How to thrive on a non EHU site .

Older Safefill might be blue - but definitely not paley green!  I would doubt the Safefill name could have faded either. 

Can't say fairer than that Pippah. I'm not sure I would do any repairs to my gas system either - like DD, it would all depend on what it was and if I felt that I was confident and competent. Sometimes you don't get a second chance with gas. 

No that sounds like a gaslight originally sold by BP

safefill were originally Red, then blue, now red top with a white base.  The type of bottle is unimportant.  The cleaver bit is the valve which has an overfill cutoff built in. 

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I fixed one of the "leaks" myself - with a spanner - why didn't they think of that?  DD if I were younger I would educate myself and fix it.  I trust me!  At least I have found a mobile servicer and a local gas man to put my trust in.

Had my first experience of off grid last week at Thirsk race course, as some members may know when the races are on  all units are moved to the rally field which have no electric or toilets. 

I really enjoyed the experience of using the van , a Bailey Unicorn Vigo series 3 , to its full potential. The fridge and hot water worked a treat off gas and the solar panel appeared to look after everything else. It was the first time the toilet had been used for anything other than liquids , we always use site facilities.. it was nice not to have to go out in all weathers to the toilet block.

i will definately be using more sites without EHU in future and am now seriously considering the safefill route as I suspect we used a lot of gas in a 24 hr period so eventually safefill would pay for itself. 

France for us next week so I have had to purchase a full gas bottle and exhanged the old one with 1kg of gas left in it so that's a waste but nothing we can do. 

change your hose (or add an adaptor) and just use a french bottle....even french gas can be used here when you come home....

i have one refillable (gaslow 11kg) and a second 'slot' with a 'butane' hose that fits a french bottle and a Spanish 'jumbo' adaptor should we ever need a spanish bottle.

the second bottle 'slot' is for emergencies as we can usually manage with the Gaslow.

so glad you had a great time off gridding.....have a look at the C&CC temporary holiday sites (THS) program.....no booking, pay on departure, £8-12 a night in some lovley town and countryside settings.

Heretical question coming up.... Lots of talk here of the terrible and expensive waste incurred by returning unused gas to the dealer.
We've only just had a trial EHU-free w/e so far but plan longer sessions to come, and we haven't yet bought Safefill, but it's definitely on the cards. Meanwhile we have two LPG cylinders, a larger and a smaller. When one runs out, we switch to the the other and replace the dead one. OK, we're still on the expensive gas, and that is, as I said, on course to change, but meanwhile it means we don't waste that last bit of gas - it's surprising how long we've cooked on an apparently empty cylinder!

I sort of assumed this was what you all did when you didn't have Safefill. Or are there deep philosophical reasons why we shouldn't work this way? We're new to caravans but have played the same game with the old blue gaz bottles with our tent camping for years.

I've been thinking that when we do get a Safefill I'll still keep on the smaller Calor cylinder, just as an emergency spare.

Meanwhile I'm looking forward to learning more on this thread. I'd really like the CMC to have a whole new section on this forum devoted to off-grid, rather than generalised "ways to save money" but that's probably hoping too much!

 

possibly nose weight might cause some caravanners to ne able to carry one cylinder only?

also, one large one is much cheaper to buy and refill tha. two small ones...

Well done David- you see, we are not that weird on here are we?😂😂. With a Safefill you'll never give gas back - you just top up and if you are thinking of more non EHU experience then a Safefill will be an excellent investment. I'm sure the others will let me express this-  We all wish you happy non EHUing in the future.