Safefill 10Kg

Good choice, have had a Safefill cylinder (8.6kg/15ltrs) for a few years now using cheap gas, cost of cylinder is now paid for and as you say, just top it up and always go off will a full cylinder and with a 150w solar panal no need for EHU.

We filled ours up the other weekend at a cost of £8 (it was empty as we had been unprepared and ran out!!).  We have the middle sized bottle, I think this may be 10kg but cannot remember.

It looks like you've calculated gaslight using the 5kg cylinders. There's also a 10kg (which has the same dimensions as the 10kg safefill) which should be a maximum of £33 to refill and generally less. 

Gaslight is definitely more expensive than calorlite but I'm surprised it's so much more.

If I hadn't been given two calorlites when I bought my van I'd have bought safefill but the numbers don't stack up for us. 

To replace two 6kg (gas) steel bottles, I rented a 10kg (gas) Gaslight from Hedon hire near me recently at £51 bottle hire and gas, future refills were quoted at £24 something. so for 30kg of gas usage it will work out at £99 something. Only just fits into my front locker mind.

You did well there Dave. Homebase shows the price of rental plus gas at £72.99 and refills at £32.99 but it's always included in their discount weekends so it can be cheaper.  

30kg of gaslight in the 10kg cylinders at homebase price would be £139 and there's a refund possible. This is why safefill doesn't stack up for me as I was given an empty gaslight cylinder and don't use as much gas as others. 

The situation is constantly under review 

If we used more gas we would splash out on safe fill but we use less than one calor light a year, only use gas for the cooker and hob, I think the payback for us would be over 10 years!! so unless our vanning changes we will stick with the calor lights

I've used 2 calorlite in 10 years. They were both within the recall scheme so I have had both of them exchanged  for free. Hopefully that's my gas sorted until 2026.

If you are new to caravaning and need to buy gas cylinders then that is the ideal point at which to invest in Safefill etc. Even though I have 2 Calorlite it has still paid me to move to Safefill as I use a lot of CLs without EHUs. However if like Rangeroverman using EHUs then the gas consumption will be low and savings by switching from an existing Calor etc would be harder to justify.

Although we are not high gas users at only 2 - 3 bottles a year, at least we can stick up a finger at Calor Gas's racketering charges.  The last 6kg Calorlite we refilled cost us £28.99.  For that price I can fill our 10kg bottle almost three times from empty!  Obviously if you only use one bottle of gas a year probably not worth it!

The other advantage of refillables is that you only need to carry one cylinder and don't run at inconvenient times as you can refill at anytime without having to run the gas low.