Any one sell coal as well as logs?

[cessna]

I am considering selling coal ,as a an add on to selling logs. Just wondering if many of you sell coal as well as firewood, so that one is offering a full service to older aged customers, that have small open fires in council houses and small cottages,who cannot afford to install a wood burner.

[pete23]

good idea, there any canals round your way?? worth a few flyers round them if there is.

[kindlett]

where is the best place to buy the 20 kg house coal ?

[all aspects]

Cpl house coal trade £5.95 a bag inc vat ,we resale at £9 not huge profit but only do if they haveing logs

[caveman1]

Have an artic load tipped up and bag it yourself in some coal delivery bags.

[detritus21]

Have an artic load tipped up and bag it yourself in some coal delivery bags.

That's almost as good as a coalman cutting down trees.

 

You need a bunker to store the coal. You need a loader to load into a bagging bunker. You then need to be proficient in filling the bags yes there is a technique. You need scales that will be checked by trading standards etc. You would also need significant capital to buy arctic amounts of coal. By a pallet load see if it sells.

[detritus21]

Experience tells me the above I did a couple of winters coal bagging and delivering.

[wardy]

We do prepacked coal and kindling with our logs just gives the customer more choice , not a great deal of profit in it but cheaper than our local garages.

[philcaegrug]

An arctic of coal will be around £5000 (+vat at 20%) into lorry with delivery on top. Resale to the public is at 5% so best to be vat registered.

[CJM]

I've thought about selling fuel but not actually wanting to do it I'm just thinking out loud but I'd rather sell solid fuel then once I was established I'd sell logs. If I wasnt an Arbirist it wouldn't be a viable option I'd be buring coke or overbrights or even switch back to gas.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong but I'd of thought soild fuels would bring in more income than logs