Before using a patio gas bottle, please take a look at our PDF technical publicationon how to use patio gas safety. As the 13 kg of gas was free I don't mind buying a regulator as long as I buy the correct one and don't end up buying 2 or 3 to get one to fit correctly. Now we only BBQ at home in warmer weather so a butane bottle for the BBQ would be just fine. Especially as the gas was free.

All our regulators are colour coded to match the corresponding cylinder colours. Our butane regulators are blue in colour to match butane gas cylinders and our propane regulators are red in colour to match the red propane gas cylinders. Now I've seen there are clip on regulators in 20mm and 21mm fitting for butane, it would be difficult to determine by measurement if one of these were the correct regulator, if indeed either.There isn’t a protective cap on your patio gas bottle, so make sure the top of the valve is nice and clean Please note that Propane gas cylinders contain considerably greater pressure than Butane cylinders and as a result, regulators are designed for use with either Propane or Butane and are not interchangeable because of their different design pressures and the different connections on the cylinder itself. If you'd like to know more about butane,please take a look at our PDF technical publication on butane gas

We offer several low-pressure regulators including Propane regulators, Butane regulators, Handwheel Propane regulators and Camping Gas regulators. We also offer high-pressure regulators for certain appliances and pheasant rearing, both of which require a larger operating pressure and capacity. Then you need a Butane regulator not a Propane and this is the common gas for "clip-on" coupled regulators in the UK. There are a number of questions that always come up when searching for a gas regulator; which regulator for Calor gas, which gas regulator for BBQ, which regulator for propane tank etc. Here at Gas Equipment Direct, our aim is to make it as easy as possible for our customers to find the exact regulator they require. It ought to be easy enough to measure the bottles spigot diameter; clearly the difference between 20/21mm to 27 is obvious but with care you should be able to identify the 20 from the 21. From freecycle I have been given a 13kg butane gas bottle ( not Calor ), and from the weight ( swing feel ) of it it would seem to be nearly full.If you'd like to know more about propane, please take a look at our PDF technical publication on propane gas