Very few customers are actually interested in the financial benefits it’s actually all about the convenience of not having to change heavy cylinders and the ability to top up .
I’m not with you here Minxy, the same applies to yours, replace at 10 years as can’t get them tested?Makes me glad I've got refillable cylinders!
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Wow I’m amazed at that there’s obviously plenty of money still flying around the leisure sector then.
Still really need retest/ replacement at 10 years
I'm not on about the retesting requirement, I'm on about the terrible condition, I'm surprise it was still safe to use FOR 10 years, if I saw an underslung tank like that after 5 years I'd be replacing it!
No that's exactly as I read it and where I'll be going if they're still doing it next year.The Gaslow site has a page on recertification /testing of cylinders, or rather an exchange scheme. From my reading the scheme is for £99 (inc vat) per cylinder you can take your cylinder there and have them exchanged for certified ones etc. Gaslow cylinders are ‘certified’ for 15 years. At least that’s the way I’m reading it.....or am I getting it wrong!
Re-certified Gaslow Cylinders
How does the Re-certification or Replacement cylinder Scheme work? Option1 Gaslow can offer you a like for like cylinder re-certification scheme, where
Now that sounds much better than having the whole lot replaced.The Gaslow site has a page on recertification /testing of cylinders, or rather an exchange scheme. From my reading the scheme is for £99 (inc vat) per cylinder you can take your cylinder there and have them exchanged for certified ones etc. Gaslow cylinders are ‘certified’ for 15 years. At least that’s the way I’m reading it.....or am I getting it wrong!
Re-certified Gaslow Cylinders
How does the Re-certification or Replacement cylinder Scheme work? Option1 Gaslow can offer you a like for like cylinder re-certification scheme, where
So this is so different to what Basildog has said and so much cheaper.
Scuba cylinders (last time I looked) need an internal visual check every 2.5 years and hydrostatic (overpressured) testing every 5 years. But they also operate at far higher pressures than the LPG cylinders, a standard scuba being filled to 232 bar. If your cylinder is used for Nitrox (an Oxygen enriched gas, or Helium) then the cylinder will need cleaning internally every year (most filling systems can add the required amount of oxygen first before topping up with helium / air, and as oxygen aids combustion, the heat of the filling process - cylinders are often dunked in water tanks during fills - could react with even the smallest amount of grease or oil that was present perhaps from an earlier poorly filtered compressor). Few scuba shops do this in house and will send off to the specialist workshop service centre. Since the testing is so frequent, but also labour intensive, being a largely manual individual process, it is viable for a few specialists to exist. It's not uncommon for cylinders to need shotblasting internally to clear corrosion, even externally before a repaint. Many tests fail on the cylinder neck threads which are inevitably strained on each fill and any removal of the valve for servicing.
That’s for the older type of Gaslow cylinders, yes Gaslow have had several hundred cylinders recertified and it’s them who have been told they will require 1500 minimum for another batch to be done , hence why I said it looking doubtful that they will do more .
Interestingly after reading your post we have been doing some further research into this and have asked a few different industry experts about this .
A lot cheaper to pop over to Germany and get them tested & recertified.
I agree but not an option for me at present because we need to stay reasonably close to my elderly and confused mother in law. Circumstances may have changed by the time the cylinders go out of date.
I was just thinking the same when i used dive there was a visual test then a hydrostatic test that basiclly pumped the cylinder to 400bar if it didbt blow put the valve back in away you go
Much higher pressures than LPG but perhaps the difference lies in the contents. When empty the scuba tank contains air whereas the the empty LPG tank contains highly flammable substances. I am guessing that opening and inspecting our LPG bottles first involves removing and disposing of dangerous gases and residues. Still I would hope that someone somewhere in the UK would see some business potential in setting up to do this.
Knowing how the gas cylinders are processed by the company that does the gas cylinders for the big exchange cylinder companies, it’s never going to happen .
1300 miles round trip from here ?
A lot of people will be combining with a holiday, we go to Germany regularly and didn’t know you could get this done until this thread. It needs to be promoted more.1300 miles round trip from here ?
Running a Motorhome that distance unless passing is going to be way more expensive than replacement
Less than 800 for us but we would combine it with a trip so effectively zero.1300 miles round trip from here ?
Running a Motorhome that distance unless passing is going to be way more expensive than replacement
What's the cost of the testing Lenny?
Keep up girl, Bob posted a link to his thread when he got them done. €74.50 in 2020.
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I thought you'd have the up-to-date price Lenny seeing as you're telling us it's so much cheaper than hereKeep up girl, Bob posted a link to his thread when he got them done. €74.50 in 2020.
Refillable gas bottle good for another 10 years. 😎
We decided back in 2007 refillable gas bottles were the way to go, and decided on two 11kg gaslow bottles, but in 2010 Theonlysue Sue got some aluminium ones so I just had to have those being half the weight, so sold the gaslow and got aluminium 11kg from gas it. 🙂 Well 10 years on we...
... as with everything else it might have gone up stupidly or the might have taken umbridge and won't test UK ones now (a la France with doing dog passports!). 
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