Safefill 10Kg

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  • Merve
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    edited October 2017 #92

    I could swear I have seen cages of Calor cylinders on  the three sites I have visited over the past 25 yrs! So you have to leave the site and look elsewhere for an exchange cylinder? Not very convenient that! 

  • Merve
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    edited October 2017 #93

    Hillclimb, good post proving that once you have bought your cylinder and assuming that you use enough gas to justify the purchase, Safefill is massively cheaper and the more you use it, the cheaper it is. 

  • EasyT
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    edited October 2017 #94

    As far as I am aware it is the wardens that sell the gas. On the other hand most users of CC sites use EHU and why would they want refllables in general?

  • ocsid
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    edited October 2017 #95

    I am sure you are technically right that the wardens "sell" Calor, but it must be a moot point in that surely the club provide all the storage infrastructure, most likely the insurance and own the land and I have never seen other brands on offer?

    Re take up of refillables it is hard to visulise many who take EHU routinely or exclusively on club or any sites are into this market, so IMO the numbers needing LPG dispensing must be quite small?

    I can see the drift to MHs and their seeming attraction to use anything but campsites will grow the leisure take up of LPG fuel pumps so that might help preserve LPG facilities in the face of declining automotive use. Many of these I suspect though will be fixed or semi fixed systems as they need to go to the pumps to transport the storage vessel anyway, therefore that does not really help the portable market. Sadly though I feel the leisure market take up is too small to replicate the loss of the automotive use to an extent not large enough to support the whole costings of having LPG on forecourts. Here locally they are already disappearing.

    Merve, don't fly off in a tisy  I am not at all negative about Safefill, just being realistic and putting counter arguments into the "discussion", after all that is what this forum is about. For us massive users of gas one would be brilliant if it could be reliably filled locally.

  • JVB66
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    edited May 2019 #96

    Just had to exchange our calor lite 6kg it has only lasted 2yrs and 5month with about 160/170 ñights per year away and it is now £27.50 surprised 

  • cyberyacht
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    edited May 2019 #97

    I don't want to upset you but I topped up my Safefill with 6Kg on the way back from my last trip for £7.36, so a saving of £20.

  • ocsid
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    edited May 2019 #98

    I doubt he will feel too cheated if he does his sums on the write off costs of him changing to a Safefill, where he uses, six kgs of propane in two and a half years.

    Thats  in the Safefill's life of ten years,  10/ 2.42 x 6 = 24.8 kgs of propane; So the useful life of the Safefill here is 2.5 fillings.

    With say a purchase cost of £180, that is £72 amortisation cost per refill, then the £12 for the 10 kgs gas per refill, circa £82 a refill.

    I think that makes even Calor's awfully high prices look "cheap"? ;-)

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    edited May 2019 #99
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  • EasyT
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    edited May 2019 #100

    Maybe more often suitable for MHs that travel off site on days out and wish to keep fridge cool? For anybody like me using max 6 kg of gas for my 120 nights or so a year a waste of effort

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited May 2019 #101

    JVB

    It's people like you that has caused Calor to abandon plans for a new light weight cylinder replacement for the Calor Litewink

     

  • EasyT
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    edited May 2019 #102

    And me too David. No real advantage for me over a 3.9kg propane

  • JVB66
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    edited May 2019 #103

    But will it last nearly2.5 years so investment in refillables for our life style will never be a savingwink

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  • JVB66
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    edited May 2019 #105

    Am I boveredcool

  • JVB66
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    edited May 2019 #106

    Are there some with less,in their pitch charges,  how awfull not very cost effective cool

  • cyberyacht
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    edited May 2019 #107

    As I have posted before, whilst the cost saving is welcome, it is the ability to replenish whilst abroad that is a big plus.

  • allanandjean
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    edited May 2019 #108

    Hi cyber, to copy your phasing it’s the inability to easily fill up here that’s stopped me buying one! Oh, and the amoritisation of course!!

  • Milopearlindie
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    edited May 2019 #109

    How do you all fill your Safefill bottles up, do you have to take the caravan to the garage or can you store the bottle in the car and take it? Sory if this is a silly question but it would put me off if I had to take the caravan.

  • Boff
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    edited May 2019 #110

    Take the bottle and leave the caravan at home.  That’s what I did yesterday. 

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