safefill, yes or no?

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Yesterday I altered the regulator in the gas locker with the intention of changing from 6kg Calor to 10kg Flo Gas lights, but when I went to buy the cyl I found it has a BBQ gas outlet so will need a new connector and hose. I've added up the cost to change 2 bottles and the hose etc it's about £185. So now I'm thinking about safefill instead. The 10kg cyl is about £210 but do I need a filling connector as well? also I'm in Southampton and safefill only list 1 filling station which is BP and I thought they are withdrawing LPG from their forecourts. Does anyone in this area have safefill? where do you fill it?
 
The Ex-Gasman said:
Yesterday I altered the regulator in the gas locker with the intention of changing from 6kg Calor to 10kg Flo Gas lights, but when I went to buy the cyl I found it has a BBQ gas outlet so will need a new connector and hose. I've added up the cost to change 2 bottles and the hose etc it's about £185. So now I'm thinking about safefill instead. The 10kg cyl is about £210 but do I need a filling connector as well? also I'm in Southampton and safefill only list 1 filling station which is BP and I thought they are withdrawing LPG from their forecourts. Does anyone in this area have safefill? where do you fill it?
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I use 2 X 10kg safefill. Lucky for me I have several places within a few miles 👍 as mentioned you don't need a fill point as the fill connection goes straight onto the bottle.
There are several apps like mylpg.eu and others. Download and check locations in your area, the safefill list is never up to date. I have seen a few taxi companies who now have their own tanks and allow public to fill.

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When we bought our van from Southdowns, we went around the corner to fill up at Hattons but I see no mention of their pump on their website. Might be worth giving Southdowns a call to see where they go.
 
I think a refillable gas cyl is one of our best purchases but it will depend how extensive the network of pumps remains
 
Can you fill these in any autogas filling station? Forgive my lack of knowledge on this, as have always been a low gas user in the caravan, but planning to go off grid more in my MH
I am thinking of getting a refillable cylinder, but do you need to buy any special filling adaptors for the UK?
My nearest filling point is the local Calor agent so not sure if they will fill Safefil?
I have worked with Gasit a few years ago and I know they supply the underslung tanks to Elddis and possibly Auto Sleepers or used to
 
Ianbenny said:
Can you fill these in any autogas filling station? Forgive my lack of knowledge on this, as have always been a low gas user in the caravan, but planning to go off grid more in my MH
I am thinking of getting a refillable cylinder, but do you need to buy any special filling adaptors for the UK?
My nearest filling point is the local Calor agent so not sure if they will fill Safefil?
I have worked with Gasit a few years ago and I know they supply the underslung tanks to Elddis and possibly Auto Sleepers or used to
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Safefill have a standard UK filling connection.
We take ours to a local LPG outlet in Glasgow who were considering stopping selling but are now over the moon they kept going as a huge amount of taxis (new LEZ) are now running on LPG.
You can also get adaptors for Continental filling connections.

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The Ex-Gasman said:
Yesterday I altered the regulator in the gas locker with the intention of changing from 6kg Calor to 10kg Flo Gas lights, but when I went to buy the cyl I found it has a BBQ gas outlet so will need a new connector and hose. I've added up the cost to change 2 bottles and the hose etc it's about £185. So now I'm thinking about safefill instead. The 10kg cyl is about £210 but do I need a filling connector as well? also I'm in Southampton and safefill only list 1 filling station which is BP and I thought they are withdrawing LPG from their forecourts. Does anyone in this area have safefill? where do you fill it?
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Hi
I'm picking up on your post as I'm looking into my Gas options for France/Spain. I don't want to go down the Gaslow route and then came across the Safefill option BUT there doesn't appear to be much "talk" about it particularly for Europe. To be honest I didn't know of the product until 30 mins ago, not really found much first hand usage knowledge on Net and then came across your "Safefill, yes or no?" which is exactly my question! So, accepting it is a couple of hundred quid as opposed to significantly more for Gaslow, have you gone for Safefill? How does it work? Can you fill a bottle from any LPG garage forecourt with an appropriate adapter or are there restrictions because the bottles are portable and not a fitted installation. What's the situation in Europe?
I'm just a bit suspicious of the concept because it doesn't appear to be in great use which begs the question Why?!
I look forward to yours or anyone else's contribution.
Many thanks
Trevor
 
