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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: johnmac on January 10, 2011, 08:11:02 pm

Title: Price of coal
Post by: johnmac on January 10, 2011, 08:11:02 pm

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! :-)

Title: Re: Price of coal
Post by: sheardale on January 10, 2011, 08:20:30 pm

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.

Title: Re: Price of coal
Post by: johnmac on January 10, 2011, 08:35:16 pm

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

Thanks

Title: Re: Price of coal
Post by: sheardale on January 10, 2011, 09:26:31 pm

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

Title: Re: Price of coal
Post by: ballingall on January 10, 2011, 09:53:05 pm

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

Title: Re: Price of coal
Post by: northfifeduckling on January 10, 2011, 10:27:24 pm

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.  :&>

Title: Re: Price of coal
Post by: darkbrowneggs on January 10, 2011, 10:45:32 pm

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.coaldelivery.co.uk/index.html)

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

all the best
Sue

Title: Re: Price of coal
Post by: ming on January 10, 2011, 10:47:13 pm

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

Title: Re: Price of coal
Post by: doganjo on January 10, 2011, 10:54:30 pm

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

Title: Re: Price of coal
Post by: faith0504 on January 11, 2011, 04:00:35 pm

we pay £16.00 for smokeless eggs 50kg sacks

Title: Re: Price of coal
Post by: Sandy on January 12, 2011, 09:56:36 am

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!!!!!!

Title: Re: Price of coal
Post by: ming on January 12, 2011, 10:01:06 am

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  ;D It was hot coal!! I miss it. And him.

Title: Re: Price of coal
Post by: Fergie on January 13, 2011, 06:08:58 pm

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