The snow blocked roads and kept many indoors last month. For the construction industry, it meant that it was too cold to lay bricks ANDREW MATTHEWS/PABritain’s third-biggest housebuilder said that the Beast from the East knocked out nearly a month of building work in February and March after it became too cold to lay bricks, causing a slowdown in sales. Taylor Wimpey said that its sales rate in the first four months of the year had dropped to 0.85 homes per sales outlet per week, down from 0.93 a year earlier. This sent the shares down 2¾p, or 1.5 per cent, to 190p. Pete Redfern, chief executive of the FTSE 100 company, said: “In my 18 years in the business, this is the only time we have ever commented on the weather.

Source: The Times April 26, 2018 23:04 UTC