Bottled gas price rises

[U.Toadifact]

OK I know we use very little gas so over the year and a half a 6kg bottle of propane has lasted us the price rise is bearable. However I have just replaced said bottle which eighteen months ago cost £20. It is now £31!

I think I will buy a cow and stuff the cooker feed hose up its arris. It must be cheaper.

 

[Two on Tour]

Topped up our underslung LPG tank the other day in France at 59 pence a litre which works out at £6.94 for 6kg.
Certainly had our money back and some on our underslung LPG tank system since installing it.

 

[pagey]

Just topped mine up In intermarch in France 10 litres 6.23 euros

 

[John.]

31!

I think I will buy a cow and stuff the cooker feed hose up its arris. It must be cheaper.

Think I’ll try this on the central heating when we get home

 

[pagey]

Think I’ll try this on the central heating when we get home

If it all goes bang you will have a lot of cooked meat to freeze

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[Spriddler]

OK I know we use very little gas so over the year and a half a 6kg bottle of propane has lasted us the price rise is bearable. However I have just replaced said bottle which eighteen months ago cost £20. It is now £31!

I exchanged a 6kg Calor propane for my son two weeks ago at a main Calor distributor and that gone up from around £20 to over £30.

 

[PaulyP]

My static has the 47kgs bottles which were £65 then they went up to £80 a few months ago, then at the start of last month went up to £90, so far it’s been mild so only just started to put any heating on. No doubt if gas prices come down then the price of theses bottles will stay the same !!!

 

[Go_buddy_go_]

Just swapped our 6kg……£34.99!!

 

[gus-lopez]

The 6kg here ( price is unregulated) is 22€
the 12,5kgs is 19,55€

 

[Stealaway]

A 6kg bottle holds 12 litres of gas.
That would cost around £7.50 to refill with LPG.
You are having to pay for collection and delivery of the bottle plus the price of the gas

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[EuroTrotters]

OK I know we use very little gas so over the year and a half a 6kg bottle of propane has lasted us the price rise is bearable. However I have just replaced said bottle which eighteen months ago cost £20. It is now £31!

I think I will buy a cow and stuff the cooker feed hose up its arris. It must be cheaper.

And you milk and eat said cow

 

[EuroTrotters]

The 6kg here ( price is unregulated) is 22€
the 12,5kgs is 19,55€

Im going to replace our 4 x 11kg Cespa propanos. Price of 35kg is so much more expensive per kg.

 

[EuroTrotters]

A 6kg bottle holds 12 litres of gas.
That would cost around £7.50 to refill with LPG.
You are having to pay for collection and delivery of the bottle plus the price of the gas

Not forgetting the regulations and pressure testing

 

[Jonno1103]

OK I know we use very little gas so over the year and a half a 6kg bottle of propane has lasted us the price rise is bearable. However I have just replaced said bottle which eighteen months ago cost £20. It is now £31!

I think I will buy a cow and stuff the cooker feed hose up its arris. It must be cheaper.

Sign up with Flo Gas, £25.75 inc VAT for a 6kg bottle.

 

[poppycamper]

However I have just replaced said bottle which eighteen months ago cost £20.

Are we talking Calor here... if so £20 was a GOOD price..
Not got a refill since I was a tugger 6yrs ago and don't rmbr ever paying less than £26 for refill. !

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[Lenny HB]

Pleased we have refillables a 14kg bottle lasts us 15 days & we do very little cold weather camping.

 

[Jonno1103]

A 6kg bottle holds 12 litres of gas.
That would cost around £7.50 to refill with LPG.
You are having to pay for collection and delivery of the bottle plus the price of the gas

That's true but if he's only going through 6kg in 18 months there's no point spending £500 having a single 6kg gaslow bottle fitted.

At £25.75 a Flogas bottle will cost him £1.43p a month. How long would it take to recoup the cost of a £500 refillable installation?

 

[poppycamper]

That's true but if he's only going through 6kg in 18 months there's no point spending £500 having a single 6kg gaslow bottle fitted.

At £25.75 a Flogas bottle will cost him £1.43p a month. How long would it take to recoup the cost of a £500 refillable installation?

Agree 100% However 6kg in 18months.
Does not seem very much.

 

[Basildog]

Agree 100% However 6kg in 18months.
Does not seem very much.

We have used a 6kg in a day in cold winter weather

 

[Kelsae2]

Paid £49+ for a 13kg Calor Propane last week. It has certainly gone up in price quite considerably this year.
The prices this year now include a Cylinder Delivery Surcharge, which at the moment is just above £4 . That is with Flo Gas, don't know what Calor add.

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[Gaston aires]

Just topped mine up In intermarch in France 10 litres 6.23 euros

Which adapter do you use in France? We have a set but probably will fill up soon.
Phil

 

[Stealaway]

That's true but if he's only going through 6kg in 18 months there's no point spending £500 having a single 6kg gaslow bottle fitted.

At £25.75 a Flogas bottle will cost him £1.43p a month. How long would it take to recoup the cost of a £500 refillable installation?

Safefill bottles are around £200 and you can remove it and sell it when you have finished with it for probably more than he paid for it

 

[Stealaway]

Which adapter do you use in France? We have a set but probably will fill up soon.
Phil

The French one is the simple cup one

 

[pagey]

Which adapter do you use in France? We have a set but probably will fill up soon.
Phil

The large dia one that the gun fits inside

 

[The Wino]

The French one is the simple cup one

So much easier to use than the bayonet ones in the uk

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[Go_buddy_go_]

Hi all… do many of you use safefil? Just curious as to price, ease of filling etc. we have original heavy calor so as relative newbies to mo-going may consider changing.

 

[U.Toadifact]

Just to clarify some points raised above;

I use a local supplier, Rectory Gas. Always cheaper than Calor and during the great Calor bottle shortage they always had bottles.

Eighteen months does seem a long time for a 6kg bottle to last but I keep records and know it is correct. We use the gas mainly for boiling the kettle when off grid and reheating prepared food. Only in the last couple of weeks have we used the gas for heating in the evenings.

Refillable bottles are not ideal for us as nowhere around Toadifact Towers has filling points.

 

[Stealaway]

So much easier to use than the bayonet ones in the uk

Definitely ------ and I'm going to have to use it shortly.
The gas ran out overnight.

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

At the lincoln show a 6kg bottle was around £29.30 as I recall, and they were delivering to Van's for that.
I was just curious of the prices as I have an empty 3.6kg bottle at home which was £23.60 to exchange. I wanted to use it for an external cooker instead of the camping gas bottle my son gave me.which are around £40

 

[The Wino]

Definitely ------ and I'm going to have to use it shortly.
The gas ran out overnight.

We've never actually run out the gague shows empty when we still have about,1/3 to 1/4 left. Then again the heating is diesel so it's just hot water and the fridge.

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