GOING GASLESS
As with many motorhomes, your leisure vehicle is probably equipped with a gas-powered hob and heating. Gas works well in this application: it’s energy-dense and heats up the hob very quickly.
The downside is that you’ll need a space stealing gas locker or an underslung tank to house it. If you’re using traditional gas bottles, you’ve got the age-old delight of having to lug the empty cylinder to the campsite shop/garage/garden centre and then staggering back with the heavier full one. And why do they always run out at night? When it’s freezing cold and all retailers within a 50-mile radius are closed? Perhaps there’s a better way…
Gas systems
One issue with gas bottles is the cost. As I write, a 13kg Calor propane refill costs £35.50. A litre of propane weighs around half a kilo, so that works out at about £1.36 per litre.
Orange propane bottles work best for all-year touring (it gases to a lower temperature), while the compact blue butane bottles are handier for seasonal tent camping.
Refillable gas bottles (such as Gaslow or GAS IT) or LPG tanks (Autogas 2000) not only get around the problem of lugging bottles and messing about with spanners, they’re also
