Sorry if this is a silly question or one that has been answered hundreds of times.
If your blue gas bottle freezes is it safe/ok to use again? We have kept ours in the shed over the winter (didn't feel comfortable having it in the house!!) and I have recently read threads about the bottles freezing which made me worry.
I don't think we had that bad a cold enough winter, for the length of time to freeze a gas bottle .Obviously it may have been in some places .I don't think it will have had an effect on the safety of the bottle Calor bottles are used outside all year round in a number of statics and homes in this country
------------- Corpogreen esq
dead horse
and
donkey buyer
Only Butane freezes,propane wont,most bottle suppliers will swapp a blue bottle(butane)for a red bottle (propane),but you will need to change the regulator.
------------- Think this year is to follow old meet friends for 2014.
If you cant do someone a good turn,don`t do them a bad one,its nice to be nice you know,and little things mean much more later in life.
Pete.
Don't panic, just think about it, all the thousands of Calor gas bottles have to be stored outside at Calor's depots, and at the stockist's due to HSE regulations.so yours has had a nice winter being in the shed.!!
The freezing point of butane is minus 138 degrees Celsius, so I think it is extremely unlikely that it will have frozen in your shed.
At low temperatures, it is the boiling point that is the problem with Butane - that is the temperature at which the liquid in the bottle gasses off. Imagine boiling a kettle - if the water isn't heated enough it won't boil, or turn to it's gas form, so stays in the kettle rather than escaping as steam, or in the case of Butane it stays in the bottle instead of coming out as a gas so you can cook with it.
The boiling point of Butane is 0.5 degrees C - so at any temperatures below about 5 degrees C it becomes sluggish and won't come out as a gas at normal pressure, and at 0.5 it stays as a liquid and doesn't gas off at all.
------------- Caz
If you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel, just keep going till you go round the bend.
Amazing family weekend with old steam engines, classic car displays, market stalls, and full catering and bar. And camping on site - Save £25 by booking in advance.
Topic: Frozen gas bottle.
