Coal Delivery

BlackEdelweiss

Just wondering if it is standard practice for the coal man to put the coal into the bunker or do they generally just leave the bags and you put them in yourself.

We only moved into a house last summer that has an open fire so not loads of experience with this. The first few times the guy put the coal into the bunker but the last 2 times they have left it in the back yard. Once he just dropped it against the wall of the house under the kitchen window. I thought maybe he did not know we had a bunker so let it pass. This time I walked round the back with him and opened the bunker just to highlight that we had one. I thought this would have been enough so left him to it but no, he just left 3 x 40kg bags of coal beside the open bunker.

I am thinking of switching supplier but just wondering if this is what they do these days. It never used to be when we lived in the last house with an open fire.

Wearb

I find it strange that you didn't ask him, seeing as it hadn't been done recently.

Next time you order, ask that the person taking the order, to attach a note to it requesting it be put in the bunker.

It's bound to be an exceptionally busy time for them and they'll shorten delivery times as much as possible to cram more daily deliveries in.

BlackEdelweiss

I thought by walking round the back with him and saying I'll open the bunker for you would have been enough. I thought the last time he just did not know we had a bunker as he left it under the kitchen window.

It might shorten his delivery times but it has also shortened his customer list. I now have to go and put on some old clothes and go out and lift 3 x 40kg bags of coal off the ground into the bunker. I can do it, it is not beyond the limits of my strength but my back and knees are not what they used to be.

JustJoe7240

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118351005#Comment_118351005

Have done runs like this before for a family friend, would always dump it if asked but wouldn't go volunteering, I want to save my back as much as the next man

BlackEdelweiss

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118351400#Comment_118351400

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Sleeper12

When I was a kid it was delivered into a bunker but these were open ended sacks & they take away the sack. With today's sealed plastic bags I would have thought you would need to ask for them to be brought aroud the back to the bunker

BlackEdelweiss

Fair enough I can lift a 40kg bag but my wife couldn't and I suspect quite a lot of the population could not either, especially lifting it from the ground. I have never known coal to be left for the house owner to put in the bunker, the guys always carried it in on their shoulder after lifting it off the back of the raised open back lorry. They then tipped it into the bunker from their shoulders and took the bags away.

MakersMark

Off topic, but have you considered compressed sawdust logs?

Clean and easy to handle, and put out a lot of heat.