I was washing my vehicle at the car wash situated on Ferntree Gully Road just prior to the service station on the Springvale Road
Intersection heading East, and noticed two of those Service Station type gas refil bottles that you once saw at all Service Stations.
Thought it a bit strange and wondered what they were doing there when I then spotted a sign on the back fence stating that it was $24.00 a refill for 9kg bottles.
The cheapest for same around me at the moment is Bunnings Swap and Go for approx $28.00.
Anyway, the owner of the car wash was there and a quick query resulted in him telling me that yes, refills 9kg bottles for $24.00 and fills them until the gas starts 'firing/squirting out of the bleeder valve like the old days. He also said that as you pay for 9Kg thats what you are entitled to.
So I finished the car wash, knicked
home and went back with two empty 9Kg bottles, and watched him fill them while i washed SWMBO car.
Yep! he didn't turn the bleeder off until a full stream of LPG was purging.
I gave him a $50 note and he gave me a $5 note back. I queried whether he was short changing himself and he said Nup! you got two filled.
We then had a chit chat about Swap & Go compared to his 9kg fill, the details I don't dare repeat on a public
forum for fear of having to do a 'nugget retraction' etc etc, however I can say he advised me to
check the weight of his 9kg fill against that of a Swap & Go when I got
home.
I'll just say there was 'a difference' which you would have to experience to appreciate.
So! if you want a decent deal on 9kg refills then this may be the place for you.
No! I don't have shares in the establishment or know the owner, and its the first time I have ever been in there. Though I will admit I have driven past it a zillion times.
DD