28/11/14

Find where to buy bottled from in Pontefract


Buy refill cylinders of butane and propane bottled gas in Pontefract from a local stockist. 

Bottled gas is used widely nowadays as a type of affordable fuel for cooking, heating, leisure use, and as an energy solution for many homes and commercial users in Pontefract (UK).

It is used with all types of mobile cabinet heaters, space heaters, patio heaters, camping and caravan stoves, some portable lighting units, and various pieces of industrial burning and heating equipment. 

Bottled gas is often referred to under the UK manufacturers brand names of "Blue Gas", "Calor Gas", "Camping Gas", "Energas", "BOC", "Flogas", and many others. 

Butane Bottled Gas Refills

Butane type gas is commonly used as a fuel for cooking and leisure purposes. Butane bottled gas is normally supplied in either a blue or yellow-mustard coloured cylinder depending on the brand you choose to buy. It is used widely in camping, boating, and caravanning applications where its is generally used as a "leisure" type fuel for use with camping and cooking stoves, double burner grills, portable barbeques, heaters, and portable refrigerator units. 

One of the most popular LPG appliances that runs off butane bottled gas is the well known Calor Gas type cabinet heater. In the UK all portable cabinet heaters run off a "standard" type cylinder of butane bottled gas, this can vary in size depending on the exact type and brand of cabinet heater that you own, most though accept a 13kg or 15kg standard bottl of butane.  

Propane Bottled Gas 

Propane bottled gas has different properties than butane gas. The most prominent being it's ability to burn at far lower temperatures than butane can. This makes propane lpg more suitable for applications where a lower temperature operating point is required. This could be for cooking purposes where the refill cylinders are stored outside at your Pontefract home, for use on a farm, for use with powered equipment that is operated outdoors (such as a gas powered fork lift truck or site generator), and for commercial uses such as when being used as a fuel source for the heating of bitumen and tar when carrying out the roofing of felt covered roofs.

Propane bottled gas is also commonly used by operators of catering trailers and food vans.  If you own or operate a "burger or a chip van" then it's most likely you will have a need for refill bottles of propane bottled gas.

Leisure Gas Refills

The name of "leisure gas" is what used to be commonly referred to as "patio gas". In recent years "leisure gas" has become the name referred to for a certain mix of LPG that is used as a fuel in patio heaters, portable bbq's, hog roasts, water boilers, and some outdoor camping type stoves.

Leisure gas is freely available from several bottled gas stockists in Pontefract, notably under the brand names of Calor or flogas.

What is leisure gas?

Depending on the brand or make, leisure gas is a mixture of butane and propane gas that is sold in a particular size of refill cylinder. Different to butane and propane, leisure gas usually requires the appliance to be fitted with a 27mm sized regulator valve.

Industrial Heating Applications

A popular use of bottled gas is for use as a fuel for heating applications. In particular propane LPG is widely used along with portable space heaters. These sometimes are referred to as a blower heater, a rocket heater, as well as just a space heater.