Briquettes €3.60

PeterDuggan

B&Q have BnM briquettes €18 for 5 (i.e. €3.60 each) with an over-60's card (Wed only), €20 for 5 otherwise. Not bad but has anyone seen cheaper elsewhere?

casio4

woodies doing 6 briquettes for €25 works out at €4.10 a bale I know it's not cheaper than you but that's the best around my way at the minute, no B&Q near me

vicwatson

Aldi are selling them at €3.99 and usually have them throughout the winter.

run_Forrest_run

PeterDuggan wrote: »

B&Q have BnM briquettes €18 for 5 (i.e. €3.60 each) with an over-60's card, €20 for 5 otherwise. Not bad but has anyone seen cheaper elsewhere?

ageist pricks :mad:

vicwatson

run_Forrest_run wrote: »

ageist pricks :mad:

Agreed, the over 60's are the ones with the money in this country.

PeterDuggan

Dublin Fuel Centre, Malahide Road have BnM briquettes for €3.75 each.

MenloPete

Over 60s does not apply to already discounted products.

fleet_admiral

PeterDuggan wrote: »

Dublin Fuel Centre, Malahide Road have BnM briquettes for €3.75 each.

Where on the Malahide Road is that please?

Davy

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Where on the Malahide Road is that please?

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Malahide Road Industrial Park,

Malahide,

Dublin 17

(behind Marble & Granite Supplies and opposite O'Mahoney Meats)

PeterDuggan

PeterDuggan wrote: »

B&Q have BnM briquettes €18 for 5.

Discovered in store (contrary to their advice by phone) that B&Q won't allow the 60+ discount on briquettes. So in fact their best price is €20 for 5 bales (not €18).

Mods can you please modify title and first post accordingly; apparently I can't.

_Tombstone_

vicwatson wrote: »

Aldi are selling them at €3.99 and usually have them throughout the winter.

Are they short two brickets? It's last year since I bought any so I forget the numbers but some bales have 24(?) and others have 22(?).

Both green banded BNMona.

Not sure what trickery was happening in different providers.

vicwatson

^^^^^^

Never heard of that before

Grab All Association

Last April Bord na Móna temporarily laid off some staff and reduced hours for the rest at its peat production plant in Littleton Thurles Co Tipperary for the summer months citing the carbon tax, cheap timber and a mild winter.

In August they wanted the workers to reapply for their old jobs on reduced pay and benefits just days after posting an annual profit of €52 million.

It's the reason why I cancelled my AES (BnM owned company) bin service and stopped buying BnM peat briquettes.

vicwatson

Isnt this still state owned? Never heard that before

Access

The shorter bales story is true. The bales have reduced in size since about winter 2013 onwards.

A good mate of mine is a purchasing manager for a large builders providers and was telling me that they make very little in a bale also. They do get a better cost price though if they buy multiple pallets from BnM... but with the weather being so mild, that's not happening at the moment.

Access

vicwatson wrote: »

Isnt this still state owned? Never heard that before

Nah, AES is its only company.

Livefornow

Grange Builders Providers in Baldoyle Industrial Estate have BNM Briquettes for €3.75 collected

joeysoap

_Tombstone_ wrote: »

Are they short two brickets? It's last year since I bought any so I forget the numbers but some bales have 24(?) and others have 22(?).

Both green banded BNMona.

Not sure what trickery was happening in different providers.

Afaik BNM sell their briquettes in Northern Ireland with a green band. I usually start the fire with BNM but use the lignite briquettes after that (with a log or two)

Mycroft H

joeysoap wrote: »

Afaik BNM sell their briquettes in Northern Ireland with a green band. I usually start the fire with BNM but use the lignite briquettes after that (with a log or two)

Is it not a yellow band up there?

PeterDuggan

Just spoke to BnM themselves who confirm...
1) The number of briquettes per bale can vary but bales are sold by weight and should always be 12.5Kg
2) Green banded bales are sold in the republic and are subject to carbon tax. Yellow banded bales should only be sold in N.I.
3) BnM deliver in Dublin for €4.15/bale, minimum order 25 bales.

joeysoap

I bought briquettes in Dundalk yesterday. 5 for €20. Yellow band, hence I thought green was in the north. Fwiw they are dearer in the north than Dundalk. Same outlet selling box of fire logs €14.90 for 10, and two bags of smokeless nuggets for €15. (20kg per bag)

vicwatson

Access wrote: »

Nah, AES is its only company.

Has BNM been privatised then?

Grab All Association

vicwatson wrote: »

Has BNM been privatised then?

No it's still state owned (for now)

delahuntv

vicwatson wrote: »

Has BNM been privatised then?

BNM owns AES which is a private company.

Whilst BNM is semi state, it can own subsiduaries and do what it likes with the subsiduaries. So if they wanted to sell AES tomorrow, they could, but if they wanted to sell the peat harvesting part, they couldn't without gov approval.