Smokless coal prices/suppliers.

Max3000

Howdy.

Anyone any tips for the best smokeless coal?

I live in Letterkenny town and am just on the town boundary so have to burn smokeless. I have found the quality of it varies enormously. I'm not happy with the quality of any of the coal sold in the town, both from that national fuels place on the pearse road and the drive through place on the port road. My local coal man delivers crappy stuff too. It's expensive (17-18 euros a bag) ,very dusty and leaves a lot of ash and cinders. There is a shop in oldtown selling smokeless too and the quality of it is abysmal, a total waste of money.

I have shopped around extensively and then the other day I stopped with a depot in Strabane and found top quality smokeless (the stuff that looks like big, fat nuggets (duck eggs as he described it)) and it was 7:50 stg for a 25 kilo bag. It burns longer, gets very very hot and burns away completely. Is there anywhere around the town that sells this kind of stuff?

Dirac98

Try Charles Kelly's

GoldenGreen

Nearly sure Tinneys Coal does them nuggets, think they are called brown nuggets.

NIMAN

Anyone know if smokeless coal is less likely to make a mess of the glass front on my stove?
As soon as I put coal on it blackens up.

banham

Has anybody come across a smokleess coal that gives out good heat? Comparable or better than smokey coal?

The ones I have tried are very poor heat wise ,compared to Colombian housecoal. However the only benefit is that they produce very little soot and stove glass has very little if any staining. You will definitely get a cleaner stove.

Max3000

banham wrote: »

Has anybody come across a smokleess coal that gives out good heat? Comparable or better than smokey coal?

The ones I have tried are very poor heat wise ,compared to Colombian housecoal. However the only benefit is that they produce very little soot and stove glass has very little if any staining. You will definitely get a cleaner stove.

Yes the smokeless from Tobins on the port road is very good but very dusty and expensive at 12:50 for a 25 kilo bag. Strabane is the best so far, very, very hot, burns for ages and leaves little ash. 7:50 (stg) for a 25 kilo bag.

banham

Max3000 wrote: »

Yes the smokeless from Tobins on the port road is very good but very dusty and expensive at 12:50 for a 25 kilo bag. Strabane is the best so far, very, very hot, burns for ages and leaves little ash. 7:50 (stg) for a 25 kilo bag.

Thanks for that! Where about in Strabane is the depot? Can you remember what the coal was called?

Max3000

banham wrote: »

Thanks for that! Where about in Strabane is the depot? Can you remember what the coal was called?

I don't remember what it was called but the depot (they also sell tyres) is on the railway road just up from the Farmers Home. I think it was the only smokeless they had.

hillviewfarm

Is there a big difference between smokeless and regular coal, heat wise. I do not live in a smokeless area, but have been told that the smokeless is so much cleaner.
cheers

danniemcq

hillviewfarm wrote: »

Is there a big difference between smokeless and regular coal, heat wise. I do not live in a smokeless area, but have been told that the smokeless is so much cleaner.
cheers

stick with the proper stuff.

Cheaper, burns better and doesn't have you cursing it when the HUGE fire you put on turns into nothing.

Also since we were forced to use smokeless we keep getting bits explode out of the fire so the guard has to stay up way longer holding in the heat more.

Complete waste.

That is of course my opinion

donedl1

Donegal Creameries do a cosy-glo smokeless coal for open fires and another for stoves. Looks like a flattened duck egg and burns for ages.

massey265

Any body notice that a certain named co-ops bags off coal that sold in a offer off 11 bags for the price off ten does be 3kg short off the 40kg stamped on the bag?
It's dear enough without this carry on.