Gas bottle chiminea project

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stickmeup

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Gas bottle chiminea project
« on: June 11, 2014, 08:39 »
Decided I'd have a shot of building one of these for out the back, will probnably do one for at the allotment aswell, it will be outside so it's not a wood burner for inside the shed/house

Take one gas bottle



Made sure all the gas was out of it and then removed the valve, and filled with water.  Left it like this for 2-3 days, kept topping up to make sure all the gas was out



My mate sorted me out with a length of flue to use as a chimney, this was cut in half as was a bit too big for what I wanted



then i set about cutting out the front, and the top for the smoke to come out of (was still full of water at this point just to make sure)



Then used a couple of L brackets to fix the chimney to the bottle, this was before tidying up the cuts



It's not a proper fire unless the flames are coming out of the top :)



Also got another one to do one for my mate who sorted me with the flue pipe



Job done, works a treat and has saved me good part of £20 -£30

It cost me £2.07 for the L brackets :)

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Re: Gas bottle chiminea project
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2014, 09:06 »
Those gas bottles are expensive, I thought you took them back to the supplier and got a deposit back.
My daughter inherited one of those fires when she got her allotment but someone nicked it. She saw the allotment, went home to phone the council to accept, when she went back the fire was gone.
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Re: Gas bottle chiminea project
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2014, 09:13 »
No idea, it was left at my allotment with a number of others so thought I would recycle them

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Re: Gas bottle chiminea project
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2014, 12:49 »
It's actually illegal to deface them.  When we used gas brooders for the chicks, we asked Calor why the gas bottles are so expensive and they said we have to charge large deposits because so many go missing, and are expensive to replace.

Not any wonder when you see so many 'other' uses peope use them for!  ;)

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Re: Gas bottle chiminea project
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2014, 13:29 »
Well if they want to come and pick up the other 6 that I had dumped by someone at the allotment, and pay me for them, Im happy to help lol

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Re: Gas bottle chiminea project
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2014, 14:20 »
My son made one too, a bit smaller than that I think,works brilliantly though. I'll send Calor round they're just down the road from me at Stoney Stanton :tongue2:
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Re: Gas bottle chiminea project
« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2014, 20:59 »
Those gas bottles are expensive, I thought you took them back to the supplier and got a deposit back.

True - but the place where I got mine from will only give you your deposit back if you can produce the original receipt, and will then only give you back the amount you paid, not the current deposit value. My guess is that as people convert to 'SafeFill' type bottles that can be filled with LPG from petrol stations, and (hopefully) the lightweight plastic bottles that are now very popular in continental Europe that more of these traditional steel bottles will become available for scrap/projects even if the original manufacturers tell us that we can't.

However as has been said doing anything like this is unlawful and seems to have really upset Calor:
http://www.calor.co.uk/news/calor-issues-safety-warning/

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