Sourcing affordable building materials for a single room refresh or a full construction project often comes down to finding one merchant with genuine depth across categories. Travisperkins stocks timber, insulation, plaster, roofing, bricks, and building chemicals within a single catalogue, which means a small renovation and a larger build can pull from the same shelves rather than juggling several suppliers. The sections below set out what sits in each category and how each tends to apply on site.
Timber & Sheet Materials: Sawn, Treated, and Plywood Options
Travisperkins lists sawn timber, treated timber, and CLS studwork timber alongside scaffold boards, roofing batten, and site pegs. Sheet material options include plywood, OSB, flooring grade chipboard, melamine board, and MDF, hardboard, and pinboard. Planed timber is also available in softwood and hardwood, along with planed tongue and grooved flooring for interior work. This range covers structural framing as well as finishing timber such as skirting boards and window boards.
For projects that mix structural and decorative needs, having sawn and planed timber under one range simplifies sourcing affordable building materials for several stages of a job at once. Treated timber suits outdoor applications, while CLS studwork is typically used for internal partition framing. Decking is handled separately too, with timber decking, composite decking, decking screws, and decking balustrades listed among the options.
Insulation Solutions Across Cavity, Internal Wall, and Loft Applications
The insulation range includes insulation board, cavity and internal wall insulation, and loft insulation, plus insulation accessories and sound insulation. Separating these categories allows a project to target a specific area of a building, whether that is a roof space, a stud wall, or a cavity between external and internal walls. Sound insulation is listed as its own category, distinct from the thermal products.
Loft insulation and cavity insulation address different parts of a building envelope, so stocking both together matters when comparing options for an upgrade. Insulation accessories round out the category, covering the fixings and tapes that go alongside the main boards and rolls. Travisperkins keeps these groupings separate so a property-wide upgrade and a single-room fix both find what they need.
Plaster & Plasterboards: Standard and Specialist Variants
Plaster and plasterboard options include thermal insulated plasterboard, standard plasterboard, and specialist plasterboard, along with plaster coving. Standard plasterboard covers general wall and ceiling work, while thermal insulated plasterboard combines a board with an insulating layer. Specialist plasterboard is listed separately, covering particular performance needs beyond the standard boards.
Plastering and finishing work also connects to a wider set of cement-based products, including cement, ready mixed concrete and mortar, and cement plasterciser and dyes, with screeding and floor levelling compound used to prepare a surface before boards or finishes go on. Grouping these together means a plastering job and the surface preparation beneath it can be sourced from the same range rather than from separate merchants. That crossover is one of the practical reasons buyers compare affordable building materials across categories instead of shopping product by product.
Roofing Materials: Tiles, Slates, and Flat Roofing Systems
Roofing covers roof tiles and slates, sheet roofing, flat roofing, pitched roofing, and UPVC fascia and soffits. Having both pitched and flat roofing systems listed separately reflects the fact that different roof structures call for different coverings. Guttering is a related category, with soil pipe and fittings, PVC guttering, and guttering accessories listed alongside the roofing range.
Lintels are grouped near roofing too, including concrete lintels, steel lintels, padstones, and cast stone dressings. These structural components typically sit above openings such as doors and windows, supporting the roof and wall loads above them. Stocking lintels and roofing materials together reflects how closely these jobs tend to overlap on site.
Bricks & Blocks: Facing, Engineering, and Special Shaped Options
The bricks and blocks range includes facing bricks, engineering bricks, special shaped bricks, and blocks, plus damp proof course and membranes. Facing bricks are typically chosen for visible exterior walls, while engineering bricks serve load-bearing or below-ground applications. Special shaped bricks cover non-standard forms needed for particular architectural details.
Damp proof course and damp proof membrane products are listed as their own category too, separate from the general bricks and blocks line. This separation makes sense given that DPC and DPM materials address moisture control rather than structural build-up. Render is also listed as a standalone category for finishing external walls, and together these groupings show how many distinct material types a single project can draw on when a merchant covers the full range of affordable building materials and building supplies.
- Timber and sheet materials cover structural framing, decorative finishing, and decking in a single range.
- Insulation products separate cavity, internal wall, loft, and sound applications so each part of a building can be addressed on its own terms.
- Plaster and plasterboard options range from standard boards to thermal insulated and specialist variants.
- Roofing materials include tiles, slates, sheet roofing, and flat roofing systems for different roof structures.
- Bricks and blocks span facing, engineering, and special shaped options alongside damp proof course and membrane products.
- Fixings, adhesives, and building chemicals round out a project with joist hangers, wall ties, jointing compounds, and waterproofing products.
Fixings, Adhesives, and Building Chemicals for Complete Project Coverage
Beyond the core structural materials, the building chemicals range includes jointing compounds, waterproofing, and cleaning chemicals, alongside the cement plasterciser, dyes, and screeding compound already noted in the plastering section above. Builders metalwork is a related category, covering joist hangers, builders restraint straps, wall and frame ties, wall starter kits, and angles and brackets. These smaller components are often what holds a larger structural job together.
Fixings and adhesives form a distinct category within the wider range, separate from the building chemicals listed above. Having both grouped within reach of the heavier materials means a renovation project does not need a second supplier for the connecting pieces. This combination of structural materials and smaller fixings is part of what makes sourcing affordable building materials from Travisperkins practical for both trade and home projects.
In addition to these categories, Travisperkins operates branch delivery and click and collect, with order tracking available through its site. An account option is also listed for trade pricing, which is relevant for anyone sourcing materials regularly rather than for a single one-off job.
Looking Ahead for Material Sourcing
Keeping timber, insulation, plaster, roofing, bricks, and building chemicals under one roof remains a practical way to simplify a project’s supply chain.