Oil, coal, turf, briquettes and firewood, where to get?

bikr

dafunk wrote: »

Thanks for that. Cosyhome said they'd deliver 85 litres for 100 quid. I know it's cheaper to buy in bulk but a bit broke this month!

Citybin does 100 litres for 102-103 euro.
I got oil from them recently 500 for 390€. Excelent service.
I wasn't sure if I need to bleed the boiler or not and the driver checked it for me. He was very nice.

gaillimhabu

Online checking this morning for 500 litres. Did anyone find better than Sutton?

Sutton €399.50
Texoil €405
Jones €410
top.ie €410
citybin €410
corrib oil €410

leex

gaillimhabu wrote: »

Online checking this morning for 500 litres. Did anyone find better than Sutton?

Sutton €399.50
Texoil €405
Jones €410
top.ie €410
citybin €410
corrib oil €410

After seeing your post here I rang Suttons to place an order and their price over the phone was 1.4c cheaper than online price for 600L.

996tt

leex wrote: »

After seeing your post here I rang Suttons to place an order and their price over the phone was 1.4c cheaper than online price for 600L.

its always worth ringing, you have nothing to lose, it could be as simple as they are already going to your area for another delivery so they will give you a competitive quote as they have covered their truck/driver costs in the first delivery

leex

Due to lots of oil thefts in recent times I always order the minimum I can at the lowest price per litre so I'm not penalised on litre price for ordering less than a full tank. From talking to Suttons today once you go over 400euro for a domestic fill the price per litre remains the same. From my previous supplier I had to order roughly 50% more.

gaillimhabu

Thanks for the advice guys....I rang Sutton and asked how much 500 litres was.
I think she said €405

I said that it was €399.50 online through cheapestoil.ie so she matched that.

Then asked how much extra would I need to get a the cheapest price per litre which is currentlly 78c

So had to up it to 550 litres at a total price of €429

That's probably as good as I can get anywhere

Iwannahurl

I was delayed in ordering oil because of a bank hold-up.

I mean I was held up by the bank! Took a few days to deliver and activate a laser card for a new current account.

In the meantime, one of the cheapest quotes I got earlier (78 cent from Corrib on Feb 1) had gone up by 3 cent/litre, and there's another 1.6 cent going on at midnight tonight!

They're blaming it on the unrest in Egypt.

I ordered it from Cosy Home at the 78c they quoted me on Feb 1.

Xantras

Hi, I ordered off Texoil, I'm in headford road area and got it just now, they charged me 400, which was cheaper than any other crowd, I rang suttons and they wanted 405 tried to mention about the 399.50 they said price was gone up and wont change it. Found teexoil pretty good

snubbleste

Top.ie have an ad in the advertiser today using code GA0311 saving €20 off 1000l bringing it to €755.

skdb

11.02.2011 (500Litres Kero)

• TexOil - €410.00
• Corrib Oil - €400.00
• Claddagh Oil Co - €390.00
• Top Sweeney/Rabbitt Oil/East Galway Oil/Hi-Way Oil - €415.00
• The OIL Company - €385.00
• CosyHome Heating - €400.00
• Suttons Oil - €410.00

The OIL Company get my order for the 3rd time running :-)
(Dont forget to hagle)

portcrap

500L Kero

Galway Oil Company - - - - - - did not return call
City Bin - - - - - - - - -- - - - - €440 with 1 month free bin = €415
Corrib Oil - - - - - - -- - - - - - €440
Texoil - - - - - - -- - - - - - -- - €440 (can go as low as €425 with haggling)

alibabba

Forgive me if its been posted already but ...

I saw yesterday the Filling Station on the Tuam Road are selling home heating oil in 25 L Cans!

Iwannahurl

alibabba wrote: »

Forgive me if its been posted already but ...

I saw yesterday the Filling Station on the Tuam Road are selling home heating oil in 25 L Cans!

Sign of the times! Perhaps an unintended effect might be a reduction in theft from domestic oil tanks?

Hotwheels

alibabba wrote: »

Forgive me if its been posted already but ...

I saw yesterday the Filling Station on the Tuam Road are selling home heating oil in 25 L Cans!

