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How can I get a gas bottle for BBQs?
As I understand it, you need a contract and an appliance inspection, which seems OTT for a simple BBQ.
The local garages here (Salobrena, Motril, Almunecar) will not sell you a bottle unless you have one for exchange already...both REPSOL AND CEPSA.

Pocaloca

It's the law I'm afraid, because they are also used in houses and flats for cooking and hot water. Too many fatal accidents were caused by faulty appliances!

If you go to your nearest CEPSA or Repsol depot you should be able to get a contract and a new bottle without a problem. Then you can just change it at the garage when it runs out.

amideislas

You can buy them at local boot sales or on second hand websites such as segundamano.es

By the way, try to get Propano (propane) bottles instead of Butano (Butane). It's a bit cheaper and burns a bit more efficiently.

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what do you need for the contract?

Presumably depsosit is 50euros+ whereas second hand could be picked up for cheaper/

Any flea markets in Salobrena / Motril?

Pocaloca

I can't remember to be quite honest, probably just an NIE or passport. The deposit wasn't anything like that much, and of course it was full of gas, which a second-hand bottle won't be!

amideislas

Deposit here is €25 (not including gas) and you're supposed to submit to a house inspection (that YOU pay for), but they rarely do it, especially for just one bottle.

We bought 10 (empty) propane bottles on Segundamano for €100.

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any ideas, where on the repsol site I can find a local depot.
They seem to have loads of forms to fill in, which just result in recommending you a gas bottle a phone number to ring to find your depot!

The man in the station said go to Motril before 11am on a weekday but no idea what he said in Spanish after that

Pocaloca

http://www.repsol.com/es_es/producto.../gas-envasado/

Click on Localisador de Agencias then select your Province and Town.

Bri and Katee

In our area of Murcia they keep the forms in the garage. Fill out the form, hand over the deposit (think it was about 27€) per bottle required. Take home bottle. No inspection or anything, this is Cepsa bottles by the way, but the local garage also sells the Repsol ones.

Domino

here we have a man who comes round in an open backed lorry full of canisters, he identifies himself with tooting his horn all round the village, usually on a Tuesday.
Except we have a bread man who does the same thing.

I caught him elsewhere in village and he said he would be about an hour getting to my place. he fitted the pipe and connector that I had bought in Brico for €10 and pronounced the new estufa safe.

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nikkko

propano is the same price as butano, the difference is the propano bottles weigths 11kilos and the butano a bit more then 13 kilos, but per kilos, the price is the same - for only the bbq, wich i assume you will use it outdoors, you need no contracts/inspection etc. , just go to a ferreteria and buy a smal blue butano bottle that plumbers using, that will last you more then you need it for bbq, it is very small and you can change it (for a full one) in most all of the gas stations , specially Repsol and Cepsa

nikkko

there are normal (big) Cepsa aluminium bottles wich weights less than propan bottles/repsol bottles, but gas inside butano always bit more then 13 kilos and propano 11 kilos - you can use eithe rof em, even they selling both types cuz in winter conditions (below 4 degrees) they reccomend propano

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already have a small camping/blue bottle (40 euro deposit!)
It cost about 15 euros for gas which is even more than the big 11/13kg bottles.
The garages will not exchange a blue bottle for an orange one...at least that's what they said.
I assume if we change it for orange, we can't take the orange bottle back to the ferreteria to get the deposit back?

nikkko

small blue bottles are good in case you have no option to buy a big one or you just don´t use too much gas bottles and only need em once in a while, besides the small ones much smaller and easy to move for anybody, even though the price for a refill is the same as a big one and the garages won´t swap em, only if they are the same size/company (cepsa would never swap for repsol orange bottles neither)

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oh ok, I thought you said in the previous post I could swap blue for orange at the garage.