OT: What da ya pay for small LP exchange?

gordy from Iowa · Sep 14, 2012

Was charged $28 today at local mart. Dang near said "no thanks". Had some ribs on the grill and ran out. Gonna get the Super M started later today!

Sorry for the bad grammar.

Lamar Fudd · Sep 14, 2012

Gordy, it's running about $18.00 at Menards. The best $50.00 I ever spent went on a conversion kit to switch from propane to natural gas. Seemed like every couple years we'd have company (inlaws) and I'd run out. Even had two tanks before the law changed to that O.P.Device; that was when I decided to run a line outside and use the 'neverending' source. Use the old bottles on a weed burner, now.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 14, 2012

I don't exchange, have them filled at local supplier. I have several filled at a time. If I remember right, last ones were $14. In Ill.

J-TEX · Sep 14, 2012

$15.00 and change at local Wally World here in North Texas

Bill in IL · Sep 14, 2012

I think its up to 16.00 to get a tank filled around here. 20 bucks on up to get them exchanged

Mike (WA) · Sep 14, 2012

Runs 20 to 25 bucks around here- for about 10 bucks worth of propane. Its convenient, I guess, but not THAT convenient. Several places here to refill your own bottle, but you do have to plan ahead a little and do it during business hours, when few cookouts are happening, so I can see some value in being able to exchange 24/7. If I run out during the BBQ, I just get the bottle off the cutting torch.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 14, 2012

I have them filled when they fill my big tanks.Filled this summer at .88 a gallon.How many gallons in a 20 # Tank? Also got 2 100# one on grill the other on the smoker.A few 20 # for winter to use with the salamander heaters

sd pete · Sep 14, 2012

12 bucks for a refill.

Ozlander · Sep 14, 2012

(quoted from post at 11:24:28 09/14/12) Was charged $28 today at local mart. Dang near said "no thanks". Had some ribs on the grill and ran out. Gonna get the Super M started later today!

Sorry for the bad grammar.

$6.50 here.

I fill off my big tank.

36 Coupe · Sep 14, 2012

It runs 20 bucks here, used to be seven.I kept one tank to refill propane torch bottles.I keep a small charcoal grill. feed it wood scraps from the table saw.

Fawteen · Sep 14, 2012

An empty 20-pounder will hold right around 4.5 gallons. At the moment, we're refilling at $2.57 a gallon.

The exchange deal is a massive rip-off. You're not being paid for what gas (if any) is in the exchanged tank, and they're overcharging the heck out of you for the new one.

Inspection date stamped on the filler guard has to be within 12 years in most cases. If your's is getting close, do the exchange thing, but check the date on the new tank.

Sneaky, but effective. At least around here, it's nearly impossible to get a tank re-tested and re-dated.

caseyc · Sep 14, 2012

Exchanges at gas stations and stores run around $17. Local suppliers run saturday morning specials for $12, fill on site.

Casey in SD

Daryl in PA · Sep 14, 2012

$14.00 at the local hardware store for a refill

Winchester1 · Sep 14, 2012

$15.00 here. Was $20.00 or so a few months ago.

JOHNNYfromMI · Sep 14, 2012

A lot of the exchange places now fill 18 pounds in the 20 pound can. Read the fine print.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 14, 2012

Can you weigh a can,so you know when you're getting low?

john in la · Sep 14, 2012

$15 to have my tanks filled at a local mom and pop store but he will fill any tank you bring him in or out of date.
Only problem is the owner is the only person that will fill tanks so you have to catch him there.
Not really a problem for me because I have extra tanks. Put my name on tank; drop it off on the way to work and pick it up full on way home or next day.

Ultradog MN · Sep 14, 2012

I don't know what the 20 pounders run as I have a pair of 30s for my camper.
Used to be I could get a tank topped off and just pay for the propane they pumped.
Now most places make you pay for 30 even if the tank was 1/3 full.

jm. · Sep 14, 2012

$12 here at the LP place but the quick stops and wally world are around $ 17 to $22. We have a quick fill set up on one of the 1000 gal tanks here on the farm, makes it handy and cheap.

Stephen Newell · Sep 14, 2012

I have mine refilled only I use a full 20 lb. tank. It runs $14.00

Russ from MN · Sep 15, 2012

You got $crewed, but what are you going to do wen the food is on the grill. you need to get a spare tank. I have about a dozen, use them for deer stands and fish house. If I get them filled two at a time it's $13 each. The only time I exchange is if it's a tank no one will fill. Menards, Home Depot, and Walmart are <$20.

Eric Rylander · Sep 16, 2012

I pay about 20-22 bucks here in Savannah, GA. The nearest place I can get one refilled after working hours is U haul, and you can wait half an hour for someone to be free to fill it. Not worth my time.

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