Yeah they refused me....but said it was even for all motorhome installations due to a standard gas bottle with eBay adapter incident.... The filled my safefill when I went there to be fair. I use Morrisons with no problems now
I am full-time and have 2 x 11kg Gaslow cylinders, (about 41 ltrs) if you are only using gas for cooking then your gas will last months, I used 15 ltrs between the end of July and the middle of October, if you are using it for heating and hot water as well then you may only get a couple of weeks depending on the size of your van how hot you keep it etc.
Would an underslung tank be a cheaper option?Wish I could, and that was my plan when back in the Uk during the summer.
Here it has to be done by a certified installer and then inspected afterwards. The big cost is that you have to reinforce the gas locker and have mounting points to secure the bottles mounted to the chassis so it does become quite a job. It’s just one of those peculiar local laws that you can’t avoid, although a direct fill bottle does get round it
I had wondered why I had never seen refillable LPG installations on vans here and now I know why as the payback would be about 50yrsshame really as for me it’s equally about the convenience as much as the cost saving.
Read back, he's in France not the UK.
Actually I think the OP is in Switzerland, hence the rules and consequential cost of fitting cylinders.
I wouldn’t want to try and sell LPG cylinders as cheaply as Calor do
So how come all the alternatives seem about half the price give or take?I wouldn’t want to try and sell LPG cylinders as cheaply as Calor do
The costs involved are enormous and the LPG is a tiny part of that .
Imagine the logistics involved in stocking what is essentially a very seasonal product in the leisure market.
You have Calor themselves then very often a distributor and then the thousands of small retailers who all need a profit.
Can’t see any profiteering going on myself.
I have not seen any LPG stockists selling cylinder refills at half the price of Calor .
That made me look at it in a different light, all too easy just to compare the cost of the gas,I wouldn’t want to try and sell LPG cylinders as cheaply as Calor do
The costs involved are enormous and the LPG is a tiny part of that .
Imagine the logistics involved in stocking what is essentially a very seasonal product in the leisure market.
You have Calor themselves then very often a distributor and then the thousands of small retailers who all need a profit.
Can’t see any profiteering going on myself.
when I was a moho newbie some 8 years ago I went to a main Calor depot a couple of times and paid a small fortune (plus carp customer service, always made to wait to get served until their phone stopped ringing!).. Somebody on one of the other forums tipped me off about alternative suppliers and I found my local DIY shop sold Flogas much cheaper. The last big one from them cost about 30 quid. As we go abroad a lot my second bottle is a big beige one from Intermarche which I swapped a couple of days ago for 25 quid. How much is Calor now? a quick search looks like close to 50 quid.
Tiny Gaslow system
Couple of projects completed this week … I replaced the 6Kg gas bottles, which full, weigh about 17 Kg each, with two refillable Gaslow 2.7Kg bottles which full, weigh about 9 Kg each.. Giving a useful weight saving around 15kg, The only gas consumption in the van is the two burner hob and the...www.motorhomefun.co.uk
You can’t really compare European prices to ours , they use bottled gas as a mainstream domestic product, prices in Spain etc are fixed by the government.
that's why I gave the Flogas price first. I realise it's not exactly half, but it's a large percentage cheaper for no apparent reason except paying for the Calor name. I included the French price as just another example of 'rip-off Britain' as the media frequently like to call it. I'm just grateful that when I go to France 3 or 4 times a year my costs are lower than here.You can’t really compare European prices to ours , they use bottled gas as a mainstream domestic product, prices in Spain etc are fixed by the government.
French LPG might be cheaper but you definitely wouldn’t want to pay their taxes and they have a higher crime rate than the U.K. too
Unfortuinately not for the Op as the UK is probably one of the only countries left where they allow anyone regardless of ability, to do anything to motorised vehicles without needing certification.
same problem or possibly even worse ,which it would be here. Everything here has to be supplied with a homologation certificate & then has to be installed by whoever holds the required licence to install & can supply the installation certificate , regardless of the fact that they might be a complete twat . With both pieces of paper you can then get it added top the log book ,if it wasn't included in the installation price. there are very few things that do not require it.
Yes but Only for the one type of 12,5 kg cylinder from both repsol & cepsa. The identical 12,5kg "lightweight" cylinders the companies convinced gov.es that they were completely different & so are allowed to charge far more for the same quantity in a different cylinder.
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