Refillable LPG: Advice please

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DT1 1XU Dorchester
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Stealaway said:
In three years I've only had one girl come and check, at the Asda garage in Derby. As soon as she saw my bottles in the cabinet she smiled and walked back to the kiosk.
No problems
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Filled up there last Friday. Its a really slow pump. paid £0.79ppl
 
I recently fitted a Gaslow bottle and external filler. Kept a Calor gas bottle for now as it was nearly full. Have adopted the fill up when passing a LPG garage. Popped into Morrisons in Enfield yesterday and only managed around 3l @79p/l to fill up (£2.50). Thought I had used more than that in my last few trips 😂
myLPG app is brilliant and can also warn when no LPG in stock. Plan on travelling to France later in the year so will be handy too.
 
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I use just one Gaslow and have a calor as a spare. Have done 18 months like that and never used the calor!
 
nicholsong said:
They will, or should, know if you fill with diesel at the same time.

Anyway does anyone on with an LPG-powered engine stop for 12lt of LPG?
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I never fill with diesel and lpg at the same time for this reason. They won't know you only want 12L until you've filled. They can't suck it back out.
 
DJL220 said:
I recently fitted a Gaslow bottle and external filler. Kept a Calor gas bottle for now as it was nearly full. Have adopted the fill up when passing a LPG garage. Popped into Morrisons in Enfield yesterday and only managed around 3l @79p/l to fill up (£2.50). Thought I had used more than that in my last few trips 😂
myLPG app is brilliant and can also warn when no LPG in stock. Plan on travelling to France later in the year so will be handy too.
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From experience I think that the Gaslow bottle gauge is not entirely reliable! I always get less in than I was expecting. The only reliable gauge on my Gaslow system is the the red flag on the auto change over valve..........
 
VXman said:
I use just one Gaslow and have a calor as a spare. Have done 18 months like that and never used the calor!
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Same for me.
Been hauling around an unused full Calor gas bottle since 2019.

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R100SRS said:
From experience I think that the Gaslow bottle gauge is not entirely reliable! I always get less in than I was expecting. The only reliable gauge on my Gaslow system is the the red flag on the auto change over valve..........
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I find that even when the needle is at the bottom of the red sector and fill to top it only takes about 14lts of the 18lts capacity so there was 4lts left.
 
Stealaway said:
How do you know you've not over filled it?
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He has already filled many others before mine. I think he knows what he's doing. His meter measured 12 litres (6kg bottle). Sounds about right.
 
VXman said:
It does make me wonder why people fit expensive double bottle and auto changeover systems.
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We are all paranoid belt and braces people with a plan b in case no LPG available.
;)


At some point in the future I'll swap my big Calor bottle which I never use for the smallest GasLow bottle available as my emergency backup.
It will give me back half a locker of space and at least a few days notice that I need to find a supplier of LPG.

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VXman said:
It does make me wonder why people fit expensive double bottle and auto changeover systems.
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We use an 11 kg in 3 days in winter
So have often gone away with 2 x 11 kg and a 19 kg as a back up .
But we don’t use ehu .
 
We use our van all year round, having the two tanks is handy as although the van (2019 Burstner A Class) it soon uses the gas. Also it frees up the gas locker for the wet weather gear, snow chains etc. each tank is controller by a switch inside the van.
 
VXman said:
It does make me wonder why people fit expensive double bottle and auto changeover systems.
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We had just an 11kg originally but didn't do more than 3 week trips so having a Calor as a backup was okay, we then got a Chausson that only took a single bottle so the Calor was ditched but again we only did short trips. When we changed to PVC our single bottle was all that would fit, however our 2 subsequent ones took 2 bottles so we had 11kg and snaffled a cheap 6kg Gaslow one at the Peterborough show to go with it as we were then doing longer trips away. A couple of years later when the opportunity arose to get a nearly new 11kg locally I did so and sold the 6kg, as we were doing even longer trips and in cooler weather it meant we had sufficient to keep us going without having to be concerned about topping up when the needle dropped.

