Gas Bottle Storage at Home

Craig1 · Guru

Gas Bottle Storage at Home

Tony Bev · Guru

I am not a techi, but

I am led to believe that the reason for not storing a LPG gas bottle inside a house, is that the gas is heavier than air

If the roller door gap is small enough to allow a soft breeze through, then any gas which has escaped from the bottle, may not dissipate quickly enough

Just a thought, and I could be wrong

Craig1 · Guru

Tony, you are quite probably right, I just did not know, so posted this to get folks to check. I now have both bottles under my open 3 sides verandah. Will put some shade cloth in front of them to keep out of direct sun (once we get some).
There was also a note on storage to have the relief side of the valve ( which is opposite to outlet) pointing away from any close walls.

erad · Guru

This raises the question about gas bottles on caravans and when connected to other appliances eg Barbecues stored inside. I always close the isolating valve on the cylinders when I am not using them, so presumably they are safe enough then. But consider caravans in the Spirit of Tasmania. Loose gas bottles have to go in a special trolley which is certainly exposed to the free air, but gas bottles for caravans and presumably motor homes do not. I only use the gas on our fridge when parked somewhere and there is no 240 V power. when travelling I use the 12 V from the car. But later fridges have auto select, and I wonder if the gas systems fire up in the vans when in transit at sea, or do they manually go round and turn each isolating valve off?

Long Weekend · Guru

On our trip across on the Spirit I asked about why loose cylinders were confiscated while ones on caravans were OK. I was told that the cylinders on vans were bolted on, whereas if a fire occurred loose cylinders would fly around spreading the fire.
Confiscated cylinders also included butane aerosols! Don't know where they went, but as far as I knew they weren't given back to their owners.

Murray

Whenarewethere · Guru

I had 5L container for petrol in my car, never asked about such things. But it was empty & well dried out for the boat trip.

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

Any bottles mounted on a van or MH must be turned OFF at the bottle while on the Spirit of Tasmania.

Cheers,

Peter

Possum3 · Guru

Whenarewethere wrote:
I had 5L container for petrol in my car, never asked about such things. But it was empty & well dried out for the boat trip.

Unfortunately empty petrol containers are a greater hazard than full ones owing to explosive nature of petrol fumes.