Seems like a good deal on coal....

Mine is the Charnwood Country 16b Multi-fuel model, I've looked through the manual, and sure enough it does say that Petroleum Coke is not suitable for this appliance, and its use will invalidate the guarantee. And, ( given my luck ) the Hayes hi-Heat smokeless is exactly that???

So worse case scenario, what will happen? The base and front grille will get burnt out as standard I guess? So only thing for it now (as I have a ton of them !!! ) would be to dilute them with "Normal" coal, and hope for the best. Actually, I get about 2.5 days out of one coal scuttle fill, about 10 Kg. supplemented with wood ( ash at the moment ) And I tried them out for the first time today, fed them into an established fire. The seemed fine, only put in a handful, plenty of heat, and they lit up quick.

Thanks for your input.

Pretty much the same here, over the last 8 years, burned smokey and smokefree coals, ( mainly smoke free in recent years ) and plenty of wood. So far, and after last winter, there's a crack in the front grill bars, but its still working away fine. So I'll replace those ( and any other bars ) and be a bit more carefull when ordering coal the next time.

I got a pallet of ovoids from easyglo, but would never use them again. It's takes a bit to decipher the problem at first as the heat output is OK.

The cons are there is nearly a full pan of Ash, compared to a little Ash from supertherm. They are 1.5 times bigger than supertherm so takes more to fill the stove. And finally, the heat is nowhere near supertherm.

I was going to order 2 pallets, I'm glad I didn't. I got it by the pallet for convenience more so than price, but I'll pay more and buy locally in future. Just not worth knowing what you might get. People on here saying easyglo are great, but supertherm and you'll see the difference.

To be fair, there was also lot of people on here complaining about EasyGlo over the past year or so and complaining about the very issue with ash that you have outlined.

I got EG coal, Smokeless Stove 30g ovoid. I use it on open fire though with dry hardwood. I find it to be amazing to be honest. Literally a few pieces with a couple of logs and it's incredible.

It's not really fair at all. I did see that problem, but I saw it was rectified. Could be they kept a lot of the bad stuff and offload it to new customers. Once bitten.

Not all the people who complained about EG said it was rectified. There was number including myself who said they'd look elsewhere. One thing I did learn from the thread over the past couple of months was there was so many conflicting reviews about nearly all the suppliers that It really became impossible to 100% sure about any of them. Like youself I was bitten by EG and won't be again, I'll try first before comitting to a one tonne order even if it means doing a bit of traveling to find out.

What was your experience with the EG small ovoids? Did you burn them mixed with the larger replacement ovoids?

For what it’s worth i also had the small ovoids replaced and have started to use them again if only to use them up. They’re still not great but mixed with some larger ovoids and some timber not too bad (will not be using them when the weather gets cold as the large ones produce better heat)

Have to agree with other comments here and positively warn people away from Easyglow - having previously used small smokeless ovoids in my Stanley enclosed stove, I ordered a half ton of the large smokeless ovoids in October 21 and found them to burn very quickly with moderate heat and a lot of ash. I have complained but have only received a cursory acknowledgement "that it was being looked into" and nothing since despite numerous prompts. I've since bought a tonne of Tigerlady anthracite from TheDandys and found it to be easy to light, good value, long-burning with moderate ash. Yet another ex-Easyglow customer...

Bought a ton of this crap coal last year, a ridiculous amount of ash every morning, clear out the stove and put the ash in a metal container and later into a plastic bag and then in the bin.

Done this until it was all gone, fast forward a few months and my bill for the bin collection for the next year drops in the letter box, due to the weight increase in by my bins i was been bumped up to the next level , a full 100 quid more expensive, i logged into the website and sure enough when i checked the weight of each bin lift the time i was burning this crap and disposing of the mountain of ash corresponded to a increase in bin weight each week, so feck all saving and burning a ton of crap coal, have since only bought stafford clarke coal and all is good.

Try K&L.

Who are people using atm moment to get a pallet delivered to the Clare/Limerick direction and prices please?

I used joe McGovern for delivery to Munster. It's straight forward to book them and it was €80 for a ton of coal.

I bought a ton of large ovoids from easy glow for €418 inc delivery. I am using these large ovoids since last year and they are equal to CW ovoids.

CW would costs me €340 + €80 delivery = €420.

Yeah it's still a good saving. Though it has gone up €60 a ton since last year. Same everywhere though, I suppose.