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Website shows $28.95 but in-store it is $19.50 for 8.5kg bottle
Not sure it is store wide or just for Browns Plains store
[QLD] Swap'n'Go 8.5kg Gas Bottle Exchange $19.50 @ Bunnings, Browns Plains
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Last edited 04/04/2022 - 13:35 by 2 other users
Last edited 04/04/2022 - 13:35 by 2 other users
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About $250/hr because you come.out with power tools, gardening supplies, paint, a ladder, etc
Similar thing happens with Costco visit, with the initial plan to just get milk and eggs
Yes, loitering beside the queen mattress wondering, are the roof racks on the car or not? Are the tie-downs in the boot? Ooo do those pizza's fit in my oven or not???
'Sif anyone would plan a trip to Costco and not walk out with a BBQ Chicken
@Matt P: It’s possible. I know people who plan their visit just to have lunch from the free samples, then stop to get a cheap hotdog on the way out.
Bunnings getting rid of swap n go?
I swapped one at Mt Gravatt store today and it was $28.95.
Swap n go prices are store specific
Yea if only we got the email, unlucky
Swap n go is such a rip off. Just get it refilled for $15.
Wow! I was not even aware this was possible.
Any suggestions of where one can do this?I am googling this now.
Where can ubget refills for 15?
I know that some metro petrol stations refill, Anaconda and BBQs galore refill, all for about $19 though.
BTW - the Swap & Go service was not initially put in place to provide cheap ‘n easy LPG. It was an effort to weed out all the unsafe out-of-date cylinders in the community that really shouldn’t be refilled. Check the handle on your cylinder and you’ll find a date stamp, that will be when it needs to be checked for damage and hydrostatically pressure tested. At that point a new date should be stamped on.
Before Swap & Go there were thousands of unsafe cylinders being used that really shouldn’t have been. Reputable refillers were meant to check them and refuse to fill if it was damaged or out-of-date, but most rarely did (or, it was the teenaged junior who’d never been trained properly what to look for). With Swap & Go you’re guaranteed to get a safe, integral, in-date cylinder. If you find one that slipped through you’re entitled for a refund or free swap. Old cylinders returned to them are either rechecked & tested or disposed of. Since the program started the number of incidents of cylinders failing and causing damage or injury has dropped markedly.
This
Edit to my above post: the date stamp is when the cylinder was manufactured or last tested. It should be safe to use without obvious damage (deep nicks, scratches, dents, bent valves, etc) within ten years from the date. This web site has a good explanation.
Apologies for the mistake in my earlier comment, it was bugging me that I’d done so but by that point it was too late to edit the original version.
Before Swap & Go there were thousands of unsafe cylinders being used that really shouldn’t have been
The bottle isnt tinfoil. Unsafe… maybe… "blowing up", rupturing bottles, hurting people, hardly. Its true they were older than 10 years, but generally perfectly safe. Things were expensive as a proportion of weekly earnings back in the day. You were not buying new bottles every 10 years, and no government was going to tell you you had too. People commonly inherited Dads bottles. Ive got my father inlaws squat maybe 1.3kg bottle from the 60s, made without a cage for the valve.
Youll get more issues with poor installation, than a fault in the design.
Cylinders themselves are generally robust, I've only ever seen one that actually ruptured on the side and that was after impingement from flame weakened it. It's the valves that will usually fail first. I spent several years in the fire services and apart from the one mentioned above all the other incidents I attended were due to faulty valves. And guess what? The majority of those cylinders were out-of-date.
It's a free country so you're quite welcome to roll the dice every time you refill your old cylinder. I prefer not to, and I hope most others would choose the same.
@Chazzozz: Youd have to wonder how we got by for the decades prior to the change if it was such an issue.
You dont need a regular gas cert for a car either, only if you sell it… the tank and its valves and solenoids may not have seen a test for 30 years.
I haven't had one refilled for years. Every servo used to do it but I'm talking a good 20 years ago since I last got one done.
BBQ's Galore want $25 to refill one from what I can see
I need a 4kg done any idea if it's discounted too? if not I'll call them
Some refills…
Local BCF charge $20 (member price) for 9kg but the BCF further up the coast is $27, Anaconda do $20 for members, BBQ Galore do just under 25.
Most charge around the $30 for 9kg but some are over $30Provided its in date, most would fill your Swap n Go bottle too.
Keep in mind if you compare pricing based on auto gas, LPGs are about 2litres per KG. Anything near $18 is pretty good for 9kg. And no the various mixes of LPs arent so different the pricing is off.
Can I bring my no-name bottle to swap with their bottle? mind one has gone past 10 years
How much for Swap n Loiter?