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Price of a bag of coal?

I pay £8.50 for a bag in my area, however, there seems to be somewhat of a monopoly in this area. I wonder if there is a great deal of variation in other parts of the country?
I would be grateful to learn the price in your area


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  • £9.20 per 50KG bag in my area is the cheapest. Up 20p since the start of the autumn.
  • Phil3822
    Phil3822 Posts: 604 Forumite
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    £8.00 per bag delivered. Lincolnshire.
  • Poppycat
    Poppycat Posts: 19,899 Forumite
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    Interesting to see the price of it. I moving to a house that has a none smoking area or whatever its called. Is teh smoke free coal more by chance?
  • Hornet
    Hornet Posts: 36 Forumite
    Focus DIY have 3 for 2 on coal at the moment on 10Kg bags

    normal is 2.99 each
    smokeless 4.49 each
    if i had known then what i know now
  • We haven't bought any since last winter (free fire wood :D ) but we used to pay £15 for 3 25kg bags of standard house coal (collected).
    New year, no debt! Debt free date - 02/01/07 :j :j :j :D
  • paul_h
    paul_h Posts: 1,074 Forumite
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    Last load of house coal we had delivered earlier this year was £110 per tonne, works out at £5.50 per 50Kg bag.

    Our coal man comes from Sheffield to deliver ours, local prices are £6-7 per bag.
  • Mine has gone up to £10 per 50KG sack of smokeless coke this week! :-(
  • Snow_Dog
    Snow_Dog Posts: 690 Forumite
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    £5 for grade and its good stuff, most places round here are charging £6+ and some of the stuff isnt worth trying to burn, nutty slag my arze.
  • Just ordered some coal this morning. £8.25 for 50kg (hundredweight) bag of small lump coal or £10 for medium lumps which is supposedly excellent quality and premium for I think £12 which is even bigger lumps.
  • Poppycat
    Poppycat Posts: 19,899 Forumite
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    I found burning wood was better well actually logs. Much cleaner and gives out far more heat than coal on our open fire. We now have a log burner in another chimney so we are using that as its not only clean, but far more efficient that a open fire.
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