How much do you pay for your gas ?

Fysherman- so Calor have been ripping us off for years then?? I damn well knew it!!!

The economics of maintaining, distributing and servicing retailers selling small numbers of cylinders is far different from sending a  bulk tanker to a few stations buying in bulk and selling from their tanks in larger quantities. I am not saying Calor are not making good money on their cylinders but these are always going to be far more expensive than refilling your own.

If you look upCalors bulk supply prices then you will find them far more comparable with Safefill.

I have a 10 kg Safefill which ran my fridge, cooking etc for over 3 weeks and cost £7.20 to refill as it was not quite empty. LPG is costing about 57p per litre or £1.14 per kg. The equivalent gas in Calorlite is about £3.42 per kg. Because I was not using an EHU I also saved £4.40 on site fees per night. The best bit though was that we could pitch near the beach as we did not need to be wired to an EHU.

We moved from 2 calorlites (no initial bottle costs)  to a 2 x 6kg Gaslow system about 4 years back, not as much for the savings but to be able to refill on our 2-3 month trips abroad.  This then allows us not to worry about using gas on sites where EHU is metered, so a good saving there.

Plus of course, the LPG is generally cheaper in much of Europe than in UK.  Best we found recently was 32ppl in Belgium.

Kjell, at those prices its even more of a done deal....

ok, those that use no gas, have no gas costs to save, but not everyone has ehu all the time, rallies, THS, some CL/CS sites.

as you say, on sites with metered leccy, cheap gas is king.

I would find a 6kg too awkward to handle, I don't use much gas but normally carry two 3.9kg calor bottles as I need the noseweight. Cost about £16 to fill 

Crikey  Is that each bottle ET or for  both...

Each Bottle Brian. Usual cost on CC sites. It does not concern me as I use so little gas even though I am away for 120+ nights of the year. A bigger size bottle would be cheaper but with my arthritis in the spine they would be very awkward to manhandle in whilst bending into a front locker.

Just out of interest, these cylinders need to be periodically tested, who pays for that, at that time the valve taken out is replaced, who pays for that and where / who does it or will after time will you continue to use an untested unsafe cylinder. The valve assembly is similar to that of a toilet cistern the float rises  and falls as cylinder is filled or emptied, with that in mind and the gunge or residual heavy ends  sometimes in cylinders that valve gets clogged or it fails or worse allows the cylinder to be overfilled. Just a few points that probably need to be taken in consideration before purchase ?

The periodic test for these cylinders is Ten years. As my payback time is less than two years, I think I could afford to buy a new one after nine years if need be.This extra lease of life would indeed take me to close on 90years of age, don't think I'll be worrying much then....

Briantimber to have a payback of less then 2 years, you must do a lot of caravaning off grid as they say, 

Keanergas, we use a lot of CLs, many don't have 16amp supply, so to ease my load and prevent tripping out  we use gas for water heating and fridge, especially on arrival. We also find that temperature of water and fridge is more controllable using gas and as its so cheap, we don't mind. We have been on sites that have electricity metered, so we use gas more .....