Recently, the decoration circle has completely exploded, and the building materials market has staged a magical bipolar market, leaving countless families who are preparing to decorate and renovate their old houses confused.
On one side, building materials bosses gathered together to issue price increase notices, urging owners to pay deposits overnight to lock in prices; on the other side, store special offer banners were hung all over the place, with ceramic tiles and building materials being sold at low prices in unlimited quantities.
Many owners panicked and followed the trend, blindly placing orders and changing decoration budgets overnight, spending thousands and thousands of dollars more in vain.
In fact, if you peel away the chaos and look at the essence, this is not a comprehensive price increase of building materials, but a normal category price differentiation in the industry. It is also a marketing routine used by merchants to manipulate people’s hearts and specifically harvest decoration novices who do not know how to do it.
Industry experts bluntly said that there are only two types of hard-demand materials that are really under pressure to increase prices.
The first category is chemical building materials, including waterproofing, whole-house pipes, and various wall latex paints. The core raw materials are bound to the petrochemical industry chain. The raw materials have been slightly increased, and there is indeed room for floating costs.
The other category is metal auxiliary materials, such as copper wires and wires, broken bridge aluminum doors and windows, and whole-house hardware accessories necessary for home decoration. Relying on copper and aluminum industrial metal raw materials, the market fluctuates slightly, and the price naturally adjusts accordingly.
But there is no price increase at all for commonly used cement, yellow sand, red bricks, ordinary ceramic tiles, and affordable bathroom ware.
The demand for new housing infrastructure has slowed down, and building materials factories have overcapacity and inventory backlogs. Manufacturers just want to withdraw funds quickly and cut prices across the board to increase volume, leaving far more room for negotiation than in previous years.
The most important thing is that many whole-house customization, sofa and mattress, and soft furnishing stores have no real pressure to increase prices at all. They just follow the trend and use the market to create anxiety, use false price increase letters to force orders, and take advantage of people’s fear of spending more to harvest customers.
I sincerely recommend that all decoration owners plan rationally, do not blindly stock up on goods, and do not impulsively pay the full price.
If you just need hard furnishing materials, sign a contract with black and white letters to lock in the price. For bulk basic building materials, shop around with three companies to purchase according to your needs. For soft furnishings, see more and wait for more. You only need to pay a small refundable deposit.
Keep your wallet and don’t follow the trend. Decorating rationally is the last word to save money!
When facing the complex building materials market, owners must keep a clear mind and not be fooled by the marketing methods of merchants.
For rigidly needed hard decoration materials that are subject to price increases, it is necessary to make budgets and plans in advance, and sign clear contracts with merchants to ensure price stability.
For bulk basic building materials whose prices have dropped, you can compare the prices and quality of different merchants and choose products with high cost performance.
As for soft furnishings, don’t rush to place an order, observe the market dynamics and wait for the right time before making a move.
Only in this way can unnecessary expenses be avoided during the decoration process and the goals of rational decoration and saving money can be achieved.
