Help! Where can I fill up my Safefill gas canister
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Can anyone confirm that I can fill my Safefill bottle at Ullswater Garage in Penrith. They are listed on the Safefill site but occasionally it seems to be out of date?
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yes, www.mylpg.eu has a 'slot' for last confirmed filling (web users can update the website with confirmed fill point details) but AFAIK there's no specific reference to "Safefill' filling as opposed to Gaslow or underslung tank filling, where there is a remote filler...
still a very useful reference site and a call to any station will give safefill users the confirmation they require.
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I don't know what Shell's official policy is but I have just topped up at Titchfield, St Margaret's roundabout. PO14 4BB. Before arriving, I disconnect my hose and turn the bottle to face outwards from the locker. I just pull up at the pump, open the locker and hook up. Whether they would be twitchy about unloading a cylinder from a car boot to refill, I couldn't say.
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Thanks Merve, we visit the area regularly and its useful to know where I can fill my cylinder.
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Just made our way down to Tigerfish’s territory- Bristol - to visit my daughter and to take my two Bristol based grandsons camping and fishing for a couple of nights on the Chesil. Before leaving, I remembered that my 20lt Safefill was empty and my small 5lt one needed topping up so I loaded them and set off for Bristol with the satnav going to Andy’s Gas first. At this point I appreciate that I am lucky to have a daughter based in the same city as probably the most competitive LPG supplier around! Known on this forum for keen prices I arrived at Andy’s Gas and produced my cylinders. 49p a litre! 10p per litre off the advertised price for Safefill top up! 22.8 litres was dispensed all together. The bill- £11.17 So, working on 1.96lts per kilo that made 11.63 kilos. Working on Calors £24 per 6kg swap cylinder- that’s £4 a kilo. So, 4 x 11.63 = £46.53!! That is what I would have had to have paid Mr Calor for the same amount of gas!! Less than a quarter of the price! Congratulations to Andy’s Gas for leading the way with competitive LPG prices. That is why I would have bought a Safefill even if my useage was far less- Another 5+ nights on a non EHU site paid for by savings in gas cost. I am quite envious of caravanners who live in and around Bristol- I wish we had someone like Andy’s Gas round our way!! 🤣🤣🤣
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I built and own a self built very luxurious panel van campervan into which I installed a Safefill cylinder.
Because I was going to be touring France where I know it is illegal to fill up stand alone gas cylinders and because of the problems I had experienced at times refilling in the UK I decided to try to convert install a external wall mounted filling point.
Unfortunately these excellent cylinders don't have 2 entries into the cylinder and they have no plans to change the design, so I made contact with Gasit, who, following discussions, supplied me with a wall mounted filling point, a length of high pressure hose, a pig-tail connection to fit the tank and an in line on/off lever valve.
Following installation, all I now need to do when I need to refill the tank, wherever I am in the UK or Europe, all I do is swap the normal gas take off hose from the top of the tank and attach the pig-tail ended hose from the external filling point and then open the on/off valve.
I then drive to the filling station and connect the filling hose to the external filling point and that's it, one safely refilled tank and no questions asked! I then proceed to wherever, open the gas locker, turn off the lever valve, disconnect the pig-tail and reconnect the normal hose. Job done.
This set up has now been working perfectly for several years without a hitch and without a single question being asked.
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Honestly David the conversion I made wasn't at all difficult to do.
The most difficult bit was the planning and design and that now has been done for anyone else to do exactly the same, then of course cutting a hole in the body might be utterly frightening to some, but when you pluck up courage and measure and mark the cut aperture several times over that is easy as well.
As I wrote Gasit supplied the parts I needed, I don't know if they would, but if anyone wanting to make this simple mod didn't want to do it themselves, possibly Gasit would do it for them?
Phil
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Phil, I recently purchased a 10 kg Safefill cylinder and very intertested in your external wall mounted filling point. Can you clarify please - is the filling point or the line on/off lever valve one way only, otherwise with the LPG gun released, what's stopping the gas coming out?
When filling the cylinder direct, the cylinder manual stop tap is opened and closed to allow for gas flow / no gas flow I believe.
I suspect I'm missing something obvious but can't see it at present.
PS - I haven't filled the cylinder yet, but will be shortly for summer trip to France.
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Tweet from Morrison’s!! Their sites are now accepting Safefill cylinders! Congratulations to Safefill for the dogged determination they have shown. I have always believed this would happen and now it’s here. Other large businesses will now, I’m sure, come on board. Well done Safefill and congratulations to Morrison’s who actually ‘get it’
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