Lots of people coming into corrib oil filling jerry cans, lack of money imo, fuel poverty..

cartman51773

anyone know how much kerosene you would burn on average per hour. just have about 50 litres left in the tank and want to see how long it will stretch

alibabba

cartman51773 wrote: »

anyone know how much kerosene you would burn on average per hour. just have about 50 litres left in the tank and want to see how long it will stretch

Really depends on what temp you have stat at.
Turn it down to the last, turn off non-essential rads around the house, stick on an extra layer or two and it will last forever.
:-)

cartman51773

thanks for that useless information. it has been processed. temp stat is at 22c

Gallimh girl

500 litres kero 11/03/11

Cosy home heating - €435
The Oil Company - €430
Texoil - €440
Corrib Oil - €455
Top/Sweeney - €450

The Oil Company and Cosy home heating are the way to go it seems, good prices and deliver on the day unlike the others.

kardarie

We got 350 litres of oil last week for €300 from Ballindine Oil. Rang around a lot of companies at the time and they were a few cent cheaper.

Interceptor

1000 litres = €840 from Elite Oil in Belclare

Holy mother of eternal succour - I'm going to have to go on the game to keep the family warm.

'cptr

seriouslysweet

A grand to fill our tank, I don't know how some people manage at all.

martyboy48

580 litres= €500 Corrib oil today

bagels

Tried this website:

https://www.unitedwesave.ie/


Excerpt from emails i received from them:

Hi there,
Thanks for joining our home oil buying group.
This week we have negotiated a group price of .80c per litre, including VAT.
You can avail of this price for orders of 500 litres and above. Please reply YES if you wish to avail of this offer.
We have buying groups now open for home insurance, electricity, gas and domestic waste. Please log-in and join these groups now to save.
Please tell some friends, family and neighbours about www.unitedwesave.ie
Thanks
Mary

Hello *****
Thanks for confirming your order with www.unitedwesave.ie.
This week we negotiated the best price from TOP
We will pass your contact details to them and they will be in touch with you directly to arrange delivery, payment, etc. This is a payment on delivery price.
We have buying groups now open for home insurance, electricity, gas and domestic waste. Please log-in and join these groups now to save.
Please tell some friends, family and neighbours about www.unitedwesave.ie
Thanks
Mary


I ordered 600 litres on 4th March, €480.
Supplier was TOP in Belclare, formerly O'Gradys Oil.


I have no connection with the website, TOP or O'Gradys Oil.

JohnCleary

Pitty it only lets you select Kerosene, i'd be interested in getting bulk green diesel (1000l)

bagels

JohnCleary wrote: »

Pitty it only lets you select Kerosene, i'd be interested in getting bulk green diesel (1000l)

Maybe they can set something up?
I'd email them if i was you.

biko

biko wrote: »

Currently
citybin (for customers) 300L = 258 euro
500L = 395 euro

top.ie 300L = 255 euro
500L = 415 euro

jonesoil 300L = 265 euro
500L = 402 euro

texoil 300L = 288 euro
500L = 400 euro

Just checked there again for 300L
Citybin 300L = 282, was 258 euro 2 months ago.
top.ie 300L = 275, was 255 euro
jonesoil 300L = 288, was 265 euro

The Oil Company 270 for 300L.

snubbleste

1000l
Texoil €860
Corrib €862

gaillimhabu

500 litres

Texoil €409.45
Jones €410
Sutton €420
Citybin €420 (customer)
Cosyhome €420

Cosyhome rang me back and said they would do €409 once they heard the Texoil price so went with that.

buzz55

Hi, trying to get organized for the winter ahead of time this year if I can.

Where is the cheapest place to order a tonne of coal to be delivered? Would there be much diff in cost picking it up yourself in a trailer?

Also want to bulk buy turf/briquettes - anyone seen good deals around for bundles?

cheers

wet-paint

I paid €120 for four hundred kilos from the depot out Carnmore Cross. Picked it up myself. Great stuff it was too.

gaeilgegrinds1

Cheapest ye can find? So far a toss up between City Bin and Corrib for me, got €15 in vouchers for Corrib today though...

skelliser

wet-paint wrote: »

I paid €120 for four hundred kilos from the depot out Carnmore Cross. Picked it up myself. Great stuff it was too.

400kg of turf?

I'd be interested to know the cheapest place for bags of coal and bales of briquettes.