Divertrev said:
Hi
I'm picking up on your post as I'm looking into my Gas options for France/Spain. I don't want to go down the Gaslow route and then came across the Safefill option BUT there doesn't appear to be much "talk" about it particularly for Europe. To be honest I didn't know of the product until 30 mins ago, not really found much first hand usage knowledge on Net and then came across your "Safefill, yes or no?" which is exactly my question! So, accepting it is a couple of hundred quid as opposed to significantly more for Gaslow, have you gone for Safefill? How does it work? Can you fill a bottle from any LPG garage forecourt with an appropriate adapter or are there restrictions because the bottles are portable and not a fitted installation. What's the situation in Europe?
I'm just a bit suspicious of the concept because it doesn't appear to be in great use which begs the question Why?!
I look forward to yours or anyone else's contribution.
Many thanks
Trevor
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Sorry I can't help, I didn't get one in the end. That's only because of the lack of filling stations near me, I think it's a good option and I haven't ruled it out for the future, as far as I know filling is not a problem here or abroad.
 
The Ex-Gasman said:
Sorry I can't help, I didn't get one in the end. That's only because of the lack of filling stations near me, I think it's a good option and I haven't ruled it out for the future, as far as I know filling is not a problem here or abroad.
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What's wrong with a gasit bottle, it would fit straight in?
 
I've used Safefill for over 10 years. I have one Safefill bottle in a twin bottle system, which I use most of the time. I use a standard non-refillable cylinder (Flogas/ Calor) just for emergencies (hardly used) as the other bottle. It suits me well, as I can just take it out and fill it up at local garages in the car, and sometimes at filling stations (when the motorhome does not fit in next to the LPG pump). I have found it better and cheaper than a permanent refillable system with external filler for the above reasons.

The only disadvantage is the reduced number of LPG garage pumps, we've only got two now in the whole of Suffolk (Morrisons and Framlingham). However, it does seem as though other places are opening up, like Flogas depots and leisure service dealers ...

You can usually refill them abroad as well, with the appropriate connectors, so it saves on modifying your gas system to accept European Cylinders. Some European LPG outlets are fussy, as they think you are refilling a normal cylinder without the 80% overfill protection.

Cheers
 
I've got a couple of Safefills. Somer places are a bit iffy about filling. There is also a GasBank cylinder which is the same as a Safefill but with a separate filling connection so you can have a remote fill point.

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Bought one yesterday in the end - 7.5kg size. £199 . My local calor agent will fill it 2 miles away so need to pop down.
The instructions say fill to 10 litres the first time
I am going to do what c brookson does and use the safefil for general gas and keep the calor as a spare.
Yesterday at the dealers there were 3 people looking for 6kg Calor bottles without sucess.
 
Well looks like I was wrong. My local Calor supplier who said they fill safefil cylinders 2 weeks ago now state they cant due to their insurance.
I may take the bottle back as it may be a hard task to get it filled locally.
 
We have only one supplier of LPG on the IOW, Calor. They refused to fill a Safefill bottle, but quite happy to fill Gasit/Gaslow.
 
Ianbenny said:
Well looks like I was wrong. My local Calor supplier who said they fill safefil cylinders 2 weeks ago now state they cant due to their insurance.
I may take the bottle back as it may be a hard task to get it filled locally.
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It's in their contract with calor I believe that cannot fill bottles only vehicles
 
Much the same as a mobile phone when they first became the norm, go into the store they would ask for your home postcode for reception. Why I'm never there that's why a want a mobile phone
I never fuel locally as its 10p a ltr dearer soi fuel when I pass a cheap garage and just kee topping up
I'm going to do the same with gas
 
How do you.manage with the safefill rather than the fixed units such as gaslow or gasit in garages?
I dont want to get a fixed unit to see how much gas we get through this year.
Always had a caravan so went on hook up
 

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