Hello I have been doing air con and fridge for 4 years now and I want to start doing private work on weekends but the problem im having is getting stuff like refrigerant. Ive always got it on accounts off of my main job when at work but if I wanted to do a weekend job how to I go about paying cash for it and where from. I looked on climate centers website and it says it costs over 1000 pound for a 10kg cylinder of 410 or any of the gasses? Surely thats not right.

Also my second problem is I did an Nvq level 2 and did a safe handling of flourinated gasses as parr of it but its not an f-gas course so I dont have an f-gas number so do I have to give them my certificate number for getting refrigerant as I dont have the short fgas number.