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FRESH AIR PLATE W/ CLAMP SPRING

Plate in Plates & Guards

$3.18$3.18 per ea

Median $3.18

Based on 14 purchases from 2 vendors, trailing 12 months.

How much does fresh air plate w/ clamp spring cost?

Contractors are currently paying $3.18 to $3.18 per ea, with a median of $3.18. That range is the middle half of actual invoiced prices over the last 12 months — the cheapest and most expensive outliers are excluded, because one mis-keyed line item shouldn't define what you think a fair price is.

If you're paying above $3.18 per ea, you're in the top quarter of what other contractors pay for the same item — worth a conversation with your supplier.

What drives the price

  • Size and material. The single biggest factor, and why we price at this level of detail rather than lumping every plate together.
  • Supplier. The same item routinely differs by 15–20% between suppliers in one market. This range spans 2 of them.
  • Order volume. Counter pickups price differently from a scheduled bulk delivery.
  • When you bought. Prices drift. This is a trailing 12-month window, so it reflects the current market rather than a historical average.

Related plate prices

ProductTypical rangeMedianPurchases
SELF NAILING PLATE 3-1/2 IN 6 IN; 16 GAUGE$0.50 $0.82 / ea$0.5010

How we know this

These figures come from real invoices processed through CostCrunch, not list prices or survey data. We normalise each line to a price per unit, exclude the top and bottom 1% as outliers, and a figure is only published once there are at least 10 purchases of that item in the last 12 months. Where a figure rests on a single supplier or a single company we say so, because that is one buyer's experience rather than a market rate — below that, an average says more about one buyer than about the market.

Check your own invoices against these prices — CostCrunch reads every line item and flags anything above market.