Our way of holidaying has changed, instead of moving on every day, we can stay up to 5 days in one spot so having 2 x 11kg cylinders means we don't have to move if we don't want to if one is getting low, if I had to buy the system again we might consider just having one but the convenience and lack of worry by having 2 would probably mean we'd still have 2.

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Minxy said:
We had just an 11kg originally but didn't do more than 3 week trips so having a Calor as a backup was okay, we then got a Chausson that only took a single bottle so the Calor was ditched but again we only did short trips. When we changed to PVC our single bottle was all that would fit, however our 2 subsequent ones took 2 bottles so we had 11kg and snaffled a cheap 6kg Gaslow one at the Peterborough show to go with it as we were then doing longer trips away. A couple of years later when the opportunity arose to get a nearly new 11kg locally I did so and sold the 6kg, as we were doing even longer trips and in cooler weather it meant we had sufficient to keep us going without having to be concerned about topping up when the needle dropped.

Our way of holidaying has changed, instead of moving on every day, we can stay up to 5 days in one spot so having 2 x 11kg cylinders means we don't have to move if we don't want to if one is getting low, if I had to buy the system again we might consider just having one but the convenience and lack of worry by having 2 would probably mean we'd still have 2.
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Depends on weather I suppose but we did 10 days without moving at the Le Mans 24 hour race last year. We have one 11KG gaslow. Cooking and showers and it was plenty. Calor there as back up but as always not used.

We tend not to do much travelling in the winter. Prefer to be curled up round the wood burner.
 
Stealaway said:
In three years I've only had one girl come and check, at the Asda garage in Derby. As soon as she saw my bottles in the cabinet she smiled and walked back to the kiosk.
No problems
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Well if you will try and take the canopy off what do you expect. :rofl:
 
VXman said:
Depends on weather I suppose but we did 10 days without moving at the Le Mans 24 hour race last year. We have one 11KG gaslow. Cooking and showers and it was plenty. Calor there as back up but as always not used.

We tend not to do much travelling in the winter. Prefer to be curled up round the wood burner.
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Yup weather and time of year makes a difference, when we went in December down through France it was below freezing during the night and not much above it during the day so we used a fair bit of gas due to having the heating on, then once we were in Spain even though the days were warm as soon as the sun went down the temperature plummeted many times to just above freezing. Driving back up through France in February was blooming cold too! :cold:
 
Thank you for all your advice and comments, they are much appreciated. I’m still not decided but will probably go with a Safefill and a Calor back up.

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Jono said:
Thank you for all your advice and comments, they are much appreciated. I’m still not decided but will probably go with a Safefill and a Calor back up.
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On a Motorhome I would personally recommend you go with a system that can have an external filler point.
We sell plenty of both but I would say we get more people with Safefill that have problems finding places to fill .
 
Just filled up today at Cheshire gas, Stockport. 80p a litre. First fill of the year and only took 7.5 litres (2 x 6kg gaslow).(y)
 
I know it's possible as someone had fitted to my old van but is it permissible to have a tandem setup. Underslung tank and bottles, switching between either? The benefit being not having to move van to filling station when bulk tank runs out Looking at options to maximise winter off-grid stay with Alde. Also cont find a tank larger than 100ltr at the mo. Anyone know of larger capacity available Ta. P.
 
bugcab said:
I know it's possible as someone had fitted to my old van but is it permissible to have a tandem setup. Underslung tank and bottles, switching between either? The benefit being not having to move van to filling station when bulk tank runs out Looking at options to maximise winter off-grid stay with Alde. Also cont find a tank larger than 100ltr at the mo. Anyone know of larger capacity available Ta. P.
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Basildog
 
In winter months with the heating on 24/7, we can easily go through 1 x 11Kg refillable in 5 x days.
Fortunately, we carry two. :)

I was a big fan of my underslung bulk tank, but have since adapted to the refillable cylinders I inherited, despite having a third less gas capacity than before.

My advice is, if you have the locker space, fit 2 x refillables, even if different sizes, or an underslung bulk tank where the chassis space allows it.

Cheers,

Jock. :)

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