GAS prices

I have recently fitted a single 6 kilo refillable from Gasit at a cost of £205 + £12 for a hole saw. Filling it up cost me £6.80 as opposed to £23 for a 6 kilo Calor lite. As a 6kilo lite last three weeks on average when away, it won't take too long to get a return on my investment. I also have the convenience of not bothering with foreign bottles when in Europe. I carry a a 6 kilo Calor lite as a backup.
 
I have heard of people filling their own bottles at the pumps so they must be using these I am going to call at the local car wash they have a LPG tank will see if they will fill my calor lite I have 2 spare empty ones
 
Chris356 said:
I have heard of people filling their own bottles at the pumps so they must be using these I am going to call at the local car wash they have a LPG tank will see if they will fill my calor lite I have 2 spare empty ones
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ok good luck! let us know how you get on cheers
 
Trying to fill a bottle with one of those adaptors is likely to get you into trouble pretty fast.

There is no 80% cut-off just for starters, which is a requirement for refillable cylinders.

Peter
 
not all tanks etc do have 80% cut off s. some have liquid bleed off valves . i have a few calor tanks with them .
my house main tank as bleed off as well.
filling adaptors have been around for 40 yrs that i know of . most only got to know of it on ebay. but folk have been filling bottles for years .
the pump pressure should let the pump switch off at 90% if its working properly.
even calor put more than that into house tanks when they deliver. and have been for years .
 
On the subject of motorhome 'extras' adding value to your van, it would probably only work with private sales.
Brownhills, advised me to take off what I needed from my exchange van, as the new van was stripped of 'extras', although my brother exchanged his van down south and the solar panel and sat dish were still attached.
 
bill scouse said:
The amount on the bottle is 80% ie 6kg which is 12 litres.
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No, not quite. The specific gravity of Calor propane according to Section 9.1 of their HSE Data Sheet is 0.512 at 15 degrees Celsius so their 6Kg cylinder holds 11.72 litres of propane at that temperature. A 12 litre fill will be overfilling.

For reference, their butane SG is 0.575, at the same temperature see HERE.
 
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Cornishaich said:
I have recently fitted a single 6 kilo refillable from Gasit at a cost of £205 + £12 for a hole saw. Filling it up cost me £6.80 as opposed to £23 for a 6 kilo Calor lite. As a 6kilo lite last three weeks on average when away, it won't take too long to get a return on my investment. I also have the convenience of not bothering with foreign bottles when in Europe. I carry a a 6 kilo Calor lite as a backup.
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Exactly what we did! Fitted 2 Gaslow 6kg in the locker with external fill pipe. Some stations here & abroad won't let you fill directly to the bottles. Now it costs only around £5 to fill up each bottle!
If abroad just carry the european adaptors. Job done! :dance:
 
vwalan said:
not all tanks etc do have 80% cut off s. some have liquid bleed off valves . i have a few calor tanks with them .
my house main tank as bleed off as well.
filling adaptors have been around for 40 yrs that i know of . most only got to know of it on ebay. but folk have been filling bottles for years .
the pump pressure should let the pump switch off at 90% if its working properly.
even calor put more than that into house tanks when they deliver. and have been for years .
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Now Alan, your house tank does not move and slosh around much though does it and the feed pipe to the house forms a bigger expansion vessel than the average length of pipe in a van.

Richard
 
Whilst I know that some people get away with using the Calor adapters, as I understand it, the garage allowing you to use them are very likely to lose their concession.
Do look into GAS IT, it is well worth it. After you have forgotten how much you paid for it, you can travel all over Europe without a care in the world and paying a pittance for gas. eg. Luxenburg .49 euros/litre, about 34p.
By the time you get to this stage, you will realise what an absolute rip-off the Calor exchange system is.
Every time that you exchange a Calor bottle, you are paying somewhere in the region of £20 on top of the cost of gas, for the privilage.
As I mentioned in a previous post, full members of this forum can claim 5% off the purchase price, but they do check that you are in fact a full member.
Regards Rog.
 
Another vote for Gas-it. I went for twin 6kg with external fill this year. I quite look forward to filling up now, knowing how much I used to pay for Calor!
The other advantage, apart from cost and easier European touring, is the fact that you can top up whenever you want, you don't have to empty a cylinder to exchange it, hoping you don't use up all of your second one before you can do so.
Gas-it equipment is cheaper than Gaslow equivalent too.
 
Just trying to get my head around this GAS IT, and is it worth my while,

the price up here is around 75/80p Per Ltr for LPG at a filling station

I have meantime 2 calor btls, 1 6kg and 1 13kg, the 6 is £20.25 and the 13 is £26.25, but I`m not sure what price that would make the Calor per Ltr.

