Safefill - Refillable Gas Cylinders

tadhatter replied on 18/06/2019 13:16

Posted on 18/06/2019 13:16

Last summer, as part of my ambition to do far more off-grid touring, I thought I'd invest* in Safefill. Perhaps my alarm belles should have been ringing when the place I went to go to purchase a canister was Brayford Leicsure and they only had one size available - the medium sized one - and lots of them! But nonetheless I coughed up my circa £160 for it and have them fill it up and carried on smug in the knowledge that I would soon be quids in in longer term savings.

However, for various personal reasons we haven't been able to get out in the caravan anything like as much as we had hoped since then - partly due to a job change and house move - we've only just got round to needing to re-fill it. I duly looked on Safefill's website to find stockists and discovered that there was only one in about a 10 mile radius. That would be ok if this garage would actaully allow me to refill it. Notices on their lpg pumps said that individual gas canisters were not be refilled here and before I even checked at the kiosk a forceful looking lady shouted at me saying that I couldn't fill that thing here!  However, after discussion she told me where, locally, I could get it sorted. I thanked her and went on to that location. Unfortunately she clearly mistook Safefill with standard Calor gas. I tried to call Safefill at this point only to hear that I couldn't leave a message as the mailbox was full! 

I proceeded to look for an alternative website to see where LPG was stocked and then proceeded to a couple of other locations, one which didn't actaully exist anynore and another also refused to let me fill my Safefill container. Having wasted 2 hours on a wild goose chase I decided to head home as I had work to do rather annoyed and frustrated.

So, can anyone else tell me if they'ved had simialr unhelpful experiences with Safefill or, more helpfully, let me know somewhere where I can get my cylinder refilled in the Beds/Herts/Bucks area.

Very much lool forward to hearing responses.

Cheers, 

Tim.

*for investment read expensive wasted of money!

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Merve replied on 26/06/2019 13:16

Posted on 26/06/2019 07:59 by Johnny57

Hi Maybe of interest
I have now created a spreadsheet & map to list LPG stations that allow filling of refillable bottles. Hopefully any stations that have been mentioned on this discussion and on the other LPG one are now on there!.
Will be great if anyone can part with their knowledge regarding the filling stations that have filled bottles etc if they would post them on the new discussion or there is a form which can be filled in.
Link to Disscussion

Posted on 26/06/2019 13:16

Where would we be without you John? Thanks for all you hard work mate. 

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Rocky 2 buckets replied on 26/06/2019 13:38

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Posted on 26/06/2019 13:38

The post was excellent👍🏻. Merve could you reduce it to a list of bullet points for the hard of concentrating👍🏻😂

mickysf replied on 26/06/2019 13:53

Posted on 26/06/2019 13:53

Autogas is quite a bit cleaner than the liquid alternatives and as a vehicle fuel its demise was overtly planned and political. I really don't understand the reasons for this. Why isn't it actively encouraged, particularly for secondhand conversions, I don't know. That would assist us leisure users of refillable tanks and cylinders find more outlets if demand increased.

i guess all eggs went in the electric basket!

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Posted on 26/06/2019 13:53 by mickysf

Autogas is quite a bit cleaner than the liquid alternatives and as a vehicle fuel its demise was overtly planned and political. I really don't understand the reasons for this. Why isn't it actively encouraged, particularly for secondhand conversions, I don't know. That would assist us leisure users of refillable tanks and cylinders find more outlets if demand increased.

i guess all eggs went in the electric basket!

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Rocky 2 buckets replied on 26/06/2019 16:10

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