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Best place to buy solid fuel?

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  • 15-09-2013 10:45pm
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    sillymoo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭


    Winter is coming and I am looking for the best value solid fuel to use in the open fireplace in my living room. Where is the best place to buy solid fuel - quality and value? I would be looking to get briquettes, coal and maybe some timber. Thanks!


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    Sky King
    Registered Users Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    I got top notch coal off a guy out in Comer last year... really great stuff and he was cheaper than anyone in town. And before the jokes start, no he wasn't a miner - it was in bags - didn't recognise the brand mind you, but it was deadly stuff. It burnt like crazy. I can't remember the guy's name - I might think of it.

    They won't sell you smokey coal in town take-away either anymore and smokeless coal is shyte so I just don't bother with it at all myself these days. Briquettes are shyte as well imo their ash to BTU ratio is way too high for me - you spend all day taking out ashes after them.

    Got stung buying saturated wood from a dealer in town two years in a row - never again. After year one when it happened I asked him was it dry and he assured me it was. Fk me, he must have been storing it under water - it wasn't just superficially wet, the bloody stuff was like a sponge. I went out to Paulstown in July during the heatwave this year and got two cubes of hardwood at a good price - it's absolutely bone dry and stacked up in my shed now so that should see me though the winter! Feel a bit like foxy after writing all that.


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    wilddarts
    Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭wilddarts


    There's a Cody's in Castlecomer, if that's who you're thinking of?


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    Wimbago
    Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭Wimbago


    Kilkenny Building Supplies across from Woodies have some decent offers


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    clivej
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    Lad in Paulstown sells timber by the trailer load. Best value I'v seen by a long mile. Will deliver as well.


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    foxcoverteddy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭foxcoverteddy


    I use Marble City in the Hebron he might not be the cheapest and no doubt the many posters might tell me where I c an get a better deal, and hopefully Sky King has recovered from his malaise of feeling like me.
    However; I would probably describe myself as a happy bunny, Whilst on the subject we burn smokeless in a multi fuel stove and someone said try anthracite any one views etc.
    It is cold enough to keep the fire in all night, right cheers


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