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Subject Topic: Butagaz Le Cube first purchase Post Reply Post New Topic
PersonNigel Wales
26/4/2016 at 2:19pm
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I'm off to France in 3 weeks to collect my new caravan.

I'm planning to purchase a Butagaz Le Cube Propane cylinder from a Leclerc petrol station. When I buy the first container, do I need a French address, or will my UK one do?


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PersonBerriow
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I don't know but I think the address might be to let you one day claim a refund on the cylinder, so I would offer them a UK address first, and if they insist on one in France I would give them one - a campsite, a friend's or even an invented one. A communist border guard in Laos once asked me where I was going to stay so I invented one for him too. He wrote it down.


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Is there an advantage over bottles by using a cube?


Personemmitdb
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HI,

It's no drama.
They just want your address for the contract that the attendant in the kiosk at the filling station will fill out for you. The contract is nothing special but it will allow you to get your deposit back if you hand it in.
It will be helpful for them if you write your details on a piece of paper, a la envelope. That will save you trying to pronounce your address in a manner understood by them.
(Unless of course, you speak fluent french or even more surprising, they speak effortless Taff!!)

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How come when some people visit the fountain of knowledge, they only gargle!!!


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The refill of 6kg butane is less than 18€ so a price advantage over Calor particularly if you are spending some time in France. Cube uses a 27mm clip fitting or regulator. The other French gas suppliers do similar size bottles but cylindrical rather than cube shape & use 20mm clip fittings.

Cheapest if you are sited in France are the 13kg butane bottles which use same screw in regulator as Calor 4.5kg butane.

Initial cost of Cube & similar is about 27€ + gas contents. The 13kg bottles popular for household use in France are only about 9€ bottle cost or free I think, if you use Carrefour brand bottles


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10/3/2022 at 9:43am
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The main advantage with Cube is of course cost and availability if you holiday in France every time. Another advantage I discovered and it depends on your storage locker, is the ability to store them, one on top of the other. I managed to get my first bottle (half full) for a tenner in the UK from the popular selling site.

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Personsteveheather
10/3/2022 at 5:03pm
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Just looked at my 'Contrat de Consignation' for a Butagaz Cube that I bought from a Bricomarche in 2017. They asked me to fill the form in myself and I supplied the address of the local campsite where I was staying at the time. I didn't have to verify that I was staying there though...
A Brico will often be the most economical place to buy. I recall the guy was very helpful and relaxed about the process.

Good luck, Steve


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