Tanks and Equipment

Refilling your propane cylinder is almost always the better deal. You keep your own bottle, it is filled to its proper capacity, and you pay for the gas that actually goes in. An exchange cage swaps you for somebody else’s bottle, typically filled well short of full. The exception is convenience at an odd hour,…

On tank set day a crane truck brings your propane tank, places it on its prepared base, and a gas line is run from the tank to the house. The system is then pressure tested, and only once it holds does any propane go into it. Most of the decisions were made before the truck…

Most Hill Country homes heating with propane need a 500 gallon tank. If propane only runs your cooktop and hot water, a 250 is usually enough, and a large house, a pool heater or a difficult driveway pushes you to a 1000. Tank size follows what you burn, not the square footage of the house.…

A propane tank monitor is a small sender fitted to the gauge on your tank that reports the real fuel level back to us. Instead of predicting when you will need a fill from your past usage, we can see the number. It is the right answer for a property nobody is at in winter.…

A propane tank is a pressure vessel that holds your fuel as a liquid, sized to what your home burns and placed to meet the safety code. Most Hill Country homes run a 250, 500 or 1000 gallon horizontal tank, leased from us or owned outright, set either above ground or buried. Those four decisions,…

To read your propane tank gauge, lift the lid on top of the tank and read the round dial underneath. The gauge shows a percentage of capacity, not gallons. A full tank reads about 80 percent, not 100, and you should call for a fill when the gauge reaches 30 percent. That is the whole…