Heating. Propane vs Electric vs Wood Pellet

[D2Cat]

A bargain on fuel is to have an extra propane tank. Summer fill this year was .92 a gallon. You fill a couple of 500# tanks pretty inexpensively. Extra capacity allows you to buy volume when it on sale.

 

[deserteagle71]

A bargain on fuel is to have an extra propane tank. Summer fill this year was .92 a gallon. You fill a couple of 500# tanks pretty inexpensively. Extra capacity allows you to buy volume when it on sale.

Must be nice. My summer fill was just about $2 a gallon more than what you paid. If I had it filled this time of year it would $4 a gallon. I call and have mine filled every August when the price is cheapest; the tank is big enough that it lasts me all year - but then all I use propane for is the cook stove and water heater. Couldn't afford to heat with it!

 

[5030]

A bargain on fuel is to have an extra propane tank. Summer fill this year was .92 a gallon. You fill a couple of 500# tanks pretty inexpensively. Extra capacity allows you to buy volume when it on sale.

Only way to fly. 2 500's here too or 425 each @85% fill capacity plus I pre bought an extra 500 gallons at the summer price.

With my free corn this year, even heating the shop on propane will only consume one tank. House heat is a cheap date. One pallet of pellets (214 bucks) and 8000 pounds of free corn. Bio fuel stove is cooking away. 28 outside, 70 inside and a nice fire to boot.... and I have a never ending supply of free corn now. Life is good. Just have to clean out the stove every Sunday and put the ashes in the garden.

 

[Jw5875]

My shop / garage is 30 x 45 with one section 12 x 20 for the shop enclosed.
I have two MR BUDDY overhead propane heaters, one in each.
I can leave the man door open from the shop to garage and get heat blown in
from that heater.
When just using the shop, I only heat it.
Warms fast with air moving quickly from these units.
Supply is a 1000 gal. tank that supplies both the house and shop / garage.
Usually down to 10/ % by May, refill for about $1200 average till following year.


JW5875

 

[chim]

A bargain on fuel is to have an extra propane tank. Summer fill this year was .92 a gallon. You fill a couple of 500# tanks pretty inexpensively. Extra capacity allows you to buy volume when it on sale.

We've been using propane since '90 for heating the house. When the supplier (who owned the tank) started playing games we buried our own 1,000 gallon tank and buy off-season. It can usually be had for a buck a gallon or less in late Summer here. Around 2,700 sqft, 6" walls and it runs around $500 a year to heat. Here's an example of the current prices here:

Propane, Heating Oil & Fuel Delivery | Lancaster, Lebanon & Berks County

 

[5030]

Never cared for buried propane bottles (tanks) for a couple reasons. One, they will eventually leak and you won't know you have a leak until the grass around the site starts dying and two, you need ocasional access to the valves and float mechanism. I much prefer above ground and yes, we can bury them too. I don't.

 

[shooterdon]

I had a second 500 gal tank installed recently. Even if I do not buy the minimum 400 gal/yr from the supplier, it only costs $53/year "penality" to have the added capacity. I own my primary tank, so I can buy from anywhere if the propane supplier starts playing games. My cost this year is $1.40/gal

 

[chim]

Never cared for buried propane bottles (tanks) for a couple reasons. One, they will eventually leak and you won't know you have a leak until the grass around the site starts dying and two, you need ocasional access to the valves and float mechanism. I much prefer above ground and yes, we can bury them too. I don't.

I'm figuring that with the access hatch, cathodic protection and celebrating my 70th birthday this year, I wont worry too much about that

 

[5030]

I'm figuring that with the access hatch, cathodic protection and celebrating my 70th birthday this year, I wont worry too much about that

Sometimes you win, other times you lose. if you lose, it kills the grass..... and your wallet.

 

[5030]

I had a second 500 gal tank installed recently. Even if I do not buy the minimum 400 gal/yr from the supplier, it only costs $53/year "penality" to have the added capacity. I own my primary tank, so I can buy from anywhere if the propane supplier starts playing games. My cost this year is $1.40/gal

Supplier owned tanks here are a buck a year. I own mine but my rentals have supplier tanks.