It’s really surprising to hear we are now in place of nearly 40e for 40kg for Colombian coal vs ~1ton of turf or logs at 75/80e locally… this winter is turf and logs.
The price of coal is only going up sadly
Any recommendations for coal dealer Derry/Strabane direction? Would be looking for a tonne so would be heading across with the trailer.
A ton is going to cost big money, dandy’s have a ton for £669
https://www.thedandys.ie/product/premium-polish-coal-1-tonne-pallet/
Himself was talking to a place in Derry that charge £9.50 for a 20kg bag so even with the sterling it'll be a good enough deal
Yeah I reckon there'll be a lot of vans n trailers heading north at the weekends. Got a 40kg bag of ovoids for e33 for the mother last week from local farm shop. It's probably as low as it gets around here.
Have you a name of this place
I doubt it's only £9.50 per bag
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Coyle's fuels Derry
Well unless the fella was lying to him, that's what he was told.
Just rang them myself, nuggets and eggs £ 9.50, triple mix of nuggets eggs and calco £10.80 so there ye go!
Ton of easy glow ovoid @735 at the moment. Limited stock. The emailed me to say it was going up, no idea how much.
bought a few bags of this stove fuel, it’s a type of compressed ovoid. Disappointed with the heat output
I've bought a few tonnes of that this past 2 years. I'd nearly bet it's the same ovoid Coal Warehouse are selling and personally I've no complaints... burns well, nice steady heat and next to no ash. I think people who are used to burning coal will be disappointed with ovoids initially as you don't get that 30 minutes of intense heat you get from coal when it blazes but you do get a few hours of good steady heat instead.
Hayes do a better ovoid than this again, Glovoids I think they call them. They're smaller, silvery in colour and give higher heat.. but more expensive
That is my experience too. No great instant heat, but it burns for a long time. Last Saturday I lit the stove around 1pm. At 2 I put in 2/3 of a bucket and then nothing else. At 9pm I had to take off my jumper and open a window, it was just too hot. And the house isn't well insulated either. An old house, a north facing room with 12ft ceilings...
that is the way of the ovoid - nothing like coal but when you get it going f me dead it is serious heat
I couldn't go back to coal or worse, those mixed bags of coal and what looks like concrete painted black! As it happens too, Colombian coal is becoming more expensive than ovoids now
That intense blast of heat coal gives when first lit is only stressing the cold stove and boiler, an hour later you're wondering where the heats gone and the next morning you're shovelling rocks from the grate
There are some very well manufactured ovoids on the market now... clean to handle, easy lit, good steady heat and the little bit of floury ash left in the grate in the morning, you'd literally blow it away. Someone really cracked the recipe on them.. long may they last!
I should add too, they're much safer to burn as they don't blaze or give high flame. We've left the damper open more than once by accident and while the firebox was glowing like a furnace, there was no flames screaming up the chimney
I see Coalwarehouse have a sale in the form of half price delivery,obviously that price didn't drop but they are subsidising, good to see some downward movement, hopefully it will continue.
Currently burning the eco coal from coal direct, the heat output from it is unbelievable. Best I ever had.
That will be good when it gets cold, it’s still very mild even at night
Is that the ovoid or the mixed bag of coal, ovoids and pet coke? Green bags or orange?
The green bags, called Golden Glow, ecoglow. It really is amazing stuff, I don't have to put much of it into the stove on a daily basis, but the heat in the room last for hours and hours.
https://coaldirectireland.com/shop/eco-glow/
Are the rads hot too?
Using the same stuff from Coal direct . The green bags . I stick the oil on for 20 minutes when I’m getting the fire going . Then a shuttle of coal and once the fire is going the oil is knocked off. After about 3-4 hours I’d throw a log or two of hard wood on and that would heat a 4 bed house from 3pm till about 12. And it’s still warm the next day.
Cant fault the green bags from Coal direct and the tip the chimney cleaner gave me about the oil is super as it makes sense e regarding the back boiler in the stove .
20 small ovoids from easy glow and 2 blocks of oak is keeping my stove roasting, it’s impossible to judge any coal properly when it’s so mild
I have no back boiler.
Amazing results from it
some good news for next year - coal commodity prices have been dropping in the last 3-4 weeks and are about $325/ton. Still more than twice last November's price.
The dollar is also starting to weaken a little and it is expected to weaken further (or lose some of the huge strength it had is probably a better way of putting it)
Coal is bought on forward contracts, so I would expect that from next Feb / March you will see a decent drop in prices, but still up on last year.
Has any body ordered from https://www.smokelessdirect.ie same ovoids as coal direct but a little cheaper.Might order this weekend a bargain is a bargain
I got a ton of the eco stove and there's great heat from it The eco glow I see is cheaper but ment to be just as good in a stove although it's ment for open fires
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