Returning calor bottle palavar

I’ve been looking out for a 6kg Calor propane bottle with or without gas over the last few weeks. Not that many on offer on Gumtree, Facebook or EBay and none within 100 miles of me 😢.
Last week an empty 6kg Calor propane bottle went on EBay for £67 in Bolton. The going rate at present is around the £40 mark 😳.
 
At that sort of price, the couple I kept back as spares for my BBQ will be for sale shortly. A half full 6kg propane and empty 7kg butane, either can be swapped for a new propane (or butane)
 
I read a week or so ago that there was a huge shortage of gas bottles.
The increase in caravan and motorhome sales plus many more camping breaks have led to Calor running very short of bottles.
Might be worth the OP starting an auction.

Richard.
 
Trip to local tip will find loads for free. Sometimes they are still full

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most tips now will not let you take anything out as they are now not tips but recyling centers
i dont know which crusher you found who would crush gas cylinder as most yards will not take them
 
Simon Meadwell said:
Trip to local tip will find loads for free. Sometimes they are still full
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That's what I thought at my local tip.
Had a load of rubbish to get rid of so down to the tip.
I intensionally looked for gas bottles when there.

Must have been a hundred assorted but mostly calor Butane in a locked cage in one corner......obviously not for sale.
 
DavieA said:
I’ve been looking out for a 6kg Calor propane bottle with or without gas over the last few weeks. Not that many on offer on Gumtree, Facebook or EBay and none within 100 miles of me 😢.
Last week an empty 6kg Calor propane bottle went on EBay for £67 in Bolton. The going rate at present is around the £40 mark 😳.
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Just renewed both my 6kg near Macclesfield said they had about 20 left that was last Monday macc calor gas 01625 502121.
 
pappajohn said:
That's what I thought at my local tip.
Had a load of rubbish to get rid of so down to the tip.
I intensionally looked for gas bottles when there.

Must have been a hundred assorted but mostly calor Butane in a locked cage in one corner......obviously not for sale.
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calor cylinders remain expressly the property of calor ltd You only pay to rent the use of them

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Clarky said:
I read a week or so ago that there was a huge shortage of gas bottles.
The increase in caravan and motorhome sales plus many more camping breaks have led to Calor running very short of bottles.
Might be worth the OP starting an auction.

Richard.
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I took it back to the main calor centre in the end and got my £29 back but yes, might have got more on ebay!
 
TheBig1 said:
calor cylinders remain expressly the property of calor ltd You only pay to rent the use of them
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Agreed, but in my opinion Calor couldn't give a monkeys what you do with them.... Sell them, dump them, turn them into log burners.
They already recooped the manufacturing cost of the bottle through the initial rental fee and future overpriced refill costs.
 
We put 3 on EBay and sold them within minutes - £20 each
 
I had two over after fitting gasit to the van, they had been standing around for a couple of years, still looked good. I read that there was a shortage so put them on an auction site 3/4 weeks ago and got £35 each for them.
 
Anyone near Harrogate or heading up for the show, we have a full 13kg bottle in the garage, no reasonable offer refused.

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Back to the tip . Our tip stores them in unlocked cages. Covertly help yourself dont ask. Probably theft but who owns the bottles ?
 
Our local tip won't gift, sell or take beer tokens for bottles......
Having read here the prices on Calor bottles empty, I think I will let mine go....I've just gone Safefill so I've a full Calor 6kg and one with about 10% in it so I might as well recoup some cash.
When I filled the Safefill bottles at Flogas the nice chap there was shortage of cylinders for them and Calor....they are putting it down to a lot of gas bbq's purchased during lockdown and they are now not expecting them back in for refill until 2022/23....
 
Just sold two 6kg calor for £50 on FB marketplace, buyer came from Portsmouth area to us in Southampton. One bottle full one empty. Could have sold them a dozen times.
 
I didn't realise until a couple of weeks ago you couldn't swap a private firm's bottle for a Calor one. Ran out of gas on a trip and we couldn't get a swap. On return the company we got if from no longer do 6.8kg so we have to wait a few days for it to be refilled (bottle is only 2 years old). By the way, a brew made with microwaved water tastes awful!
 
I used to carry one calor and one local company bottle. Now got refillables much easier.

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Pablo19 said:
I took it back to the main calor centre in the end and got my £29 back but yes, might have got more on ebay!
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They said if I didn’t have the original receipt they wouldn’t give me a penny but would very kindly come and collect it for free. 🤣🤣🤣
 
sgl5gjr said:
Our local tip won't gift, sell or take beer tokens for bottles......
Having read here the prices on Calor bottles empty, I think I will let mine go....I've just gone Safefill so I've a full Calor 6kg and one with about 10% in it so I might as well recoup some cash.
When I filled the Safefill bottles at Flogas the nice chap there was shortage of cylinders for them and Calor....they are putting it down to a lot of gas bbq's purchased during lockdown and they are now not expecting them back in for refill until 2022/23....
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Flogas will refill Safefill? I have a spare flogas bottle are they the same as Calor I.e. swapable or refillable? I also have a spare calor blue bottle. I wanted a safefill bottle but have heard refill places are scarce? If flogas refill safefill my problem is solved
 
Picked up my non Calor gas bottle refill yesterday, left them with a 6.8kg bottle and came back with a 7.48kg for £20. A bit more gas for the same price, happy days. Should last me this year for staycations but I'll get a Calor before we set off for mainland Europe.
 
pappajohn said:
That's what I thought at my local tip.
Had a load of rubbish to get rid of so down to the tip.
I intensionally looked for gas bottles when there.

Must have been a hundred assorted but mostly calor Butane in a locked cage in one corner......obviously not for sale.ay not be for sale officially, but if you have a quiet word nwithbthe right person and some cash you may be lucky, it how we got ours.
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Hammie said:
Flogas will refill Safefill? I have a spare flogas bottle are they the same as Calor I.e. swapable or refillable? I also have a spare calor blue bottle. I wanted a safefill bottle but have heard refill places are scarce? If flogas refill safefill my problem is solved
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Brains said:
A few years ago our local Scout Group tried to reclaim the money on about 15 Calor bottles of various sizes, they still had the original receipt from the 1970's, although the original bottles had been swapped many times.
(Being a Scout Group, they can go through several 15kg bottles in a single week of camping)

No one would give them the money back, so eventually they took the lot to to the local tip and ensured that they all went into the crusher.

15 perfectly good bottles, some only months old, recycled for free just for the metal.

Calor will not give you your deposit back, despite what they promise.
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They won't be crushing gas bottles at the tip , I get bollocked if I throw the wrong plastic in the hard plastic skip

It'll have gone like this , yeah yeah they'll get crushed when the tip closes , just leave them there

The tips are all franchises and they sell by tender the rights to anything that comes into the tip , the stuff then gets re sold

I know a guy that does it , what gets thrown away, especially when a family is clearing out a house to put on the market is amazing .
 
Wack said:
It'll have gone like this , yeah yeah they'll get crushed when the tip closes , just leave them there

The tips are all franchises and they sell by tender the rights to anything that comes into the tip , the stuff then gets re sold
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According to the Calor delivery driver who delivered our forklift gas bottles the tip is not permitted to crush or sell the bottles as they are owned by Calor (not the user who just rents them) and Calor regularly collects them from the tip.
 

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