Does Anyone Sell Coal on here?

[Tomatin Firewood]

I started doing Fergus 25kg bags of coal as a little extra last year but the margins on it were very small. Does anyone on here do coal and if so have any tips to source the stuff a bit cheaper!

[gensetsteve]

Try A E Prentice nr Oxford

[doobin]

Why make tiny profit on a bit of coal when all it does is delay the day that your customers re-order your more profitable logs?

[Alycidon]

Some customers load coal overnight. They will buy it from somewhere.

 

Just remember that ordinary Coal should not be used tin a stove, use smokeless load or smokeless fuel in a stove.

 

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[Tomatin Firewood]

Why make tiny profit on a bit of coal when all it does is delay the day that your customers re-order your more profitable logs?

 

Selling the coal does not really slow me down as I just put the bag/s in back of pickup. But to only make around £1.5 a bag does start to make you think whether it is worth the bother.

[gensetsteve]

£1.50 a bag sounds ok to me. Not had to season it for 12 months+ or smash it out of the ground. We sell kindling for £1.60 a bag trade and there is 60p of material before you even take out the labour. £6 for a bag of logs looks good till you work out its cost you £4 to get it to their door.