Safefill 10Kg

I could swear I have seen cages of Calor cylinders on  the three sites I have visited over the past 25 yrs! So you have to leave the site and look elsewhere for an exchange cylinder? Not very convenient that! 

Hillclimb, good post proving that once you have bought your cylinder and assuming that you use enough gas to justify the purchase, Safefill is massively cheaper and the more you use it, the cheaper it is. 

As far as I am aware it is the wardens that sell the gas. On the other hand most users of CC sites use EHU and why would they want refllables in general?

I am sure you are technically right that the wardens "sell" Calor, but it must be a moot point in that surely the club provide all the storage infrastructure, most likely the insurance and own the land and I have never seen other brands on offer?

Re take up of refillables it is hard to visulise many who take EHU routinely or exclusively on club or any sites are into this market, so IMO the numbers needing LPG dispensing must be quite small?

I can see the drift to MHs and their seeming attraction to use anything but campsites will grow the leisure take up of LPG fuel pumps so that might help preserve LPG facilities in the face of declining automotive use. Many of these I suspect though will be fixed or semi fixed systems as they need to go to the pumps to transport the storage vessel anyway, therefore that does not really help the portable market. Sadly though I feel the leisure market take up is too small to replicate the loss of the automotive use to an extent not large enough to support the whole costings of having LPG on forecourts. Here locally they are already disappearing.

Merve, don't fly off in a tisy  I am not at all negative about Safefill, just being realistic and putting counter arguments into the "discussion", after all that is what this forum is about. For us massive users of gas one would be brilliant if it could be reliably filled locally.

Just had to exchange our calor lite 6kg it has only lasted 2yrs and 5month with about 160/170 ñights per year away and it is now £27.50  

I don't want to upset you but I topped up my Safefill with 6Kg on the way back from my last trip for £7.36, so a saving of £20.

I doubt he will feel too cheated if he does his sums on the write off costs of him changing to a Safefill, where he uses, six kgs of propane in two and a half years.

Thats  in the Safefill's life of ten years,  10/ 2.42 x 6 = 24.8 kgs of propane; So the useful life of the Safefill here is 2.5 fillings.

With say a purchase cost of £180, that is £72 amortisation cost per refill, then the £12 for the 10 kgs gas per refill, circa £82 a refill.

I think that makes even Calor's awfully high prices look "cheap"? ;-)

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Maybe more often suitable for MHs that travel off site on days out and wish to keep fridge cool? For anybody like me using max 6 kg of gas for my 120 nights or so a year a waste of effort

JVB

It's people like you that has caused Calor to abandon plans for a new light weight cylinder replacement for the Calor Lite