I've seen 10 bales for €30 somewhere

amiable

Maybe people can post how much they paid per 500 litres or 1000 litres like the thread that was running last winter?:)

Ps, i'll be calling around tomorrow morning so i'll post the best i can find then.
Don't forget to haggle people

amiable

rarnes1 wrote: »

I'd be interested to know the cheapest place for bags of coal and bales of briquettes.

I've seen 10 bales for €30 somewhere

10 bales for 30 would be very good IMO.
Keep an eye out rarnes

snubbleste

Best to find the old thread.. and add to it
Heating oil is currently hovering circa €800 per 1000l

orangebud

snubbleste wrote: »

Heating oil is currently hovering circa €800 per 1000l

i better buy a snuggie

RolandIRL

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055397193&page=26

^^Previous thread...wonder how much prices have risen this year

orangebud

Oranmore petrol station was selling 10 bales for around 30 last year

amiable

http://www.cheapestoil.ie/heating-oil-prices/Galway.aspx

wet-paint

skelliser wrote: »

400kg of turf?

Well I've never heard of a turf depot nor bought it by weight, so...

But Buzz, a tonne of coal wouldn't be too big a deal to transport if you can borrow a trailer from someone. Best ring the lads themselves and see what their price differences are.
Avoid that eazyglow/cozyglow ****e if you can at all, there's fk all heat from them.

BESman

I worked in the oil industry a few years ago and I know from experience that most suppliers provide prices based on quantity ordered. Therefore, each supplier will have different prices depending on the amount you order. So it is inaccurate to say one supplier is cheaper than another as it all depends on the amount you order. In any event, there is little difference between the suppliers in Galway. In my experience, Corrib Oil are probably the best priced but I would advise anyone to call around to get different quotes for the quantity you want.

gozunda

BESman wrote: »

I worked in the oil industry a few years ago and I know from experience that most suppliers provide prices based on quantity ordered. Therefore, each supplier will have different prices depending on the amount you order. So it is inaccurate to say one supplier is cheaper than another as it all depends on the amount you order. In any event, there is little difference between the suppliers in Galway. In my experience, Corrib Oil are probably the best priced but I would advise anyone to call around to get different quotes for the quantity you want.

Not necessarily so. Oil companies will give standard quotes based on 500 or 1000 litres.

I use this to determine who is the cheapest in my area (I border 3 different delivery areas) Prices can vary between companies by 10 to 40 euro for a set quote.

Some companies just take the proverbial....

whitelightrider

Going by the Texoil online ordering tool its now at €415 for 500l. Thats gone up €10 from when I checked last week.
Ill call around tomorrow also and see what prices I get.

skelliser

service station down the docks have smokeless coal 20kg bags for 6.99euro
cheapest iv seen in the city.

The service station at carnmore cross has 10 bales of briquettes for ~33euro iirc

i suspect the 400kg of coal for 120euro mentioned above is normal coal so its useless to city dwellers. we can only burn smokeless coal.

GalwayGaillimh

Well if you have an open fire consider putting in a insert stove burns alot less fuel and throws out way more heat for longer. Got one last winter and its a very worthwhile investment.

beardybrewer

orangebud wrote: »

Oranmore petrol station was selling 10 bales for around 30 last year

The new petrol station by the harbour hotel had a deal like that 1 or 2 years ago. Joyce's typically offers a deal something akin to 5 for €18 but think they changed it last year (in their favour)

?Cee?view

skelliser wrote: »

i suspect the 400kg of coal for 120euro mentioned above is normal coal so its useless to city dwellers. we can only burn smokeless coal.

That's not actually correct. It's illegal to sell coal that isn't smokeless in the city. It's not illegal to burn it. Nothing to stop a person buying normal coal outside the city.

irisheddie85

petrol station at the docks has briquttes 10 for 30 but they are not bord na mona. they are slightly smaller in size but seem to burn about the same.
They have a big sign up saying to ask about bulk discount on coal and briquttes so that may be even cheaper not sure on price though

KittyeeTrix

GalwayDotCom wrote: »

Well if you have an open fire consider putting in a insert stove burns alot less fuel and throws out way more heat for longer. Got one last winter and its a very worthwhile investment.

+1

We put in one of these stoves during the summer and the heat in the sitting room compared to the open fire is outstanding!!!
3 briquettes burning in it heats the whole room, just sorry we didn't get one years ago