How much gas do you use?

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Never used so little gas than we have on this trip, we have now completed 3 weeks out of our 4 and still on the first 6 kg gasit bottle, been expecting it to stop all last week as the dial says it's empty but no, just made the morning coffee, it has been hot though, so maybe done less cooking, but not been on hookup anywhere after the first two days in Italy. (y)
 
Are you sure the second bottle is turned off? :)
 
You're doing well then, ours lasts roughly 2 weeks if the fridge is on gas ?
 
Richard and Ann said:
You're doing well then, ours lasts roughly 2 weeks if the fridge is on gas ?
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That may be the difference , we have now got a compressor fridge in this one but I was always led to believe fridges didn't use much gas.
It is well the longest we have gone on one bottle, as we did use it a bit before we came as well.
 
I recon on 4 to 5 weeks on one 11kg bottle but use no gas to heat its diesel
 
Approx. 1 litre a day for fridge and summer use (boiling kettle a couple of times & heating up tinned food and cooking pasta).
 
chaser said:
That may be the difference , we have now got a compressor fridge in this one but I was always led to believe fridges didn't use much gas.
It is well the longest we have gone on one bottle, as we did use it a bit before we came as well.
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Yeah ours last until we come home if the fridge isn't using it, you'll get another 2 weeks yet ?

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Mattyjwr said:
Approx. 1 litre a day for fridge and summer use (boiling kettle a couple of times & heating up tinned food and cooking pasta).
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Yep, we use about the same. I reckon our 11kg bottle lasts about 3 weeks then onto the 6kg bottle and we refill about a week later before it runs out.
 
11kg lasted 17days on this trip up through Scandinavia
Cooking ,hot shower every night and heating .
Topped up 2days ago 120Noc around £11 on clarity card .
Also no probs finding fresh drinking water along the road .
 
chaser said:
That may be the difference , we have now got a compressor fridge in this one but I was always led to believe fridges didn't use much gas.
It is well the longest we have gone on one bottle, as we did use it a bit before we came as well.
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The 160 Lt ones like to drink gas. Since I ftted an internal fan the fridge works better but uses more gas. A small price to pay for cold beer.
 
On this trip first 11kg bottle ran out and auto changed after 17 days.
No hookup and quite warm temperatures so the fridge/freezer was working hard.
The usual cooking, coffee making and hot water but no heating required.

Richard
 
Our gas consumption is very little as the only time it is used is to run the fridge enroute.
As soon as we get onsite the EHU provides all our power, we have to two Induction hobs for our cooking which are just fantastic and use a remoska when we need an oven.

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Oh dear. We seem to be bucking the trend. I put it down to the Alde heating system but our (thankfully refillable) system gets through it quite quickly. A 6kg bottle needs topping up after about a week. We've had it checked for leaks just in case and they found no leakage. Took it in to Alde at Wellingborough for its fluid change and they checked the whole system as well and say it's fine. :rolleyes:

Wyn
 
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WynandJean said:
Oh dear. We seem to be bucking the trend. I put it down to the Alde heating system but our (thankfully refillable) system gets through it quite quickly. A 6kg bottle needs topping up after about a week. We've had it checked for leaks just in case and they found no leakage. Took it in to Alde at Wellingborough for its fluid change and they checked the whole system and say it's fine. :rolleyes:

Wyn
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We don't have any gas heating in our van, just cooking and water heating.
 
WynandJean said:
Oh dear. We seem to be bucking the trend. I put it down to the Alde heating system but our (thankfully refillable) system gets through it quite quickly. A 6kg bottle needs topping up after about a week. We've had it checked for leaks just in case and they found no leakage. Took it in to Alde at Wellingborough for its fluid change and they checked the whole system as well and say it's fine. :rolleyes:

Wyn
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If you are using Alde heating that's sounds quite low to me.
 
In Portugal last winter our first 11/13 propane lasted 7 weeks. Though only used for hob cooking and tea making, some washing up etc On site so electric for remoska, fridge and their power for showers. Second bottle still going after 4 weeks in Portugal but expired after 4 more in June in SW France when v hot.

We have old fashioned French bottles but as we always start foreign hols with both full have never needed refill. Odd bits are used up on our French hols when replacement is easy.
 
13kg has been lasting us 6-7 weeks, no heating so just the 2 gas rings.

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We bank on using 1 litre a day, have 2 x 6kg gaslow bottles and just use the one till empty and manually switch, then fill up at next fill station, have sometimes filled up after 5 days on first bottle just because it was available.
 
9 litres in 21 days in France, £6.05 in total at £0.669 to refill. Fab!!
 
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JohnJan said:
9 litres in 21 days in France, £6.05 in total at £0.669 to refill. Fab!!
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Similar for us but had to pay almost 1 euro per litre, and the fill up was rapid for the first 4 litres then took ages to get to the stopping point. Since I have no gauge I cannot be sure it stopped because it was full, but when I mentioned the slow fill the attendant said it was maybe that their own tank was empty, but didn't offer to check. So I still don't know if it was that or that I have a problem. I'm awaiting the Gas-it Mopeka tank gauge to be released.
 
We left the Highlands crossed in europe through Francr southern germany, bavaria and I to italy. we were full on leaving home. We had problems with gas regulator and think we lost a wee bit as engineers investigated, put new filters on ted anks, then swapped regulator. We will camped for over 4 weeks and used €16 of gas. Nice chap in Italy filled us up at 60c per litre.we thought that good value.
 
On this trip we used up an 11kg (21 litres of Lpg) cylinder in 16 days.

We rarely use hook up as we usually go on Aires, the fridge/freezer runs constantly on gas except when we are driving, cook a meal most days, a shower at least once a day, hot water for washing and pot washing but we haven't needed any Truma heating at night.

Now on the second bottle and will refill when we see a Fuel station selling Lpg.

:france: :france: :france: :france:

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We got about a week out of a 6kg lite. 3 days and 4 days. No heating on, just washing dishes, shower etc. No EHU and was hot so fridge was working hard. Fitted vent fans and seemed to help as could turn fridge down a bit.

Since fitted a refillable 11kg so hopefully get a couple of weeks out of it, more if on EHU.
 
This whole summer virtually bugger all !
Used a 1/4 of one 11 kg tank
I am gonna end up just putting the heating on for a few hours to burn some off.... Want to have two full ones before we go to Spain and cannot pull in and get just £3 worth
 
Haven't filled our new Gasit yet... Is there a minimum you can buy?

Even from empty its only about £12 I heard so never gonna be a big spend.
 
We filled out gaslow tank in Belgium at the weekend, 13lts at motorway prices 50.9c! Lasted us 8 nights off ehu and 8 nights on ehu, we used the oven most days, total cost €6, really makes re-fillable worthwhile.
 
Nixdorfer said:
Haven't filled our new Gasit yet... Is there a minimum you can buy?

Even from empty its only about £12 I heard so never gonna be a big spend.
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No minimum, the pump just stops when it's full, 80%,.if it's just a couple of litres just hang your head in embrassment and say you thought it would take more. ? ?

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