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quoteCalor, the UK’s leading supplier of LPG, is to discontinue small gas cylinders, including the 6Lite Propane.
It says this streamlining of its cylinder range is to improve customer service and the availability of cylinder sizes in higher demand.
From 1st February 2023, these cylinders will be discontinued:
- 3.9kg Propane
- 4.5kg Butane
- 6Lite Propane
- 12kg Butane
- Cube
Calor customers won’t be able to buy new cylinders or exchange existing cylinders of these sizes for a refill.
If you use a gas cylinder that’s being discontinued in your caravan, campervan, or motorhome, Calor says a 3.9kg Propane or 6Lite Propane can be exchanged for a 6kg Propane, and a 4.5kg Butane or Cube can be exchanged for a 7kg Butane.
Calor said it recognises that this change will impact some customers, such as motorhomers and caravanners, who regularly use some of these cylinder sizes and says they will be offered alternatives within Calor’s revised cylinder range. Other LPG suppliers such as Campingaz also offer similar cylinder sizes for leisure vehicle users.
There are also refillable gas cylinders for caravans and motorhomes from Gaslow and Safefill here. Find out more in our article all about gas for caravans and motorhomers here.
Rogerio Lopes, Calor’s Chief Executive Officer, said: “Improving our cylinder experience is a priority for us as we enter 2023. The legacy of the pandemic has had a significant impact on our supply chain, operations, and our ability to provide a reliable service to our cylinder customers. The complexity of our existing range prevents us from improving the service. Therefore, we’ve taken the difficult decision to streamline our cylinder range, but it is necessary to simplify the business to improve overall reliability and availability to our customers.”
Alternative cylinders will be recommended to customers via Calor’s retailer network and there’s information on Calor’s website as well as how to safely change the regulator.
Anyone with experience of refillable bottles for caravans – I would need to take the bottle out and go to an LPG station. This would mean a Safefill bottle.
There are a number of companies out there: Safefill, Gaslow, and GasBank. These tend to have an inlet valve so they can be safely refilled without disconnecting from the system. You would need a new gas bottle though.
I have one full and one nearly full lightweight cylnders in my caravan. Do I need to get them replaced immediately or wait until they are empty, which may be in 12 months or longer?
You can wait until they’re empty Chris
With a bit of luck Calor will now go to the wall, perfect Karma, I have never used them anyway!
I take it that the gas regulator is all that needs to be changed to switch to another supplier of gas? So the gas itself makes no difference to the cooker?
thinking of getting a Safefill cylinder. my only concern it that I’ve read that Morrisons are going to remove all LPG pumps from its stations by 2024, and more fuel stations are removing it, this would make it more difficult to get a fill. any advice would be appreciated.
Not good enough.
I don’t get this they say they are streamlining to cope with demand but the smaller bottles are the ones in demand, I use the ordinary 6kg bottles as they are the ones my caravan is designed to take
Many sites ban bottles not housed in a unit
Not only a caravaner but a boat owner, there will be a problem because the steel lockers on boats are only just capable of holding these smaller cylinders. Safety regulations for boats are much tighter on boats than caravans, we can’t use plastic housings.
Gaslow all the way – I have 2 Fillers side-by-side, one fills my 11kg Yellow Gaslow and the other fills my 6kg —– lite things 🙂
Always less than Half of Calor Gas £££’s
As a Flogas dealer, I would switch to that brand, there are no plans that we are aware of to discontinue any of the sizes mentioned, obviously you will need to purchase a bottle, but the connectors are exactly the same.
Very disappointed, this was going to be our first year camping and the home we have will only take the smaller Propane/Butane bottles. The 6 & 7kg bottles a far too large for our compartment. Also, have looked into the camping gaz as an alternative but need an empty bottle before I can exchange it for a full one, and no one locally is selling empty bottles. Not very helpful at all. Also, disappointed that there isn’t more information available on what to do when you can’t change to a different sized bottle from Calor….I bet they wouldn’t pay for having my camper altered to take bigger bottles 🙂
Hi CaravanGuard
Are Calor Gas going to refund the deposits that customers had to pay to get the canister. In my case it cost £20.
Hi Scott, you would need to contact Calor. There’s more information here: https://www.calor.co.uk/cylinder-range-faq
Explains why I have been unable to get a refill for my empty 4.5kg bottle
Very disappointed that the caravan industry, Caping Club and Caravan and Motorhome Club didn’t mount a concerted effort to persuade Calor to retain at least one small butane and propane cylinders. The impact on caravaners changing to the next size up is significant, a 7kg butane is 7kg heavier than a 4.5kg butane cylinder so two of those use up 10% of the average small caravan payload. Always assuming there is space for the larger cylinder.
It would help if Calor, Campingaz,
Flowgas etc. were interchangeable and would accept each others bottles for exchange.
Well tha’ts useful – not! My micro caravan has a built in gas locker that is just big enough for the 3.9kg bottle. Now I’ll have to lug a bigger, heavier, more expensive bottle around in the back of the car and leave it standing outside the caravan while its connected. Thanks for nothing Calor. I reckon that there will be places springing up that will refill the smaller bottles from larger ones before long.
Haven’t seen any details of this at calor distribution site am visiting different one weekly for propane lites
This is very annoying, for 50 years I and many others have been buying these and we are told there are far more people camping now!!! madness!!
I can only use the small cylinders in my old camper van what can I use now?
You could try Campingaz?
Calor doesnt like anyone, I had Calor Bulk tank for my home for 30 plus years , prices were high, no consideration for being faithful. Best thing I did was moving to a smaller suplier.
This article was published 13th Feb Calor implemented this on 1st Feb! Was it not possible to get advance notice of this? I’ve seen plenty of rumours but nothing official. I don’t think Calor likes Caravanners.
Calor did publish information on their website before Feb 1st: https://www.calor.co.uk/news-and-views/press-release-cylinder-range and we did post about it on our Facebook page