Also, it sounds like it is illegal to fill bottles for cooking/heating as opposed to filling your vehicle fuel tank, hence the best way is to have an external fill so it looks like your filling the vehicle.

I might eventually venture over the channel, but mostly will be around scotland, would it be worth my while swapping over or would it take forever to regain the cost of the new system, we use gas for heating, cooking and the BBQ, and go away around 5 weeks a year and a weekend per month.

Or how much is the Calor per litre I`m buying just now and I`ll work it out out. Cheers.
 
In Cumbria £30 odd is about right for 15kg calor, I pay £36 for the 15kg butane bottle for calor heater in my house at local garage. It's maybe a few quid cheaper at Go Outdoors with membership card but its a 40 mile round trip to the nearest (no mains gas in the village).

I wouldn't want to be messing around using LPG to refill in the van and don't travel abroad so I just bite the bullet and pay a rather expensive £16 for 3.9kg calor propane for the van but it lasts me 3 weeks of continual living in the van in winter (camping stove double burner used for cooking and heating). Last year I only used 1 bottle between May and October so the annual cost is not too bad over all, maybe 6 bottles per year, so approx £100 gas per year. I probably spend about 75% of the year in my van. Am currently spending about half the week in the van and current 3.9kg bottle has lasted a month so far. In remote areas, much easier to find somewhere to swop a calor bottle than it is to find a garage selling LPG.
 
Go GAS-IT, you will not regret your choice....

Johnnygm7lsi said:
Just trying to get my head around this GAS IT, and is it worth my while,

the price up here is around 75/80p Per Ltr for LPG at a filling station

I have meantime 2 calor btls, 1 6kg and 1 13kg, the 6 is £20.25 and the 13 is £26.25, but I`m not sure what price that would make the Calor per Ltr.

Also, it sounds like it is illegal to fill bottles for cooking/heating as opposed to filling your vehicle fuel tank, hence the best way is to have an external fill so it looks like your filling the vehicle.

I might eventually venture over the channel, but mostly will be around scotland, would it be worth my while swapping over or would it take forever to regain the cost of the new system, we use gas for heating, cooking and the BBQ, and go away around 5 weeks a year and a weekend per month.

Or how much is the Calor per litre I`m buying just now and I`ll work it out out. Cheers.
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GAS-IT, well, excellent Company, and I am not easy to please, most helpful, ordered the cylinder with associated ironmongery and it arrived suitably packed by Courier within 24 hrs. Having got over the 'am I sure that I can cut a hole in the side of my Motorhome without a major disaster' syndrome it was all down hill.

You simply fit it & forget it, you then have the luxury of filling-up at the cheapest garages, when you want to and basically you'll never run out, I also keep plumbed in a standard gas bottle for emergencies, but basically it couldn't be simpler. My drilled hole required for mounting the filler on the motorhome exterior near the Gas Locker, is actually round and resembles a circular hole, so there, house points there for me :dance:

As an aside, if you're thinking of going anywhere near the 'Outer Hebrides', as of this past summer there were only 2 LPG fill-up Garages, both in Stornaway and only a stones throw from one another, 1 Garage LPG was defective and therefore couldn't supply, I think the other knew as the price that they were charging was verging on the criminal. Fill-up before you leave the mainland.

Captain Biggles :plane:
 
Johnnygm7lsi said:
Just trying to get my head around this GAS IT, and is it worth my while,

the price up here is around 75/80p Per Ltr for LPG at a filling station

I have meantime 2 calor btls, 1 6kg and 1 13kg, the 6 is £20.25 and the 13 is £26.25, but I`m not sure what price that would make the Calor per Ltr.

Also, it sounds like it is illegal to fill bottles for cooking/heating as opposed to filling your vehicle fuel tank, hence the best way is to have an external fill so it looks like your filling the vehicle.

I might eventually venture over the channel, but mostly will be around scotland, would it be worth my while swapping over or would it take forever to regain the cost of the new system, we use gas for heating, cooking and the BBQ, and go away around 5 weeks a year and a weekend per month.

Or how much is the Calor per litre I`m buying just now and I`ll work it out out. Cheers.
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It all depends on how much gas do you use. Charge yourself £2.00 per Kg for cylinder and 70p per kg for refillable. You seem to be paying a lot where you are and you will be able to fill up on your travels. Work it out for both systems over a period of a couple of years. Personally, it would take me far too long to make it worth while but if you are winter camping with a family taking lots of showers???

Richard
 
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