Safefill 10Kg

TH, if you read the thread about surviving without a 230v ehu, you'll see that the real savings are made by being able to use non-ehu sites at a large discount....some are only £6 ish...

saving £6-£10 a night (compared to many ehu CL/sites) soon racks up the savings.

Merves thread passes on loads of tips including the use of solar panels and inverters to complement the cheap gas, giving you independence from ehu cables and thus widening your choice of site/location. 

I will definitely investiogate further thanks...

Perhaps this is something that the Caravan Club Technical Committee should be looking at? I contacted UKLPG (the trade association of the U.K. LP Gas Industry) for advice on being able to refill containers such as Safefill. They responded straight away. I thought I would copy their reply. I know that Safefill have the 80% fill mechanism and the re-testing, but if you have a look at the UKLPG information sheet I wonder if its the type of connection used which does not make them meet the guidance of UKLPG? As I began should the Caravan Club be pressing for changes so that caravanning can be more good value?

Here is the reply from UKLPG:

"We are revising our guidance on the implications of owning and filling a freestanding LPG cylinder however, I am afraid that the guidance will not differ too much from our existing guidance information sheet 026 (August 2011).

Although we cannot give specific advice please be aware that all LPG cylinders require periodic testing and inspection and there is high potential risk during filling of the cylinder if you do not have the correct connection and safe guards in place to prevent overfilling and therefore over-pressurisation of the cylinder.

There are a lot of legal duties imposed on a public refuelling facility such as a petroleum forecourt which is why many companies do not offer a cylinder filling service.

We cannot tell you what to do but would urge you to gain more information so that you can take account of the whole life costs of owning a LPG cylinder together with the associated risks of filling."

Thanks for that dwig now I think a chat with either Niel or John at Safefill will give you a complete picture. Filling a Safefill cylinder is safer than filling a car and how many do that during a day? I have a feeling, call me suspicious, that this UKLPG may be made up of directors etc from Calor and Flogas!!!

Yes that's in the back of my mind so I had a look at the UKLPG website and sure enough they are members but to balance it so are a number of other bodies including......the Caravan Club. But strangely Safefill are not members. Rather than waiting for somebody else to contact the Caravan Club I have emailed them just now for advice.

On issues like this the CC are as much use as chocolate fireguard

On issues like this the CC are as much use as chocolate fireguard

 

Write your comments here...Couldn't have put it better myself Cyber. I would love to see the CC fighting it's corner for its members but Calor and co are massive sponsers of events etc so little can be wondered at. This is a cartel whose throttle like grip on massive profits in cylinder exchange and the leisure industry is being slowly released by a very brave and resilient company- Safefill. They are fighting and doing the CCs job but they need our help wherever we can give it. Ive said it before and I say it again, the pressure for these perfectly safe cylinders to become the norm is growing. Yes, they are not the answer to some but to most like me they are an absolute Godsend. Power to the people!! 

Cynic that I am, I do wonder how much the reluctance of forecourts to allow refilling of perfectly safe cylinders is actually to do with safety and not due to profit.

As a Safefill costs very little to refill, (under £3 for half a cylinder last weekend), there's no money in it.

hi could anyone tell me if you need a different connecter in your caravan for the safefill bottles thinking of maybe getting one as we do about 5 weeks in summer off grid then a week in may we have the calor lite bottles they cost about £24 for refill which works out quite expensive when your running it all off gas is there many places that will let you refill thanks

Made the switch over to gas light a week ago 10 k at Homebase Christchurch, contract £66, but when you need to change keep your reciept and you get a refill for half price, mind you 10K will probs last me two years so anything can happen in that time, oh and you can actualy see the level of gas used from looking at the cylinder..