No Calor Gas bottles

For safe fill bottles, try here:

https://www.somerset-safefill.co.uk

last time they were supposedly not available in lockdown, got one overnight with a free hand wheel pigtail.  Worth a call.

Filled first time at Morrisons on Cribbs Causeway, Bristol.

There is  garage on the A303:

Stonehenge Filling Station

A303 High St, Winterbourne Stoke SP3 4SZ

69ppl on 21/3/21

Interesting points and tips made here, thanks for input. For ‘armourer’ who asked about where I got the Bailey, not Duncan’s in Wishaw, but Wallace of Kirkcaldy........

Best of luck with the new van, Alastair.  Like many others, now that calorlite bottles are difficult to get, we've recently moved over to Safefill.  Expensive to outlay, but at least we have light bottles which I know we can get refilled locally.

David 

SteveL wrote 'I topped up our Gaslow system yesterday at Morrison’s, which is about the cheapest I’ve found at 57.7p a litre, which equates to £6.78 for six kilos,"

Whilst not wishing to quibble about a pound or two, that is still about £20 per cylinder cheaper than Calor. If you only use a cylinder's worth a year then it's no significant difference other than the weight penalty. It does, however, remove the flexibility of being able to use non EHU locations. During what is anticipated to be a manic season, that may be significant. Refillables and solar are all about independence and flexibility and, when conditions permit, availability of gas "over there".

The figure of 65p came from myLPG and is the average across the country. You would expect to pay more for fuel in the remoter parts of the country.

peedee

In terms of LPG we can expect to pay a premium where there are few LPG fill locations, whether or not the area is remote.

I just hope that the LPG users amongst the 4 million visitors that come to 'remote' Cornwall each year realise!

For the ones who normally would be in France it will be like normal. It was between 0.90 and 0.99€ everywhere there in 2019. Although a lot easier to source. From a personal point of view if it keeps outlets supplying LPG I would not mind a 99p price tag. I was under no illusions that I would ever pay for our Gaslow installation. I wanted it so there would be no more humping of heavy bottles.😀

Sledgehammers and nuts come to mind when I read about gaslow. Some of you seem to use an awful lot of gas.

I travelled for 40 years with two 4.5 kg gas bottles in the front locker - and only seemed to change one every three years. Rather than drive 20 miles each way to refill gaslow at a petrol station I swapped a gas bottle at the village shop. We were very modern 40 years ago - Electric kettle, electric heating and electric lights.  I can’t remember a site without mains hook up in all that time- even though many of them were small out of the way sites.

And isn’t using green electricity from renewable sources much more eco friendly than burning fossil fuel gas?

We certainly use more now we have a MH. Some because we never stopped on non EHU Aires before. Plus the fact if we stop off somewhere on route the gas cuts in to keep the fridge cold. Also as have we have refillable we have done away with the additional clutter of electric kettle, coffee maker and toaster. As I put above the main reason for having it wasn’t cost but to avoid putting my back out again, getting it in and out of the gas locker.