Briquettes, where do you buy yours?

TequilaMockingBird

Anyone been checking out the prices this year?

Slidey

I think I saw them in Ballymote some day recently for 3.70 or something like that.

Happened to be in Homebase today and they wanted 4.99 for them! Typical of them and their over charging ways

genie

I got a couple of bales at Michael Owens' at Carraroe yesterday and they were €4.40. Sligo Fuels down the quays had bales for €3.99 but they were much smaller bales than usual, plus, they were wrapped in plastic! :rolleyes:

Son Of A Vidic

Buy them in NCF, I think they're €3.50 per bale. I get all my solid fuel in NCF because nobody beats them on price.

TequilaMockingBird

Great, thanks all.

Medicman, did you get sorted for turf? I got a load delivered yesterday, nice stuff for €3 a bag. PM me (anyone) if you want the guys number.

TequilaMockingBird

genie wrote: »

I got a couple of bales at Michael Owens' at Carraroe yesterday and they were €4.40. Sligo Fuels down the quays had bales for €3.99 but they were much smaller bales than usual, plus, they were wrapped in plastic! :rolleyes:

You're like me, looking suspiciously at WEIRD briquettes! I don't trust them new fangled yokes..

Brite_Cloud

What about the price paid by Mother Earth ??

This article (link below) says that even just digging peat up and using it in your flowerbeds is terrible for the environment. If that's true, then surely burning it must be even worse ??

http://www.kitchengarden.co.uk/news/the-peat-delusion

Basq

Sent you a PM TMB regarding the coal.

Does it burn well?

TequilaMockingBird

Brite_Cloud wrote: »

What about the price paid by Mother Earth ??

This article (link below) says that even just digging peat up and using it in your flowerbeds is terrible for the environment. If that's true, then surely burning it must be even worse ??

http://www.kitchengarden.co.uk/news/the-peat-delusion

AND THEN!!! putting the ashes in landfill. Have you fainted yet?

basquille wrote: »

Sent you a PM TMB regarding the coal.

Does it burn well?

Burns lovely. And smells lovely too!

Slidey

TequilaMockingBird wrote: »

AND THEN!!! putting the ashes in landfill. Have you fainted yet?

We'll burn in hell.. wonder what that'll do for the environment????

TequilaMockingBird

Slidey wrote: »

We'll burn in hell.. wonder what that'll do for the environment????

Our kids won't NEED to buy solid fuel, as our burning souls will heat up the earth. It's win/win really..

sligono1

The parents do buy them of a fella in grange i think he calls himself the coal bunker he charges €10 for 3 bales

Son Of A Vidic

TequilaMockingBird wrote: »

Great, thanks all.

Medicman, did you get sorted for turf? I got a load delivered yesterday, nice stuff for €3 a bag. PM me (anyone) if you want the guys number.

Thanks I did actually, being a newbie Bogman I didn't have all the contacts. But I do now:). A local farmer dropped me down a load of top quality turf, he doesn't normally sell it but being a 'local' he made an exception.

Sligored

3 bales briquettes for a tenner in the place at bottom of pearse road - formerly daveys petrol pumps

Basq

Sligored wrote: »

3 bales briquettes for a tenner in the place at bottom of pearse road - formerly daveys petrol pumps

Yep, same price for 3 bales of briquettes in the Farm Shop (beside The Food Experience in Wine Street Car Park) who also had 3 big bags of turf for €12.. so picked them up today.