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+1 for Flogas. Use them for propane for the house, and butane for the tin tent. Delivered to the door, great prices.Richard
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Far too far away for you but we have just come off using these at around £140 ish for a pair of Calor 47Kg's delivered. When looking around for them and speaking to suppliers - make sure they know it's for heating purposes as some outlets will have subsidised supplier deals specifically for this purpose (most won't) and of course the VAT rate is different too and theeeeennn......???
31st Dec 2018 10:46 am
Iguana
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Went through Flogas in the end, but £66 for 47kgs
Delivery on Monday Iggy/Ieuan
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5th Jan 2019 5:13 pm
leeds
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How much was delivery? At £66 I was interested until saw £48 delivery.
Last 47kg cylinder was £75 delivered
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5th Jan 2019 5:39 pm
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My local builders' merchants delivers them at about £70 including delivery.
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5th Jan 2019 7:16 pm
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Iguana wrote:
Cheers all, back online now....
Loads of handy links and suggestions as usual, we're in Burtle about 15 mins from Somerset, there's a place up in Mark will try them this morning and get a price
Nigel, saw your self fill posts, may look at this longer term, our nearest petrol station does LPG, only 10 mins away also
Just up the road from my place, which has LOG and an adapter to fill 47kg bottles.
I think it’s 77p a litre and they take 90L
5th Jan 2019 8:29 pm
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Surely if you fill them at a road fuel station, you pay road fuel duty on it which makes it more expensive than getting it from a heating gas supplier?
5th Jan 2019 9:31 pm
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I pay £80 in NE Scotland.
5th Jan 2019 10:27 pm
Iguana
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leeds wrote:
How much was delivery? At £66 I was interested until saw £48 delivery.
Last 47kg cylinder was £75 delivered
Brendan
Including delivery Iggy/Ieuan
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6th Jan 2019 12:11 am
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Gareth wrote:
Surely if you fill them at a road fuel station, you pay road fuel duty on it which makes it more expensive than getting it from a heating gas supplier?
LPG is between 50 and 70p a litre from filling stations, there are roughly 2l to a kg. a 47kg bottle can be got for £60 and holds roughly 94 litres so you would need to get your LPG at less than 63.8p a litre to make refilling worthwhile. Refilling is only really worth it on smaller bottle sizes say 6kg caravan size which cost over £20 or around £1.75 a litre.
However it is worth noting there is nothing legal in refilling Calor or other gas suppliers bottles, they belong to the supplier and not the end user. Also there is as far as I am aware no safety tested refilling equipment available for retail purchase, there was an instance a while of someone getting burnt on a forecourt using a refiller from Ebay and several sellers have been prosecuted for selling unsafe kit.
Part of the issue is no 80% cut off, tanks should only be filled to 80% of the volume, car LPG systems and setups like Gaslow for caravans and motor homes have a cut off built in. Calor gas type cylinders dont have this, its part of the refilling system at the plants.==================================
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6th Jan 2019 12:30 am
leeds
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Have been doing a bit of a search and found a 47 kg propane for £51 including VAT and delivery.
Slight problem I have got is empty bottle is a calor one but the possible supplier is a different brand. Do gas companies accept different companies empty bottles?
Brendan
6th Jan 2019 12:34 am
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6th Jan 2019 2:02 am
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Hi,
No Brendan, they only like their own Brand
although a lot of suppliers will supply a new cylinder with no deposit, not Calor they charge a deposit if no mt
As said above about filling propane, commercially it is filled on weight, if you look on the cylinder shells most have a weight stamped then weight of product added
think its been mentioned before but just to add a safety note as its a liquid inside the cylinder with a Head of pressure and the pressure safety valve is in the valve, if you lay the cylinder on its side that safety valve is in the liquid so can NOT sense any pressure increase (work) thats why you should always transport cylinders upright
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Thanks RB, found out via a phone call today that they will only accept their own brand of gas cylinder.
Brendan
7th Jan 2019 8:13 pm
Iguana
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Turned up today, very happy with service
Flogas don't ask for a deposit, so you don't need a bottle to begin with
SWMBO happy now, should keep us going until we get the log burner installed (perhaps 1 more bottle refil)Iggy/Ieuan
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