We are buying a propane gas vent free (Clark: rental, how much)

[sausages]

heater but I am told the tank has to be outside - anyone know who could do that - install a tank and pipe connection to the house. Our house is currently electric and last winter one of our bills was $650 for the month.

Also bought a wood burning stove but the pipe does not fit the one we have - I want to have it connected safely and make sure it will not burn down the house since the one we had was small and was open with a pipe going to the ceiling and out thru a chimney. any suggestions on either for Clarks Summit

[johnqpublic]

you are going to need a tank from a propane dealer, he should install it for you, and run the supply into the house....I hope you werent thinking of a barbecue sized tank. it will be much bigger

[thecoalman]

You're not going to be saving much with propane over electric, there's a worksheet here. http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/experts/heatcalc.xls


You need MS Excel to open it and use it, if you do not have MS excel you can download Open Office and install it to open and work with the sheet.

www: OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite

Find out the cost of propane delivered and other charges like the charge for the tank. they usually charge you a rental fee. It will calculate the costs per million BTU for each.

As far as the wood stove goes you really should have a professional do it if you're unfamiliar with doing these things. Get a professional chimney sweep to look at the chimney, clean it if necessary and install.

[fenceplier]

We had one and loved it. We had a 25 gallon tank (home depot/lowe's) and took it to town to fill our selves. We drilled a hole through the house and it sat on a outside wall. HOWEVER

A better solution is to have a propane company bring a tank, install the piping and then they come and fill it at your requested intervals.

[I LOVE PA!]

My Mom and I have the same size house, pretty much the same layout...I use all electric, she has electric and a propane insert in her fireplace. Her total cost of heating exceeds ours with the propane. It is not a bargain these days. Electric is actually the cheapest, although PPL will soon be hiking rates too.

[self emp]

the more fuel u use the cheaper the rate i have a 1700 ft cape switched over to propane heating cooking hot water 150 a month last year however electric prices do very state to state in in licensed p and h deffinately get pro gas!!!!!!!!!!!! dont be stupid

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Originally Posted by sausages

heater but I am told the tank has to be outside - anyone know who could do that - install a tank and pipe connection to the house. Our house is currently electric and last winter one of our bills was $650 for the month.

Also bought a wood burning stove but the pipe does not fit the one we have - I want to have it connected safely and make sure it will not burn down the house since the one we had was small and was open with a pipe going to the ceiling and out thru a chimney. any suggestions on either for Clarks Summit

Curious, is natural gas not an option there?

[rocafeller05]

I just read on these boards that someone just bought propane for 0ver $5.00 a gallon! You might want to look into the price before making that move.

[Summering]

My mother loved her ventless. We used Amerigas to put it in and they gave the tank and connection at no cost because you use them for fill ups. After calling around they were the best price. They have to safely connect the fireplace. They won't run a line where something might rub it.......If there is that problem then they use different piping that would cost you extra.
Personally, the fumes bothered me with the ventless. I'd need at the minimum a direct vent.

[John From Scranton]

Originally Posted by sausages

heater but I am told the tank has to be outside - anyone know who could do that - install a tank and pipe connection to the house. Our house is currently electric and last winter one of our bills was $650 for the month.

Also bought a wood burning stove but the pipe does not fit the one we have - I want to have it connected safely and make sure it will not burn down the house since the one we had was small and was open with a pipe going to the ceiling and out thru a chimney. any suggestions on either for Clarks Summit

A couple things to think about before getting a vent less heater.

1. Do you or anyone in your house smoke??
2. Do you or anyone burn candles in your home?
3. Do you have any problems with to much water in the air?

Keep in mind vent less should never be used as your main sorce of heat. Only used as a back up.

There are many good vent less heater's out their. Stay away from the ones at Low's, Wal-mart, ext... Why the price may be a few bucks cheper then lets say a Vangard, you get what you pay for. Also try to stay away from buying a blue flam, as they put alot more water into the air then a brick heater.

Installing of your new heater. Always if you can mount on a outside wall. Makes for alot nicer job, less copper gas line= less money. Make sure its atleast 18'' off the ground. Don't buy a cheap stand for the heater. Someone hits it and you got a fire, if it falls over on the ground.

If you buy 18 or 30,000 btu heater, you will need 2-100 lbs tanks outside. Depending on how much you use the heater that should last you a month. Easy way to fill them each month is to call a propane compy, how ever seeing as the most gas you would take at one time would only be 46 gal,'s and thats if both tanks were empty. The propane compy, is going to charge you 4 to 5 bucks a gal, to fill your tanks each month. Now another thing to keep in mind. IF you dont use any gas 1 month and they still come out to give you gas "And they will" because its their tanks. You will get a min, bill of atleast 36.00 bucks for nothing.

I can go on and on.... But ill stop. I know so much about heater's and propane, because I did it for 8 years. And was the head service tect, any other questions just as me.

By the way the best thing to do is always buy the tank off the propane dealer. And not 100lbs tanks, buy a 100 gal, it has a guage and you can get gas from any compy, you want when you need it.

Hope the info helps out!!