Seems like a good deal on coal....

I was in Jonesborough today for some other bits and I ended up getting 10 x 20kg bags of supertherm for €100 in McGeoughs.

Same in woodies cost me €200 down south. I was delighted with that saving, it’s the coal I always buy, great heat from it.

update from easyglow

This surcharge will range between €40 and €60 per pallet, depending on your delivery location, and will take effect from tomorrow 1st November 2024.

Has anyone tried the Arigna Harvest Flame Biomass?

https://fuel.mcdonoghdirect.ie/collections/smokeless-coal/products/arigna-harvest-flame-biomass-fuel-20kg

Down as 30 l here

https://www.coopsuperstores.ie/products/harvest-flame-renewable-biomass-smokeless-30l-0051753? gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIq9zQ_5i5iQMVVJlQBh1XdyMrEAQYAiABEgL5CPD_BwE

Guy that delivered mine had broken english but he said something like can only bring certified stuff (cause Irish gov wants to clamp down on non duty paid coal) and they (couier) not going to check every pallet so might just stop doing the coal delivery.

He didn't seem to have full story either.

easyglow 95e for delivery just as coal prices had come down a bit there delivery has nearly doubled .

smokeless express prices for there Ireland websites are to the same

They did to be fair ,have enough coal in anyway for the winter but just when yad think be saving few pound with price coal going down the delivery brings it back up ,but I suppose then too its still cheaper then buyn locally anyway.

I ordered a tonne a few weeks ago and also ordered another tonne last week.

Ordered Tuesday and arrived Thursday morning and still ovoids are €430 delivered.

It was part of the Good Friday agreement, so is legal once it's for personal use and attracts 5% vat for 1 tonne or less.

That was my understanding too. I've always paid the 5% to the coal merchant when buying in the North and arranged my own collection. I assumed the 5% was just NI VAT on solid fuel as the merchant would be marking it as a domestic walk-in sale as opposed to an export.

I can somewhat understand the hauliers pulling back as I imagine at this stage, there are truck loads of coal crossing the border to their central depot every night. Business to business pallets is the bread and butter for hauliers… every aspect of their operation is designed around this. A one-off pallet of coal up the side of a mountain to a guy who probably spent 2 weeks haggling the price over the phone ... that's only a headache and likely a loss. Even from a billing perspective, it's much much simpler for the haulier to send an invoice to coal warehouse or whoever at the end of the month for the 2,000 pallets they've delivered versus trying to contact 2,000 folk scattered throughout the South for payment.

just to go back to this again, first new bag all was good, but after opening another bag and it's like the first lot I had.

Has anyone else ordered the smokeless ovoids recently from coalwarehouse? If so, any chance you can pop up a picture what's left the next day in your fire. One other thing I've noticed when cleaning out the fire is there's a smell of rotten eggs, presumably sulphur but I've not noticed it before

I ordered a ton of Eco Stove red bag - in my opinion the best stove fuel, from Smokeless Coal Express.

https://www.smokelesscoalexpress.com/

CJ was very helpful, ordered Monday - arrived Wednesday & well wrapped.

The premium seems to vary a lot. It was only 30 euro per ton on Smokeless Coal Express

I haven't but coal warehouse doing half ton of full ovoids for €255 delivered.

The click coal starfuel has calco mixed in with the ovoids

TThe ovoids from click coal are €325 delivered

Depending on your location McGuires might be cheaper again for ovoids.

From there FB page

https://m.facebook.com/WrayGroup/