Propane - a necessity

Propane is something you'll need in your  Camper

Propane  is used to heat  water, cool the  refrigerator and freezer, heat, and  for  the  stove  in the camper. In our  camper, there  are  2  portable tanks that can be removed to be refilled. The  problem with these  tanks are that they expire after  so many years and  have  to be  recertified.

    Propane tanks  expire after so many years and  they  can’t  be filled at the  filling  stations. At first  I thought  hat this only applied to the  ones having an OPD (Overfill Protection Device) valve but, the  last time  that I went  into our  local feed store to get them refilled the  kid didn’t  want to fill them because the  tanks were older than 12 years old. 

I started looking  and  new  tanks run anywhere  from $159.00-200.00 each.

and  that was just to replace  the 7.5 gallon ones.

    I didn’t want us to be  somewhere along the  road and run out  of propane and  have them not wanting to fill us. No heat, refrigerator, hot water or  stove wouldn’t  be  good  if you were relying on it being there.

    I found out that if you have a local propane  distributor in your  area, you’re  in luck! You may  be able to do what I did. You can take them down to them and  have  them re-certify the tanks for you. It cost me $10.00 per tank and took about 5 minutes per tank. The tanks need to be in good shape with no dents or visible  damage and free of rust. So for $30.00, I got 2 tanks certified and  filled with fresh propane. One less thing to worry about.

They just  put a label on the tank and you’re  good to go for 5 years.