Calor gas lite

Thanks Husky. 

(JVB The calorlite is approx 4.5kg lighter than the standard bottle)

However for me, who does not use a lot of gas, the 3.9kg is similar weight to the calorlite and more compact and therefore easier to handle.

Thanks Husky. 

(JVB The calorlite is approx 4.5kg lighter than the standard bottle)

...Is 4.5kg approx? worth an extra £3 on the price for the same amount of gas we only use a 6kg approx every 15 months

JVB, Me too!   So I wonder if we have become part of the problem..  Modern caravans, and MH's too have become very reliant on EHU's, my van like many others has one of the burners replaced by a hot plate.  We now heat the van by electric and heat the water too the same way. Our useage of gas today is very much reduced from say 10 years ago. That situation is obviously replicated on most other caravas, so I guess that we no longer rate as important customer/users as far as they are concerned.

TF

JVB, Me too!   So I wonder if we have become part of the problem..  Modern caravans, and MH's too have become very reliant on EHU's, my van like many others has one of the burners replaced by a hot plate.  We now heat the van by electric and heat the water too the same way. Our useage of gas today is very much reduced from say 10 years ago. That situation is obviously replicated on most other caravas, so I guess that we no longer rate as important customer/users as far as they are concerned.

TF

..Just so TF and i have as others must have ,noticed that the price of LPG did not come down when the price of oil plummeted and LPG is a side product of oil ?

it certainly appeared to me that they were profiteering after the reduction in the price of oil. So any loyalty went out the window.

TF

Another one running on very little gas. With an electric ring in the hob and a microwave we normally use the gas only for the odd meal in the oven and to help with the heating when it is very cold. The bottles now last almost indefinitely so with others in a similar position the sale of gas to caravan owners must be very low these days compared with the past. The saving grace for Calor is probably the trend towards patio heaters and gas barbeques though where weight is often less of an issue. You do still see afair number of gas bottles being exchanged on dites though.

I run my Heating in the house on LPG via Calor (at the moment)  and they recently quoted my new price as 49p per litre fixed or 52 variable.  I did some research and got a reduced price to switch - Calor came back with an offer of 30p a litre fixed for 12 months - disgusting or not?  I won't be using Calor again unless it lines my pocket! 

Sorry I know this is a bit off topic but Calor are not decent traders in my opinion. 

We have a lite and because of the reasons mentioned before by others struggle to use a bottle a year which at under £25 is less than fifty pence a week so quite happy with it. 

Here's one using more gas !! Safefill cylinders using gas at about 75% less than Calor prices and no EHU to pay for as the sun powers everything else. It really is about time that they replaced all the steel cylinders with the new lightweight materials available and turn the former into plough shears!! The caravan industry, although painfully slow to catch up with new ideas and inventions are definitely ready for the new technology in cylinders- I have 3 and not a metal one in sight.

If we're to use Calorlite then this time of year I would be getting through most of one per weekend not I think economical. So safefill for me as well.

The advantage is better heating on gas equals toasty warm in even the coldest conditions. 

But if you are in the other camp then you simply won't get the payback from buying a safefill.  On the other hand you aren't using your van to its full potential.