasonable price was Wooburn, which was until recently £9 a bale. Now this has jumped to £10.75! What's causing these price hikes? I also use pellets which are £10 a bag now! But a bag lasts me 2 weeks and a shavings bale 10 days in the summer. Winter costs are mental though with me getting through a bag of pellets and a bale of shavings every week.

Prior to Dad passing away in 2017 I was getting free shavings my Dad was collecting from a timber yard, beautiful dust free pine shavings. So I was incredibly lucky as I've saved over 12 k of shavings in the 22 years Dad did that for me. Dad said the timber yard said shavings were going up because it was cheaper to export timber products like ready milled frames/doors than timber.
 

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AdorableAlice said:
NI, power and increase in minimum wage.

Cheapest way to buy bedding is on the pallet in bulk.
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Yes you're correct about pallets/bulk buying. I'm luck enough to have space to do this so it's something I will be looking at this winter. They're around £10 each for 48.
 
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When I was a kid and my parents closed the yard we used to go to the local saw mill with duvet covers to collect the sawdust there. they sold it at 50p a bag so a duvet cover was good value. I'm sure the prices have gone up considerably but is it not something you could look at doing again yourself?
 
dorsetladette said:
When I was a kid and my parents closed the yard we used to go to the local saw mill with duvet covers to collect the sawdust there. they sold it at 50p a bag so a duvet cover was good value. I'm sure the prices have gone up considerably but is it not something you could look at doing again yourself?
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Not now. I'm back working. He couldn't only go at certain times to collect shavings, I.e when the lads were on their break and the hopper was shut down.
 
I actually looked at the price of a cardboard chipper to cut up waste cardboard instead of buying it 🙈 but it would take a lot of bales to pay for the machine and then I need a big space to put it 🙈 was tempted though 🤣
 
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