Where has all the Calor Gas gone?

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No 6kg bottles to be had in SW England or South Wales. Managed to get a 3.9kg in Ilfracombe but that’s all.
 
They’ve been hit by a perfect storm, Covid has reduced production, the earlier hot weather and growth in caravan and motor home sales led to a 45% increase in demand, bbq’s etc. This forced them to stop selling to new customers and they are still struggling to meet demand from existing customers in some areas.
 
Depending on what you mean by SW England. My two usual suppliers in SE Cornwall have stocks of Calorlite and standard 6kg propane, but I guess that's too far south for you?
 
We have a local plant nursery/log supplier/garden centre type place couple miles up the road that supplies calor.
Got our second bottle from them about 2 months back.

I'll check in with them when I get a chance and see what's happening.

This is in North Durham, btw.
 
It is more widespread than just the South. I went to two suppliers on a Yorkshire road trip both sold out.
On return to the correct side of the Pennines I phoned a local tool hire centre. They had one left, I was there in under 5 minutes to collect.
 
We were in a marina in Emsworth a couple of weeks ago & got their last 6kg. Pity 'cos it was cheap!
 
Same on Galloway coast in Scotland.
Three suppliers with none and eventually managed to get last 13kg,with no sixes available.
All suppliers I rang did not expect any in the near future.
 
Since posting, we’ve moved on to Mid Wales and the situation is unchanged. Stopped at 3 Calor stockists on way and all were sold out. highbridge caravans even had a custom sign up outside.

two places in Newport and Raglan had none, but the latter did have 1 3.9 so we took it.
 
GeoffL said:
Depending on what you mean by SW England. My two usual suppliers in SE Cornwall have stocks of Calorlite and standard 6kg propane, but I guess that's too far south for you?
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Buy them then: if they really do have stock.
 
Guff666 said:
Buy them then: if they really do have stock.
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Why would I do that? I have two 6kg 'lite' cylinders. One that I only bought two weeks ago from one of those suppliers and a full one in reserve. I checked whether they had stock in case the info might be of use to members in the region. I phoned one and the other lists both types of 6kg propane cylinders in stock on their website. HE Goldworthy of Liskeard delivers to SE Cornwall only, but South West Fuels of Trerulefoot, Saltash claims to serve the whole of South West England and so might be of use to you.
 
I suspect a lot more items will become scarce in the coming months.

Just tried sourcing and buying a long handled bulb planter, always wanted one so though I'd go for it.
Hardly any around, out of stock on Amazon, apart from the really expensive 100 quid jobbies(!)
Thought I'd found a decent one on eBay today at a reasonable price - still more expensive than a few months ago - but got a message back and refund almost straight away to say they are out of stock and not sure when or if new supplies will arrive.

So many things have been affected by this virus and are in very short supply or have already vanished.

Trouble is, I can't think what else any of us might need that is useful and could soon disappear, possibly for good?

Maybe it's worth starting a thread with a list of interesting possibilities so those who need to can do a bit of 'prep' just in case?
(for 'prep' read 'stash').

Sounds like those 6kg gas cylinders may already be on the list. :(
 
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May be a bit more to this our local supplier has had a run on all bottled gas with people bringing back part full ones to exchange for a full one could be like the run on toilet rolls earlier this year. He's now selling the part full ones to people who he says are desperate for gas
 
witzend said:
May be a bit more to this our local supplier has had a run on all bottled gas with people bringing back part full ones to exchange for a full one could be like the run on toilet rolls earlier this year. He's now selling the part full ones to people who he says are desperate for gas
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Interesting...
 
Fazerloz said:
How to cause panic buying. Post on tintereweb there is a shortage.
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Well, I certainly don't expect the whole world to be panic buying long handled bulb planters, Faz! 😝 😂 ;)

Joking aside, the potential shortages could be more serious in the longer term.
Supply chains already interrupted, businesses going bust, nothing replacing the products that are not being manufactured... ?
 
mariesnowgoose said:
Well, I certainly don't expect the whole world to be panic buying long handled bulb planters, Faz! 😝 😂 ;)

Joking aside, the potential shortages could be more serious in the longer term.
Supply chains already interrupted, businesses going bust, nothing replacing the products that are not being manufactured... ?
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You missed the long handled bulb planter boat. They all sold out to the aged gardeners at the start of lock down. A new supply boat should be arriving soon from China with long handled planters and maybe other surprises. (y)
 
mariesnowgoose said:
Well, I certainly don't expect the whole world to be panic buying long handled bulb planters, Faz! 😝 😂 ;)
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The long handled whatsit reserves were tiny because a tad of demand and a smidge of supply, and then many short bending people were stuck at home bored.

Why is a shortage a surprise? Lol
 
mariesnowgoose said:
I suspect a lot more items will become scarce in the coming months. Maybe it's worth starting a thread with a list of interesting possibilities so those who need to can do a bit of 'prep' just in case? Sounds like those 6kg gas cylinders may already be on the list. :(
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Put deep freezer on the list took us 6 weeks to get a reasonable priced one ours wasn't big enough so though we'd get a bigger one none available when we where notified of stock we missed them twice only got this one when text came during night they had 5 by 8 am they again had none
 
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