How prices are sourced.
Official reference prices.
The price board is the Ministry of Housing’s monthly building-material price bulletin. Tubali adds nothing to its numbers.
Read from the published bulletin.
Each price is taken from the table it was printed in, and each figure is checked against a second reading of the same PDF.
Conditions stay with the number.
Unit, month, taxes, transport and the sentence printed under the table stay beside the price. A price that says nothing about transport is shown as not stated.
One click to the source.
Every price links to the exact page of the Ministry’s PDF, so anyone can check it.
Other sources.
Beside the bulletin, the pages show prices other publishers put on their public pages, read on the date stated.
Kept apart.
Each row stays with its publisher. Nothing is averaged across sources or mixed into the Ministry’s numbers.
Dated by the publisher.
The date shown is the publisher’s own date for that price. Its unit, VAT status and conditions stay beside it.
Linked to the source.
Every row links back to the publisher’s page, so anyone can check it or see a newer price.
How the average works.
A useful price reference shows what was listed, where, and on which day. The average is only ever the plain mean of the listings on the page.
Same material, same specification.
Size, finish, grade and unit define a material. 60 × 60 matt is never averaged with 60 × 120 glossy.
Every source stays visible.
Each price keeps its retailer, product page link, listed price, unit and the date it was checked. Only the latest check per retailer counts.
The average is plain arithmetic.
The listed prices, converted to the base unit from each listing’s own pack, added up and divided by their count. Fewer than three retailers, and the page shows the sources without an average.
How a work item’s price is built.
Materials per unit of work.
Each item lists the materials one unit of work uses, with wastage. Each material’s price is the plain average of at least three retailers; with fewer, a marked estimate is used and the item says so.
Labour as a range.
Labour is a market range for Greater Cairo, with the source it rests on. A range is called an estimate until it is confirmed.
Released, then frozen.
A release freezes every number on these pages. Listings that change afterwards are recomputed at the next release, never silently.
A reference, not a quote.
The average describes the listings on this page on the day they were checked. Your supplier’s quote for your quantity is the price you pay.