If you have to ask then you shouldnt be doing it as the saying goes.
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not sure to whom you are replying (if anybody)
One often has to ask… here in France… eg: “will this fit that”… as the packing/whatever is not always easy to understand and/or verify…
in the beginning, we might be visiting our nearest DIY place several times a day… we almost became one of the family… 
Getting the “man in charge” to ensure that “this will fit that” before we left the shop… was so much better than making a return journey to exchange bits and bobs…
but I heartily agree… with gas and electric (and so many other things) one does need to know what one is doing… if not… paying the experts is best…
If I subscribed to that defeatist attitude, then nothing would get done, ever.
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I selected butane, precisely because of the location of the gas bottles…
…the barn is basically the same building, but I intend to install an isolation tap on the inlet to the cooker. Thanks for your reply.
Thanks, Stella. Unfortunately the local quincaillerie is permanently closed!
unless the barn is heated (unlikely) you may find issues with using butane. You should be using Propane… there are very good reasons behind this.
this is the link to what I referred to earlier…
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Use 10 mm copper pipe through the wall with new nitrile gas pipe secured with jubilee clips either side. You can put the rubber pipe end in very hot water to make it easier to fit over the copper pipe . If you’re concerned about it being too cold in the barn make a simple insulated box to fit over the cylinder and pipe
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Remember that ther rubber pipe perishes with time hence why they stamp the renewal dateson the coils you buy for butane bottles. I used butane for gas cooker/oven for 32 years here but the last ten were with an electric fan oven for which is was necessary to have the steel flexi pipe attached to the butane bottle in the cupboard next to the cooker and I used the proper Butane clip for the bottle, whole lot easier than those old round metal flat ones. As mentioned, butane is not for outside and propane is a whole different story.
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With gas its different, its fine if you can run a more than 4 miles per second as you,ll be far enough away to avoid an injury. There are really good reasons why there are gas qualifications.
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The copper pipe should be sleeved passing through a wall. An insulated cabinet will reach the same temperature as outside without some form of heating.
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Being nit-picky an insulated box may well become significantly colder than ambient due to evaporative cooling of the gas.
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I can imagine a big bang coming soon just stick to the well earnt regulations
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I am not 100% certain but I think the pipe from the outside gas bottles to the inside has to be metal, doesn’t it? I don’t rent my house but mine is, then there’s a flexible orange pipe from where it comes in to the hob via a security thing.
If I were you I’d get someone whose job it is to do it, quite apart from anything else your insurance may not approve of your doing it.
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Look up Tracpipe = I have used this to connect from a cooker inside a gite to an external, outside gas bottle. Stainless lasts forever…
OP will want a gas shut off valve close to the cooker if the gas cylinder isn’t in the same room.
That looks good - is it available en France?
The pipe run I have, is merely the length of the thickness of a stone wall, plus a little play for the connectors - 2 metres would be ample.
Thanks for the link.
Chris
Hello Chris
I bought the fixing kit with the ends from the UK. My mistake was that I bought the wrong bore. Too big. The specialist calculated for the distance from my gas to the cooker to avoid any pressure drop etc but it is like a mains gas pipe. I think that a smaller diameter would have sufficed and been easier to bend etc. Possibly cheaper too.
You may need to then use an additional conversion fitting on the ends to match your appliance and the gas bottle regulator. These can be found online.
I hope this helps.
Best Regards
Greg
Propane has to be outside butane doesn’t .
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Butane has to be indoors. The risk is mitigated by only allowing the 13kg bottles with approved regulators indoors.
IIRC, you’re allowed one bottle in use and one full spare inside your property, with the spare being stored away from any likely cause of damage or directed heat.
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and the risk mitigated further by using preformed and tested tuyau designed for the job rather than self made up ones secured using hose clips which might not be gas tight or work loose.
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