Best value place to buy coal and fire logs or alternatives?

shicky

Hello,

I'm based in Belfast, Northern Ireland and the temperature has dropped considerably it seems. As a result I want to start getting the fire on to help heat the house a bit more.

Normally I bought coal in home bargains but I haven't seen them about and their prices seemed to be creeping up. Is there anywhere better value?

Similarly, I got the fire logs for around 1gbp each in Lidl but they seem to be much more expensive now. I'm open to an alternative to these, I just find them handy for getting a fire going without needing to faff endlessly.

skycatcher

If you have space to store logs and/or coal you'd need better buying in bulk. I got a ton bag of seasoned hardwood for £60 and get 10x20kg bogs of smokeless coal for £73. 

shicky

skycatcher said:

If you have space to store logs and/or coal you'd need better buying in bulk. I got a ton bag of seasoned hardwood for £60 and get 10x20kg bogs of smokeless coal for £73. 

May I ask where you buy in bulk from?

WickedLady4

Look online to see if you have a local Coal Merchant who will deliver.
We get smokeless fuel in 25Kg bags plus seasoned hardwood delivered and lifted on to our front garden. We then have to take the logs round the back using a wheelbarrow.

shicky

In regards to my firelogs comments I meant something like these https://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfectonish-Friendly-Smokeless-Flamefast-Chimineas/dp/B0BM4NZFPD/ref=asc_df_B0BM4NZFPD?mcid=be05cce424cc375d955593c963740c80&tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=696352102746&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2629654180974425860&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045208&hvtargid=pla-1994974216945&psc=1&hvocijid=2629654180974425860-B0BM4NZFPD-&hvexpln=0&gad_source=1

shicky

WickedLady4 said:

Look online to see if you have a local Coal Merchant who will deliver.
We get smokeless fuel in 25Kg bags plus seasoned hardwood delivered and lifted on to our front garden. We then have to take the logs round the back using a wheelbarrow.

Thank you, I'll do some googling for a coal merchant 

QrizB

shicky said:

In regards to my firelogs comments I meant something like these 

Even at £1 each, they're a very expensive way to buy fuel.

If you have a stove or fireplace that can burn actual wood, you should find it much cheaper than those manufactured logs.

(I know nothing about the solid fuel market in Northern Ireland, so can't offer any specific recommendations. Sorry.)

skycatcher

shicky said:

skycatcher said:

If you have space to store logs and/or coal you'd need better buying in bulk. I got a ton bag of seasoned hardwood for £60 and get 10x20kg bogs of smokeless coal for £73. 

May I ask where you buy in bulk from?

Firewood supplies Dromore and Harper fuels Kinallen

MarzipanCrumble

Not in NI but Wales.  I have bought seasoned hardwood logs for my Morso wood burning stove from local wood management businesses.  They usually sell by the cu.m - I buy 3 cu.m at a time cut to medium (12" or less) length.  Logs are a by product of their business.

Longwalker

I buy 60kg of smokeless for £20 from my local farm store which will last about three weeks as I use logs - free from the January Storm ( still another 4 trees to cut ) 

Logs should be pretty cheap everywhere this year, everyone we know who sells is having trouble shifting them as every man who had a chainsaw was out getting their fill on the clean up 

But a coal merchant will be around £20 for 50kg delivered