Excel coal

pineapple

I get Excel because it seems to burn longer and hotter in my solid fuel stove. It tends to be a bit more pricey but for me, it's worth it.
Recently I collected a couple of top up bags from my usual coal merchant. It not keeping in as well as usual and is producing more ash. I compared it to the stuff in the coal bunker and the cobs are a different shape!
Either the coal merchant has made a mistake or is taking the p* or the manufacturers have changed it.
So my question is do the different brands have a distinctive shape or does it vary?

PDB77

I have had a lot of experience with coal and smokeless coal. We use it as our main source of heating. From experience I can say that coal and smokeless coal briquettes come in many shapes and sizes but the size and shape specific to that brand should be consistent throughout the country.
Therefore excell is the same size and shape wherever or whenever you buy it. If it is not the same then it is not the brand you have paid for.
May I ask how much you pay per 25kg

782sirbrian

As I understand Excel is a square shaped ovoid with rounded corners. It comes as a part of the mixed ovoids I buy. It slumbers down and lasts ages. I wonder if the merchant has passed off another fuel as Excel. The mixed ovoids I pay £7.40 for 25kg
Brian

A._Badger

PDB75 is right - you have been sold something else.

Incidentally, if I could get fuel for al little as £7.40 I'd be in heaven! The best I can get (in Kent) is £10 for 25kg!