Refillable Gas Systems

Addendum: The website takes a bit of a time to learn how to use it but is fairly accurate. I have used the route planner and when you click onto a garage symbol and then on the ‘details’ you will see underneath the main title ‘Safefill approved refill Centre ‘ or whatever it is. Hopefully, all Morrison’s Fuel stations will have that printed on their sites soon!! 

2 weeks go I went to my not so local garage at South Anston to refill my Safefill but they had no gas that wasn’t a massive problem as I have the  large bottle, while away I looked at the Safefill site and found that Ebro Leisure on the A64 were down as a place for refilling. I rang them rather than just dropping in and spoke to 2 people the last 1 telling me they only had 1 left in stock but didn’t do refills, so having noticed that there is a Londis BP site in front of Ebor I rang them only to be given a massive NO to refilling so my question is how often do Safefill check their info.

I think I know more than most. All I can say at the moment is that Safefill are working very hard to bring Safefill into the ‘mainstream ‘ Let’s put it this way, I am confident that Safefill will emerge a main player together with other refillable systems in the next year or two. One has to understand that the history of the LPG cylinder has not been covered in glory due to idiots refilling cylinders that were never made for refilling! When a gas cylinder (Calor) is spinning around on a garage forecourt and causes the garage to close operations- that sort of thing is massively damaging to us, the genuine leisure user who have bought their refillable cylinders in good faith and fill them correctly. Add to that that large businesses take forever to check things out where safety is concerned (after all it is their business) and we have a blockage in the system. Don’t forget that with Coshh, risk assessment, method statements, blocking tactics  and goodness knows what else, it all takes time. Never mind that Safefill have been and done all this work - these businesses want to do their own and I can understand that for the reasons I gave above. I am entering my 5th year with Safefill and I am more confident than ever that the market will open up and refilling will become far easier. On the comment regarding Safefill and the database- again, I would advise people to use MyLPG.eu as indeed Safefill does-  When you look up a refill point be it a service station or whatever. It will tell you whether it’s a Safefill friendly site under the title. Over and above that, there is a facility on there for us to ‘confirm’ the station. In other words we can inform each other- ‘yes, this station exists and it’s this price as I went there yesterday ‘ I think that is really useful- we can help one another. So, for me, the future for Safefill is bright - a good product can’t be killed- demand will keep it alive. Hope this helps. 

DD, I was asked a specific question about Safefill and I have answered it. I also, you will note, mentioned other systems. This thread is about refillable gas systems. I just happen to have Safefill which is all I can talk about with any knowledge. Gaslow, Gas it,  all have their place in the rich fabric of caravanning and Motorhoming. 😂😂

If you look at the second post (mine) you will see that I mentioned (in no particular order)

• Gaslow
• Gas It
• Safefill
• Alugas

These are all "Refillable Gas Systems" or as you like to say "Direct Fill Cylinders"

CY I think has summed it up nicely, caravan owners would probably prefer a light weight, refillable bottle (correct me if I am wrong but that is only Safefill at this point in time?) as every saved kilo helps!

Motorhome owners can choose that system or any of the other slightly heavier portable bottle or one of the "fixed" installations from that list as they generally have more "spare" weight to play with.

Advertising? I don’t think so?

While we are talking about refillable LPG, don’t forget Andy’s Gas (J17 M4 )

very useful if you passing that way ... 42p Ltr