Smelly gas

[NarrowboatTor]

Aldermaston wharf 13kg bottle of propane £43, just bought one as running low with one bottle empty.

If you're ever on the K&A the peeps there were lovely, very helpful and really friendly, would recommend.

[blackrose]

10 hours ago, Naughty Cal said:

We have enough gas for over two weeks use in the depths of winter which is more than enough. At this time of year it hardly uses any, less than a litre a day for the fridge, hot water and cooking.

 

Two weeks! Blimey. My 13kg bottles each last 6 months as a liveaboard, but I got rid of my gas fridge. Also I switch between the gas water heater and calorifier so I'm not heating water from gas all the time.

1 hour ago, nickd said:

Got twin connectors in the gas locker, when one runs out I switch the empty's gas off, turn the full one on and transfer the peg to it. 

 

I don't understand what the peg is for? I have a manual changeover and I know which of the two gas bottles is in use by which way the valve is pointing.

1 hour ago, nickd said:

Nothing worse than half-way cooking a meal and if the gas runs out you have to mess about with a spanner. 

 

But you don't have to mess about with a spanner with a manual changeover. You simply open the valve on your second bottle and switch the changeover valve over to the second (full) bottle. Or is that what you're saying?

Edited June 18 by blackrose

[Naughty Cal]

13 hours ago, blackrose said:

 

Two weeks! Blimey. My 13kg bottles each last 6 months as a liveaboard, but I got rid of my gas fridge. Also I switch between the gas water heater and calorifier so I'm not heating water from gas all the time.

 

The fridge, heating, hot water and cooking all run on gas when off grid.

 

It is the heating that uses the most gas. But it is so toasty warm and is almost silent when running so we can forgive it that.

 

With the heating on all day, and the fridge running and cooking etc, it uses just less than 3 litres a day, so just under £3 a day which we are more than comfortable with.

[Sea Dog]

7 minutes ago, Naughty Cal said:

With the heating on all day, and the fridge running and cooking etc, it uses just less than 3 litres a day, so just under £3 a day which we are more than comfortable with.

When you put it like that, it sounds rather good! A 20kg bag of smokeless lasts me about 3 days give or take, so that's roughly a fiver without powering the fridge or hot water. An Eberspacher or Webasto is about 0.5ltr of diesel an hour, so that's costing more for those who use theirs like domestic CH. I know you don't have a narrowboat, but the comparitive costs of gas use still looks far better than I'd have expected.

[nickd]

14 hours ago, blackrose said:

I don't understand what the peg is for? I have a manual changeover and I know which of the two gas bottles is in use by which way the valve is pointing.

I'm not a liveaboard and turn gas off at the bottle when boat is unattended, the peg is an aid to my addled memory as to which of the two bottles is currently in use.

[LadyG]

18 hours ago, blackrose said:

 

Two weeks! Blimey. My 13kg bottles each last 6 months as a liveaboard, but I got rid of my gas fridge. Also I switch between the gas water heater and calorifier so I'm not heating water from gas all the time.

 

I don't understand what the peg is for? I have a manual changeover and I know which of the two gas bottles is in use by which way the valve is pointing.

 

But you don't have to mess about with a spanner with a manual changeover. You simply open the valve on your second bottle and switch the changeover valve over to the second (full) bottle. Or is that what you're saying?

I found the Calor bottles very tricky with a spanner so I bought a wheel type valve, easy changeover.

Edited June 19 by LadyG

[Naughty Cal]

4 hours ago, Sea Dog said:

When you put it like that, it sounds rather good! A 20kg bag of smokeless lasts me about 3 days give or take, so that's roughly a fiver without powering the fridge or hot water. An Eberspacher or Webasto is about 0.5ltr of diesel an hour, so that's costing more for those who use theirs like domestic CH. I know you don't have a narrowboat, but the comparitive costs of gas use still looks far better than I'd have expected.

Obviously if we were using Calor bottles the cost would be more. In fact pretty much double which would look much less favourable. 

 

We also have the bonus that when we do go on sites to deal with the emptying and refilling of the relevant tanks, that if EHU is available we can plug in and the fridge, hot water and heating can be run from 230v instead which saves some gas. The cost of electric is usually included within the pitch fees anyway.

[MtB]

5 hours ago, Sea Dog said:

When you put it like that, it sounds rather good! A 20kg bag of smokeless lasts me about 3 days give or take, so that's roughly a fiver without powering the fridge or hot water. An Eberspacher or Webasto is about 0.5ltr of diesel an hour, so that's costing more for those who use theirs like domestic CH. I know you don't have a narrowboat, but the comparitive costs of gas use still looks far better than I'd have expected.

 

Yes its curious isn't it. People moan like fcuk when a LPG cylinder runs out in a week running the heating, but find it wholly acceptable to burn two or three bags of coal doing the same! 

 

 

Edited June 19 by MtB
Spell check interfering

[Sea Dog]

3 hours ago, LadyG said:

I found the Calor bottles very tricky with a spanner

Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey - except for this application because it's a left hand thread, so maybe try something like "Gassy Wassy - Backy Wacky".... but don't get confused and smoke whacky baccy when you're changing a gas bottle! 

[jim mitchell]

or for the political view   Labour In  - Rishi  out  ?   chose your own sides accordingly 😇

[MtB]

37 minutes ago, Sea Dog said:

Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey - except for this application because it's a left hand thread, so maybe try something like "Gassy Wassy - Backy Wacky".... but don't get confused and smoke whacky baccy when you're changing a gas bottle! 

 

Quite.

 

Make sure its safely stored in the place designed for it - in the weed hatch.

[Sea Dog]

On 19/06/2024 at 15:22, jim mitchell said:

or for the political view   Labour In  - Rishi  out  ?   chose your own sides accordingly 😇

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