kevray

Can anyone tell me if Repsol Bottled Gas (Orange cylinders) is available in Italy, specifically Tuscany, many thanks

kevray

I am guessing by the lack of response that this is not sold in Italy, so will not buy one

37100

More a case of no happy campers, I think.

Lorna at Vicenza

I tried to Italian google it for you but kept getting articles from Spain.

However the phone book came up with a long list of companies in Toscana that sell "bombole gas uso domestico" if you want to maybe check some of them out.

jdr

Bottled Butano is sold all over Spain, also Portugal, but the Portugeezers have to use a different valve on the bottle, so this may also be a problem in Italy.

Kenny and Moe

Is the original question 'Is there bottled propane or butane available in Italy'. In UK a blue bottle would be butane and orange Propane (Is that the correct way around) as an ex-caravanner I should know.
If that is the question then bottled gas is available but whether it is butane or propane I'm not sure, bottles come in all sorts of colours. There is also a different connector to any I have encountered before but they are readily available. Hope this helps bearing in mind that butane and propane burn at different temperatures and require different outlets on an appliance. (Having re-read this it actually sounds like I know what I am on about (Rosalindann/Lorna no comments))
Regards Kenny

TestaRossa

I suppose the other question would be "What do you want it to fuel?" Gas bottles are used for all sorts of purposes here - tell us which use you are looking at and that will probably get more responses!

kevray

Thanks for the responses.

Okay in reply to the questions, I will be shortly leaving the uk and driving to Italy, I will be mainly based in the Pisa region as I have the chance of work there, I have an Italian camper van (RIMOR) which uses gas for the cooker, fridge, heater and hot water boiler, all are regulated at 30 ??? PSI maybe, anyway I was told to get a 30 bar regulator which I have done.
I then purchased a calor gas bottle and everything is now working, however, I have now been told that calor is not available in Italy, so when I saw a repsol bottle on Ebay I started to bid for it, but my bid was beaten.

So my question now is :- how much would a 7 kilo bottle of butane gas cost and what regulator should I buy? Bearing in mind that I do not have an exchange bottle.

Many thanks in anticipation

TestaRossa

Maybe I'm being disingenuous here - after all this is Italy - but if the camper van is Italian, surely that means you must be able to get the gas you need here? Or is that just too simple??

37100

What? Us? Comment?...Never.

Kenny and Moe

Kevray, you certainly won't get Calor here, not that I have seen anyway but you can get either butane or propane from all over the place. The connector on the bottle is definately different from any calor connector but again they are readily available. Is 7 Kg the little bottle?, again not seen many of them around they all seem to be the 13Kg bottle or bigger. I think we paid €40 for one (13Kg) which includes the returnable deposit, it costs €15 to replace an empty one for a full one (I think) (About the same as UK).
Hope this helps
Kenny

kevray

No worries

The van is a 1995 one, made by Rimor in Tuscany I believe, the gas system was replaced at some time and has calor gas fittings now, I was hoping to buy a cheap gas bottle here on ebay and then exchange for a full one on arrival in Pisa, just me trying to save pennies, what started out as a cheapish venture is slowly mounting up as I have now spent nearly 1k pounds just renovating and sorting out the van, but I did buy it very cheaply.

I made the classic mistake in thinking that selling all my furniture etc would easily cover these costs, off course now I realise that I will only get around 500 for the lot not the 1000 I had assumed.

I do however, offer my grateful thanks to you all for the replies.

TestaRossa

KEvray - the poke wasn't at you - it was at me believing that just because something was Italian you would be able to get the right stuff for it here - not something that should ever be assumed about Italy unfortunately!