3.9kg FloGas

[Morgan The Goat]

Hi all

So I have changed my Bailey 75/2 for a PVC. I now have two 3.9kg bottles. I would like to hear from anyone who has experience with the little bottles on how long I can expect them to last on fairly moderate use. Typically breakfast and diner on the gas also a few days at a time wilding so heat and water also. I am pondering whether to fit a underslung bottle but at around £1000 to fit is it economical. Look forward to your thoughts

Jim

 

[Jev88]

Do you recall how long your old 6Kg (presumably) bottles lasted? I would just halve that amount of time?
Sorry if that sounds too simple an answer as I don't mean to poke fun but it might be the easiest answer for you.

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

Hi all

So I have changed my Bailey 75/2 for a PVC. I now have two 3.9kg bottles. I would like to hear from anyone who has experience with the little bottles on how long I can expect them to last on fairly moderate use. Typically breakfast and diner on the gas also a few days at a time wilding so heat and water also. I am pondering whether to fit a underslung bottle but at around £1000 to fit is it economical. Look forward to your thoughts

Jim

Have you thought of having an additional cooker, the small table top camping stoves that take the canisters of gas. The stoves are around £15 each and the gas canisters were £1 each in home bargains. Just to save yourself some gas for heating etc and just use the little stoves for a brew up or simple meal.

 

[poppycamper]

I have an underslung 30ltr tank... so 24ltr usable which equates to 12kg, so 2×6kg bottles.
We frequently survive for two weeks on a rally field using gas for fridge, cooking (oven on a few times and hot water couple hours each day.... very rarely use heating..
So basically one of your bottles should last 4 days ish.

 

[Riverbankannie]

I believe that the Calor 3.9 are now discontinued so you really need to think about alternatives. You don’t have to have an underslung tank but you can have a safefill fitted in the space.
I believe Basildog has a solution along these lines and Nanniemate currently having her van altered.

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[golly]

Can't help re small bottle usage , but I found the main advantage of fitting an underslung tank was the storage space freed up in the gas cupboard .

 

[poppycamper]

I believe that the Calor 3.9 are now discontinued so you really need to think about alternatives. You don’t have to have an underslung tank but you can have a safefill fitted in the space.
I believe Basildog has a solution along these lines and Nanniemate currently having her van altered.

OP says he has Flogas bottles.... are they also being discontinued or just Calor?

 

[Morgan The Goat]

OP says he has Flogas bottles.... are they also being discontinued or just Calor?

I have found a couple of FloGas. The dealer said there are no plans to discontinue them.

 

[Morgan The Goat]

Have you thought of having an additional cooker, the small table top camping stoves that take the canisters of gas. The stoves are around £15 each and the gas canisters were £1 each in home bargains. Just to save yourself some gas for heating etc and just use the little stoves for a brew up or simple meal.

I have two and do just that. I guess I will just suck it and see. Not the end of the world in the UK. Next year might be different as we are off to Italy through Switzerland.

 

[Morgan The Goat]

I believe that the Calor 3.9 are now discontinued so you really need to think about alternatives. You don’t have to have an underslung tank but you can have a safefill fitted in the space.
I believe Basildog has a solution along these lines and Nanniemate currently having her van altered.

Might be a solution. They are larger dims than the 3.9 so I will have a measure when I pick up the van.

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[Riverbankannie]

OP says he has Flogas bottles.... are they also being discontinued or just Calor?

Sorry missed that in the title.

 

[Servo]

Hi all

So I have changed my Bailey 75/2 for a PVC. I now have two 3.9kg bottles. I would like to hear from anyone who has experience with the little bottles on how long I can expect them to last on fairly moderate use. Typically breakfast and diner on the gas also a few days at a time wilding so heat and water also. I am pondering whether to fit a underslung bottle but at around £1000 to fit is it economical. Look forward to your thoughts

Jim

How about refillable

 

[Morgan The Goat]

How about refillable View attachment 743997

Don’t need the sales pitch. Especially with no prices thanks

 

[Servo]

Don’t need the sales pitch. Especially with no prices thanks

.????????????????? That’s rather a strange reply I’m trying to help I have no connection with this company only trying to help , price is on there website, have not posted for a long time , and with reply’s like yours I think I will get back in my box, I do ask your forgiveness.

 

[TrudeandDall]

Hi all

So I have changed my Bailey 75/2 for a PVC. I now have two 3.9kg bottles. I would like to hear from anyone who has experience with the little bottles on how long I can expect them to last on fairly moderate use. Typically breakfast and diner on the gas also a few days at a time wilding so heat and water also. I am pondering whether to fit a underslung bottle but at around £1000 to fit is it economical. Look forward to your thoughts

Jim

I would get around 2 to 3 weeks from a 3.9 on similar use to you, but including a gas fridge as we were off grid quite a bit. I changed them for 2 X 2.7 Gaslow, much the same size, but if you could get 2 X 6 kg Gaslow in then that would be a good and less expensive way to go than the underslung tank. Also having Gaslow bottles inside means virtually none of the corrosion issues that you see reported by funsters for their underslung tanks.

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[Riverbankannie]

.????????????????? That’s rather a strange reply I’m trying to help I have no connection with this company only trying to help , price is on there website, have not posted for a long time , and with reply’s like yours I think I will get back in my box, I do ask your forgiveness.

I agree, a rather odd comment to a genuinely helpful reply.

 

[tonka]

.????????????????? That’s rather a strange reply I’m trying to help I have no connection with this company only trying to help , price is on there website, have not posted for a long time , and with reply’s like yours I think I will get back in my box, I do ask your forgiveness.

Agree with you on that.
For people trying to help / offer advise it's a bit offhand as a reply..

 

[Basildog]

Have you thought of having an additional cooker, the small table top camping stoves that take the canisters of gas. The stoves are around £15 each and the gas canisters were £1 each in home bargains. Just to save yourself some gas for heating etc and just use the little stoves for a brew up or simple meal.

They all say that they aren’t suitable for indoor use unfortunately.

 

[Basildog]

Hi all

So I have changed my Bailey 75/2 for a PVC. I now have two 3.9kg bottles. I would like to hear from anyone who has experience with the little bottles on how long I can expect them to last on fairly moderate use. Typically breakfast and diner on the gas also a few days at a time wilding so heat and water also. I am pondering whether to fit a underslung bottle but at around £1000 to fit is it economical. Look forward to your thoughts

Jim

It would help if you could mention the van you are getting , is it gas heating , what gas appliances does it have ?

 

[Basildog]

I believe that the Calor 3.9 are now discontinued so you really need to think about alternatives. You don’t have to have an underslung tank but you can have a safefill fitted in the space.
I believe Basildog has a solution along these lines and Nanniemate currently having her van altered.

All depends on the van really and what gas appliances it has .
Smaller cylinders aren’t actually capable of producing enough gas especially in colder weather.

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[Nanniemate]

Don’t need the sales pitch. Especially with no prices thanks

.????????????????? That’s rather a strange reply I’m trying to help I have no connection with this company only trying to help , price is on there website, have not posted for a long time , and with reply’s like yours I think I will get back in my box, I do ask your forgiveness.

Agree with you on that.
For people trying to help / offer advise it's a bit offhand as a reply..

I Was going to explain what had options I had been offered as without Basildog's help and advice my van is without gas in the future. But ......im afraid it my be promotional posting.
Quite excited about dumping the obsolite calor especially as a bottle ran out heating the water this morning not quite the weather for cold showers yet