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Mike Mike
I live in Sweden, and here a flexible S1 adhesive can cost between £1 and £2 per KG!
I've looked at the U.K. prices and they're definitely cheaper, but still vary a great deal between sellers, and are still around £0.50 - 0.85 per kilo.
So, being that it's Sunday night, and Swedish TV is even worse than that dreadful Channel 4 programme "You Deserve This House", I started looking on Alibaba.
Ignoring the 3rd world manufacturers, I stumbled across a bunch of Spanish tile adhesive and grout manufacturers. Never heard of them, never used their products, but assume that as Spain knows a thing or two about tiles and tiling, and that the products are certified to EU classification standards (C1, C2 etc) and the companies are ISO9001 certified, that maybe they work.
None of them quoted prices, you'd need to contact them and then initiate a dialogue.
However, there was a Spanish WHOLESALER who was offering C1 adhesive for 2 EURO's for 20kg bags, and C2TE S1 flexible adhesive for 6 EUROs a bag (min order qty 1 container, 20 tonnes). Manufactured by Spanish companies.
So why exactly do we pay so much for Italian (Mapei), British (BAL), Danish (Alfix, LIP), Finnish (Kiilto), French (Bostik) adhesive?
There was a separate post on here today about fuel prices, which prompted me to Google search the world's cheapest country for petrol. It is Venezuela at 2 pence per litre. 2 pence. What are you paying? £1.40 ish? What's more, Venezuela doesn't refine it's own petrol, it exports crude to the U.S., which refines it and exports it back, and they can STILL sell it to their citizens for 2 PENCE a litre, and the oil companies can still post billions in profits!
You and I pay SEVENTY TIMES MORE for ours.
And the country with the highest petrol prices in the world? NORWAY! That wonderful country who's only real source of income, apart from pilchards, is North Sea oil, charges £1.64 per litre for petrol. Or, 82 times more than Venezuela.
I have no idea what it all means, but I'm not happy about it.
Who's with me?
I've looked at the U.K. prices and they're definitely cheaper, but still vary a great deal between sellers, and are still around £0.50 - 0.85 per kilo.
So, being that it's Sunday night, and Swedish TV is even worse than that dreadful Channel 4 programme "You Deserve This House", I started looking on Alibaba.
Ignoring the 3rd world manufacturers, I stumbled across a bunch of Spanish tile adhesive and grout manufacturers. Never heard of them, never used their products, but assume that as Spain knows a thing or two about tiles and tiling, and that the products are certified to EU classification standards (C1, C2 etc) and the companies are ISO9001 certified, that maybe they work.
None of them quoted prices, you'd need to contact them and then initiate a dialogue.
However, there was a Spanish WHOLESALER who was offering C1 adhesive for 2 EURO's for 20kg bags, and C2TE S1 flexible adhesive for 6 EUROs a bag (min order qty 1 container, 20 tonnes). Manufactured by Spanish companies.
So why exactly do we pay so much for Italian (Mapei), British (BAL), Danish (Alfix, LIP), Finnish (Kiilto), French (Bostik) adhesive?
There was a separate post on here today about fuel prices, which prompted me to Google search the world's cheapest country for petrol. It is Venezuela at 2 pence per litre. 2 pence. What are you paying? £1.40 ish? What's more, Venezuela doesn't refine it's own petrol, it exports crude to the U.S., which refines it and exports it back, and they can STILL sell it to their citizens for 2 PENCE a litre, and the oil companies can still post billions in profits!
You and I pay SEVENTY TIMES MORE for ours.
And the country with the highest petrol prices in the world? NORWAY! That wonderful country who's only real source of income, apart from pilchards, is North Sea oil, charges £1.64 per litre for petrol. Or, 82 times more than Venezuela.
I have no idea what it all means, but I'm not happy about it.
Who's with me?
