{"id":9829,"date":"2016-03-31T16:15:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/2016\/03\/31\/are-there-any-differences-in-the-gas-test-of-mobile-homes-or-caravans-and-motor-caravans\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:41:09","slug":"are-there-any-differences-in-the-gas-test-of-mobile-homes-or-caravans-and-motor-caravans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/en\/are-there-any-differences-in-the-gas-test-of-mobile-homes-or-caravans-and-motor-caravans\/","title":{"rendered":"Are there any differences in the gas test of mobile homes or caravans and motor caravans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No matter if you have an LPG system in your mobile home or leisure vehicle, you must have it inspected either way.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Mobile_home\"><\/span>Mobile home<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mobile homes in Germany are not considered vehicles and fall within the scope of <strong>building regulations<\/strong>. There are <strong>two options<\/strong> of sets of rules which are to be applied during installation \u2013 and accordingly during testing:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Option 1<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The LPG system is created in accordance with the Technical Rules for LPG (<strong>TRF<\/strong>), then also checked afterwards.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Option 2<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DIN EN 1949<\/strong> is the basis of the installation. The test is then carried out in accordance with worksheet <strong>G 607 (A)<\/strong> of the German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water (DVGW).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you use your mobile home for commercial purposes, you must also observe the provisions <strong>of regulation 110-010 of the German Statutory Accident Insurance Regulation<\/strong> (DGUV) \u2013 formerly DGUV V 79 \u2013 no matter if you install it according to TRF or DIN EN 1949.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9338\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9338\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Zweiflaschenanlage-mit-automatischem-Umschaltventil-GOK-Blog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9338 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Zweiflaschenanlage-mit-automatischem-Umschaltventil-GOK-Blog.jpg\" alt=\"Frequently used for mobile homes: Two-cylinder system for 33 kg gas cylinders.\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Zweiflaschenanlage-mit-automatischem-Umschaltventil-GOK-Blog.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Zweiflaschenanlage-mit-automatischem-Umschaltventil-GOK-Blog-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Zweiflaschenanlage-mit-automatischem-Umschaltventil-GOK-Blog-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Zweiflaschenanlage-mit-automatischem-Umschaltventil-GOK-Blog-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Zweiflaschenanlage-mit-automatischem-Umschaltventil-GOK-Blog-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Zweiflaschenanlage-mit-automatischem-Umschaltventil-GOK-Blog-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Zweiflaschenanlage-mit-automatischem-Umschaltventil-GOK-Blog-705x705.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frequently used for mobile homes: Two-cylinder system for 33 kg gas cylinders.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Leisure_vehicle\"><\/span>Leisure vehicle<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DVGW worksheet <strong>G 607 (A) <\/strong>and DIN EN 1949 applies to LPG systems in caravans and motor caravans. As with mobile homes, you must also comply with the requirements of <a href=\"https:\/\/publikationen.dguv.de\/widgets\/pdf\/download\/article\/3406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DGUV 110-010<\/a> if you also or exclusively use your leisure vehicle for <strong>commercial purposes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9339\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9339\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Fluessiggasanlagen-in-Wohnwagen-und-Wohnmobil.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9339 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Fluessiggasanlagen-in-Wohnwagen-und-Wohnmobil.jpg\" alt=\"Das DVGW-Arbeitsblatt G 607 gilt sowohl f\u00fcr Caravans als auch f\u00fcr Reisemobile.\" width=\"900\" height=\"437\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Fluessiggasanlagen-in-Wohnwagen-und-Wohnmobil.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Fluessiggasanlagen-in-Wohnwagen-und-Wohnmobil-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Fluessiggasanlagen-in-Wohnwagen-und-Wohnmobil-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Fluessiggasanlagen-in-Wohnwagen-und-Wohnmobil-705x342.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The DVGW worksheet G 607 applies for caravans as well as for motor caravans.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_bit_of_help\"><\/span>A bit of help<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can find an overview of the regulations and technical rules applicable to the respective application on our <a href=\"https:\/\/gok.de\/media\/g0\/61\/d5\/1721725253\/Kleinflaschen%20in%20Deutschland_012024.pdf?ts=1721725282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>. We have also listed the applicable replacement periods for pressure regulators in small cylinder systems in this document.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The test is carried out depending on the regulations according to which the mobile home gas system was installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[394],"tags":[283,285,297,345,334],"ausgabe":[],"class_list":["post-9829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camping-leisure","tag-caravan","tag-dguv-v-79-en","tag-g-607-en","tag-motorhome","tag-trf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14481,"href":"https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829\/revisions\/14481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9829"},{"taxonomy":"ausgabe","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gok-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ausgabe?post=9829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}