I have a couple of 11kg Gaslow bottles fitted and they have been one of my best buys.
I originally fitted a single Gaslow bottle with a 6kg Calor bottle as back up.
The cost, about five years ago, for a Gaslow bottle, refill kit and hose, bracket, filling kit and French adaptor came to around £200.
It took me, a total amateur, less than 2 hours to fit the system - with the filling bracket inside the Gas locker.
When it was fitted I then took it to a qualified Motorhome Gas engineer and he checked it over for free.
We now have two cylinders and each 11kg bottle holds about 21 kilos of gas and we've never had a problem when filling up despite the filler being in the locker.
We cook most nights with gas, have showers each day, the fridge runs on gas when we are on site, have around half a dozen brews each day, wash pots, pans and ourselves with gas heated hot water and when it's cold weather (most of the year) the heater runs on gas.
Many of you will use less gas than we do but what we spend on the gas is compensated by the fact that we rarely, if ever, pay for electricity especially when we're abroad.
We don't have to 'fight' for the last hook-up point or have to arrive early to get hooked-up but wherever we go we know that we will not be left high and dry without sufficient heating, hot water or a decent brew up.
We used a full Gaslow bottle in three weeks in March/April last year on the Dordogne, we rarely if ever go on hook up, and for a fill of just over cylinder it cost around €14 in France and with no electric costs seems a decent bargain to me.
There are other systems on the market but Gaslow works for us with no problems in five years.
No more lifting heavy bottles in and out, no more swearing when you trap your knuckles or drop the cylinder on your foot and we never run out – when one bottle empties we search for an Lpg/Gpl station in the next few days.
Many other people choose systems with lighter bottles because of payload worries and it comes down to ease of fitting, any good caravan or Motorhome dealer should be able to fit them, and how much or how little you're prepared to spend on a system.
And the best bit is – if you change Motorhomes or even (heaven forbid) sell up you can remove the system and get a reasonable price for it – recouping the vast majority of your initial outlay can't be a bad result.
With refillable cylinders, a couple of decent leisure batteries and a
Solar panel you can go almost anywhere at any time of year without worrying and surely that's got to be a good thing not to have to worry when you're on holiday.
