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13/05/2008, 17:02 Athene Joined on 10/09/2004 Dept 17 Posts 335 camping gaz Hello all caravaners! please can you help me? We are buying in the UK a UK caravan that has all its paperwork for France. (The seller brought it back to sell!) We intend to take it back to France for use there where we are domiciled. I just want to know if a UK gas bottle can we used in France? Are the bottles the same as in the UK ie when the bottle is empty, can I swap it over in France for a full one? Is there a choice of using either butane or propane and which do you all use please?    Report

13/05/2008, 17:45 gosub Joined on 15/01/2008 North 47 Posts 148 Re: camping gaz You will need to buy a  French gas bottle if you want to exchange it in France, for a choice see below. Normaly if you do winter caravaning in cold climates you would use propane and the rest of the year you could use butane BUTANE Butane liquefied petroleum gas – LPG – is one of two gases used in caravanning. It is supplied in blue cylinders and burns slightly hotter than propane, the other gas. For a given cylinder size you also get slightly more butane than propane. However, butane will not ‘gas’ below 1°C, whereas propane will do so down to -40°C, so butane is unsuitable early and late in the season. Many year-round caravanners, prefer to stick with propane all year. Les    Report

13/05/2008, 19:19 Richard T Joined on 26/02/2008 Posts 33 Re: camping gaz If you mean Camping Gaz the brand take a look at www.campinggaz.com which has a search facility. You can specify the size of bottle and the area and it will tell you where you can buy it. Richard T    Report

13/05/2008, 20:44 alpina Joined on 11/09/2007 Posts 10 Re: camping gaz You will also have to buy a new gas connector here in france. Its a very simple job to switch them over. I want to be an immigrant    Report

13/05/2008, 21:07 sid Joined on 16/12/2005 Deux-Sevres [79] Posts 425 Re: camping gaz The replies given have just about summed it up. I brought a UK caravan with us and finally got round to registering it last year. Part of the process involved having the gas installation checked; are you saying that you already have a certificate from Bureau Veritas? If not, then I recommend that you ditch the UK gas bottles while you're in the UK, they're no use here, and fit out your 'van with French bottles. Replace your flexible gas pipe at the same time. There are several different types of regulator available, I went for a clip-on type, having still had the old screw-on ones in England. Choose a bottle type which you can get at your local petrol service station for convenience. Happy caravanning Sid   I came into this world with nothing; by careful management I've still got most of it left!    Report

14/05/2008, 11:18 trees 2 Joined on 28/04/2008 Posts 65 Re: camping gaz We used "Camping Gaz" for a year or so, until a kind French shopkeeper pointed out that the price for THIRTEEN kilograms of Butane in a French Cylinder was the same as for 2.75 kg in a camping Gaz cylinder. We bought a cylinder and a regulator and have been using it in our caravan, (not the same cylinder,), for fifteen years.    Report

15/05/2008, 0:20 Athene Joined on 10/09/2004 Dept 17 Posts 335 Re: camping gaz Thank you for the replies - very helpful! Yes we were lucky as all the paperwork has been done and all we need to do is change the names over to ours and change the area.    Report

15/05/2008, 0:22 Athene Joined on 10/09/2004 Dept 17 Posts 335 Re: camping gaz Yes we have the paperwork completed on the caravan but I think the last owners will need to sign that they have sold it?    Report

15/05/2008, 9:23 gosub Joined on 15/01/2008 North 47 Posts 148 Re: camping gaz  Athene wrote: Yes we have the paperwork completed on the caravan but I think the last owners will need to sign that they have sold it? I suppose that you know you need more than just a signature? "Certificat de non-gage" "certificate de cession d'un vehicule", much the same as selling a car, but of course no CT. If you need it here is a link to the forms required: http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/sections/a_votre_service/vos_demarches/vehicules?b_start:int=0 Les    Report

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