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Heating your home with propane or operating a business that uses propane as equipment fuel generally means storing propane in a tank on the property. The propane supply company may provide the tanks for you, but you are still responsible for preparing a spot and keeping the tank free from debris, weeds, bushes, and anything that could make it hard for the supplier to reach the tanks. 

Bulk Propane

Bulk propane does not always refer to a large tank farm. Often the term is used and applies to storage tanks outside your home that are large enough that the propane supply company needs to come to fill them in place instead of having you bring the tank to them. 

Houses that use propane in the kitchen for cooking or heating water and the fuel for the furnace can typically have tanks that are well over one hundred gallons, and in some cases, there are two tanks next to each other outside. When the propane company comes to install the tanks, you need to have a level space close to the main gas line going into the home.

It can be good to get several concrete pavers from the local home center, level the ground then put the pavers down. You can add some black plastic sheeting under the blocks to help keep weeds and other organic matter from growing up around the tanks, making maintenance easier. 

Prepping The Building

Your gas contractor should have run lines from all the appliances using the propane to the mainline in your home that then runs out the side of the house so the propane company can connect to it. If you have not completed this work yet, the propane supply company will have to wait to hook up your tanks and fill them for you.

While some gas companies or propane suppliers offer this kind of work, it is typically easier to have a contractor do the work ahead of time. The contractor will run iron pipe as the mainline in most situations, and soft copper pipe is often used to run from the main to the appliances.

Once the home is ready, the propane supply company will come out and place the tanks for you, connect the new gas line, and fill the tanks with propane, so you have gas available to heat and cook with. The gas line to the appliances will need to be bled, and the pilot lights ignited, and while some propane companies will do that for you, it is essential that you ask, and if they don't do it, you can have your gas contractor come out after the tanks are in and start everything for you.

Ask a local propane supply company like APOLLO PROPANE INC for more information.