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23/3/2022 at 11:19am
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Quote: Originally posted by Mick S. on 22/3/2022
Quote: Originally posted by Logan1 on 22/3/2022
That's a bit dicey Colin keeping a nearly full gas bottle under the stairs Although, I suppose its no different than having a gas meter under the stairs
What about a gas bottle - or two, yards from your head when you are asleep in the caravan? And gas meters are connected to ....gas pipes - that come through your wall.
Without wishing to alarm anyone, comparing LPG cylinders with mains gas is technically not a direct comparison. The explosion/fire risks of 'gas' are much the same regardless of source being mains or LPG cylinder, where LPG gets a bit scary is that if the leak is of the liquid LPG, then the volumes of gas takes on a whole different scale!
LPG liquid generates 270 times the volume of 'gaseous' gas. For a start 1Kg of LPG equals nearly 2 litres volume of liquid, so your typical 6Kg cylinder has 12 litres of liquid, that can generate 3240 litres of gas in a very short space of time! It gets worse, it needs mixing with air to become explosive, that ratio is around 1(gas):16(air), so you could find yourself with an explosive gas cloud of 5184 litres, that's nearly 52 cubic metres of highly explosive gas/air mix!..... and that can accumulate in a very short space of time, far, far quicker than any leaking or even fully open domestic gas main could achieve!
I was within 1 mile of the Buncefield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead when the LPG leak exploded there in 2005, biggest explosion in Europe since the war, I caught the percussive blast and and saw the flames licking hundreds of feet in the air, I will never forget it! Different scale of leak, but it taught me HUGE respect for LPG! If you need reminding or info on the scale of that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buncefield_fire
Thankfully, LPG cylinders are generally incredibly safe, there must be 100s thousands of them around this country alone, and when did you last hear of an incident! Just wouldn't want one 'inside' unnecessarily!
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