Gaslow refillables

If you are thinking of buying a refillable system, I have to say that this is probably about the most professional and user friendly system you could get. It is also very good, and no problem. I started using this system when I was shocked at how expensive gas was getting, so I bought a 6kg gaslow bottle and used it on a changeover with a calor 6kg, the calor is the backup bottle, however sold a bit more stuff on ebay and raised enough money for another gaslow bottle. You basically have 2 entries on the bottle one is the normal gas outlet which happens to be the same as butane, but autogas is propane, I dont know why they used this thread? the other is the inlet and is piped to a filling point you can either mount this in a gas locker or it can be mounted on the exterior of the van by drilling a hole, its not too drastic and very convenient, but when you sell the van you will have to either hide it or buy another filler. Pull up at the petrol station that sells gas, you can find them on the net for wherever you are or are going. Connect the filler and fill up until it stops, if you fill for the first time, I recommend just putting 12 litres in and thats how much in a 6 kg, the first time you fill some gaslow bottles you can overfill. The pump normally switches off when bottle is full. Then, use gas as normal, and you dont have to be so frugal, a calor bottle is around 17 now and there is barely 5 worth of gas in it. Last week I filled both mine after using for a year and cost me 13, this was on motor-way services so slightly more expensive, but would be about 11 to fill 2 bottles. We are going away for a week at the sea in april and I know I have loads of gas and we dont tend to be so frugal as its easier to fill and cheaper too, so water heater can be left on longer etc. It looks like 2 bottles will last about me a year maybe less, depends on electric hook up use, but we hope to use CL's more and be self sufficient more. However certainly recommended and they comply with any regulation that forcourts have, however I have found some of them dont really know the rules and there are bottles you can buy which are not as complete a system and dont have the required 80% fill system fitted. Which the garage is supposed to stop you using if they dont but doubt this would ever happen, I filled my first bottle in the boot of the car before fitting to the van, which is probably naughty but they are generally too busy to watch everyone and they think you have a gas car, when filling the van, there shouldnt be a problem and their regs state that the system should be 'fixed' to the vehicle used. Update, went away for new year and used nearly two bottles over the week, heating on most of the time and hot water, it was cold. Filled up when I went and filled up on the way home, it was amazing how much gas you can get through without hook up in the winter. I actually thought one bottle had got too cold to gas of on the third day, but found out it was empty, also found that propane will gas off at much lower temperature so no problem there. So switched to second bottle and used 3/4 of that, fill up on way home was around 8 so not bad, could have cost nearly 40 with calor. If I stick to hook up for this year that may last most of the year now.

Update, filled up after a few weekends use, bufore hols in wales. Got about 5 in, both bottles full. Word of caution here, while I was at wales it got hot, the bottles were filled and obviously started to heat up. There is a vent of in the valve body for excess pressure so when the sun is out and you have just filled the bottles, you may find you smell gas and there is periodic hissing, this is no cause for alram and yes gas is being vented of as the bottles are being heated by the weather, but once the level has settled etc and some gas has been used it will stop venting usually within a day, but only a very small amount is vented, it is to release the pressure if the temp rises on a full bottle, do not worry you should not have a leak.