[johnmac]

Hi all. I'm looking to find out what price everyone is paying for coal (assuming you use it!)

I currently buy 10 x 25kg bags every three or four weeks at £6.30 per bag (doubles) which is discounted from £7.20 a bag because I'm buying in bulk.

I'm trying to source a supplier who I can pick up a one tonne pallet (40x25kg) from to save even more money.... But so far the best price i can find is ferguson coal one pallet at £295 (£7.40 per bag) which is £1.10  per bag more than I'm paying just now!

Thanks for any info! :-)

[sheardale]

we buy it in  a lorry load.  last time it was 2 and a half ton.  That was £300.  Time before it was nearly 2 ton.

[johnmac]

Hi there. Thanks for the info. Any idea off the top of your head who your supplier is or where he is based?

Thanks

[sheardale]

I believe it was an opencast.  we hired a lorry and driver to go for it.

[ballingall]

Your best bet is to go to the opencast. We used to take a trailer and get a ton at a time (years and years ago now). Trouble now I suppose is finding the opencast! I think there is one on the A977- after Crook of Devon but you get towards Kincardine.....

Beth

[northfifeduckling]

We asked last year and they had closed the open cast mine in Fife(near Kirkcaldy). the new one might not be open to the public for years.
We pay £ 12 a bag from Henderson in Freuchie, it's 50 kg a bag. He's the cheapest around here. 

[darkbrowneggs]

Hi -  Here are a couple of links, I think pricing depends on where you are as carriage is included.  But its worth taking a look at.

http://www.coaldelivery.co.uk/index.html

http://www.coals2u.co.uk/

all the best
Sue

[ming]

  We pay £15 for smokeless eggs but they last forever and burn very hot.

[doganjo]

There's an opencast mine up near Kelty but I don't know if they sell to the General Public.

[faith0504]

we pay £16.00 for smokeless eggs 50kg sacks

[Sandy]

We paid £7.20 pre vat increase for 25kg and my husband (thats a new term for me to get used to) was jealouse about an Uncle who lives in Cleethorps, he just walks the beach at low tide picking it up, my brother used to do that too years ago but from near a train line, we use more wood but I suppose there are so many different types of coal, I know the stuff they use at power stations would burn a hole in your fire place hearth!!!!!!

[ming]

For years and years my dad walked the beach at Dysart picking sea coal for me. The council got fedup changing the grates, they used to ask if I was smelting steel  It was hot coal!! I miss it. And him.

[Fergie]

I've just paid £140 for half a ton of smokeless eggs, delivered today, but the same price as last winter.