Dearer Timber £50 Copper £25-£30
Imported heating Electrical
units £10 equipment £20
Sanitary ware £5 Plaster board £5
Ironmongery £5-£10 Sundries £25-£30
Bricks £25 Recent pay rise £10 These figures are interesting, they reveal that despite all the talk of wages being responsible for increases in costs in fact other thinrs are more important. Thus the recent (and last) cost of living bonus to builders adds only the same to cost of a building as the increase - caused by devaluation — in the cost of heating units, Many other factors listed above are also principally due to Government policy, e.g, dearer timber. The Tenants and building workers shculd unite for a change in Government policy so that increased wages and cheaper housing are possible.