No Calor Gas bottles

Unless you are seriously going off grid or using sites with no EHU then i wouid suggest that gas is becoming less of a requirement.

Even if we didn’t use it off grid, Calor would work out expensive in our MH. The tall fridge freezer gobbles it, even with just stops to visit things and Supermarket shopping. Conversely 6 kg lasted ages in our caravan, which was always on EHU, despite using the oven and a gas BBQ a lot.

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I would concur about the gas consumption of these big fridge/feezers. The consumption does seem a bit disproportionate for their size. Roughly 40% bigger but probably at least double the gas consumption. When I had a caravan, gas consumption was negligible but off-grid with the motorhome, even discounting heating, it does seemed to have jumped somewhat.

I'm a long way from you in Cheshire however I've got an empty cylinder you could have if you fancy a drive or organise a courier

Calor Gas bottles do occasionally come up on EBay  so worth keeping an eye on out. The other day there as an empty 6kg Propane for £7 (now over £10 )  but a very good price.  They are always collect in person.

Picked one up at local tip for a fiver. 

Looks like obtaining Calor gas suitable for caravans etc for the coming season is going to be very difficult, our local outlets have not had a delivery for over 2 months now. There are some 6kg LPG bottles for sale on ebay but most are buyer collect and some are £50 or more, and most seem to be in the Midlands area. 

Only need to replace an empty 4.5kg butane, but these are like gold dust to find. Local suppliers are also not signing up any new contracts so you have to have a bottle to return and it has to be the same as the full one you take away, if you can find one.

Probably got enough for now as can switch to Repsol whilst in Spain.

Not a big user of gas, BBQ mainly, and sometimes gas hob on cooker, but going to invest in a single electric hob , but was just wondering if folks were having similar issues still in their area.

Towed daughter’s caravan on to seasonal pitch North Yorkshire at the weekend, and I was talking to warden (commercial site) about availability of Calor gas. He said he was getting a delivery this week ready for opening tomorrow. Had plenty including Calor lights, but was only allowed to exchange like for like and no new contracts.

"Tall fridge/freezers eat gas at an alarming rate"....or similar...

been in Spain since end of Jan and am not using electricity....(apart from travel kettle....solar taking care of all 12v services plus Ebike battery charging) so have a pretty good idea now about bottle duration.

I carry an 11kg Gaslow and an 11kg Repsol which I thought was empty from the last trip. Anyway, I took the Repsol bottle out of the van to exchange it and it felt very heavy to me, so I just put it back and started using it....it lasted two weeks, for fridge, hob, oven and odd bit of background heat as the evenings were a bit chilly back then.

I changed it on 14th Feb and this one ran for bang on three weeks, with a tad less heating as it's a bit less cold in the evenings.

I don't know how this compares with the above posters' experiences but at €22 a bottle it's costing me a euro a day...

now, this price is close to twice what it was two years ago (€13) where using gas was a no brainier...but the price increase made me think a bit about whether it has closed the gap.

electric here is metered at €0.40 a kWh, so I could have 2.5kwh to spend on the fridge....however, the hob and heating would need to come out of this....

I don't have a mains electric consumption figure, however I found this on the Dometic website...

ca. 3.9 KWh / 460 g for electric and gas (per day?)

I Reckon I'm using 523 g per day incl hob and a bit of heating so, about right?

if I switch to mains, using the above figure, 3.9 kWh x €0.40, it would cost €1.56 a day for the fridge alone, plus gas for the hob plus either gas or mains for heat.

looks like electric is 50% more expensive plus the cost of the cooking and heating, so perhaps twice the cost, at €2 a day, for all services.

not only that, the heating works far better on gas than electric...😉

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