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owning propane tanks in New Hampshire
I'm trying to get a pair of customer-owned 1000 gallon underground
propane tanks installed in New Hampshire. I had talked to a couple of propane dealers who would supposedly do the job but they just faded away. (They obviously preferred to rent the tanks to me. I wish they had said up front that they wouldn't do the job rather than stringing me along and disappearing...) The general contractor thought he could buy the tanks but found that it has to be done through a propane distributor. Can anybody recommend a propane company in New Hampshire that is friendly to (or at least not seriously hostile to) customer-owned tanks? Dan Lanciani ddl@danlan.*com |
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In article , ddl@danlan.*com says...
I'm trying to get a pair of customer-owned 1000 gallon underground propane tanks installed in New Hampshire. I had talked to a couple of propane dealers who would supposedly do the job but they just faded away. (They obviously preferred to rent the tanks to me. I wish they had said up front that they wouldn't do the job rather than stringing me along and disappearing...) The general contractor thought he could buy the tanks but found that it has to be done through a propane distributor. Can anybody recommend a propane company in New Hampshire that is friendly to (or at least not seriously hostile to) customer-owned tanks? Dan Lanciani ddl@danlan.*com This sort of question would probably go better at city-data.com in the New Hampshire forum. |
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ddl@danlan.*com (Dan Lanciani) wrote in
: I'm trying to get a pair of customer-owned 1000 gallon underground propane tanks installed in New Hampshire. try nh.general, but don't expect much. i don't know anyone that owns their tanks. i suspect that the EPA frowns on underground tanks, or at least underground oil tanks are not allowed. and why do you need *2* 1000 gallon tanks anyway? lee |
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"enigma" wrote in message ... i suspect that the EPA frowns on underground tanks, I don't know about what regulations apply here, but leakage of LP gas is far less of a danger than leakage of diesel. Propane tends to find its way into the atmosphere, not the ground water. It's for exactly this reason that I used to specify LP generators rather than diesel for my (then) employer's installations. Especially the one that was right next to the settling basin for the city's water plant! Vaughn |
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On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 13:08:37 +0000 (UTC), enigma
wrote: ddl@danlan.*com (Dan Lanciani) wrote in : I'm trying to get a pair of customer-owned 1000 gallon underground propane tanks installed in New Hampshire. try nh.general, but don't expect much. i don't know anyone that owns their tanks. i suspect that the EPA frowns on underground tanks, or at least underground oil tanks are not allowed. and why do you need *2* 1000 gallon tanks anyway? lee Propane is not oil, and propane tanks may be buried. The regulations that apply have to do with local permitting and that is where the OP should check, if he needs to. |
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On 1 Oct 2010 22:00:22 GMT, ddl@danlan.*com (Dan Lanciani) wrote:
I'm trying to get a pair of customer-owned 1000 gallon underground propane tanks installed in New Hampshire. I had talked to a couple of propane dealers who would supposedly do the job but they just faded away. (They obviously preferred to rent the tanks to me. I wish they had said up front that they wouldn't do the job rather than stringing me along and disappearing...) The general contractor thought he could buy the tanks but found that it has to be done through a propane distributor. Can anybody recommend a propane company in New Hampshire that is friendly to (or at least not seriously hostile to) customer-owned tanks? Dan Lanciani ddl@danlan.*com Dan, I see no one has answered your question. I own a buried propane tank in NH, but I did not do the installation. It was done years ago and, although the propane company thought they owned it, they did not have any documentation. Since I did not want to pay the yearly rental, as I would be using far less than one tank full per year, they decided to just transfer ownership to me. The tank was originally used to fuel a 400,000 btu heater for an inground pool. However, we do not use the pool or the heater. I use it solely to fuel a backup generator. Unless we have a long power outage (which does occur some years), my annual usage is minimal. As I recall, when I was dealing with all this, there was a firm in Nashua who did installations, but I can't recall their name. I had the "line work" from the propane tank to the generator done by Energy North Propane. They may know where you can purchase a tank; I don't know if they will arrange for underground installation. You are probably aware of this but I should emphasize that the tanks for inground and aboveground installation are different. And you cannot install and above ground tank in the ground. You will need to check with your town about permits. An inspection by the Town was required where I live. |
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On Oct 4, 9:06*pm, ddl@danlan.*com (Dan Lanciani) wrote:
... I expect heavy usage--it's a big old house and my plans to insulate will take a while to implement. *I'm also getting a generator (thinking of a Kohler 15RES) but I don't have any experience with power reliability in the area. ... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Dan Lanciani * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ddl@danlan.*com High winds blow down trees, causing local outages that they usually fix in a few hours. Maybe once a decade a winter ice storm can take out power for a week. jsw |
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ddl@danlan.*com (Dan Lanciani) writes:
In article , (Ron Rosenfeld) writes: I explained that I wanted a remote level readout with alarm contacts for my computer. He kept talking about how I could access my level over the Internet from their server and how they could program their "modem" to dial me or something like that. I said that I was talking about a readout that was completely local and did not depend on their service at all. I gave him a copy of the Taylor catalog with the appropriate product highlighted. Oh? I've been seeking that myself. Everything I found was dealer-focused, needed a cell phone connection, etc. I'd like to know what you found. -- A host is a host from coast to & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 |
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In article , (David Lesher) writes:
| ddl@danlan.*com (Dan Lanciani) writes: | | In article , (Ron Rosenfeld) writes: | | I explained that I wanted a remote level readout with alarm contacts for my | computer. He kept talking about how I could access my level over the Internet | from their server and how they could program their "modem" to dial me or | something like that. I said that I was talking about a readout that was | completely local and did not depend on their service at all. I gave him | a copy of the Taylor catalog with the appropriate product highlighted. | | Oh? I've been seeking that myself. Everything I found was dealer-focused, | needed a cell phone connection, etc. I'd like to know what you found. The dealers are very focused on dealer-focused solutions. See he http://www.squibbtaylor.com/subfiles/taylorcatalog.pdf The 136619 is the nice (but expensive) one with aux contacts. The 136617/136618 is much cheaper and appears to fit more gauges, but no contacts. Dan Lanciani ddl@danlan.*com |
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ddl@danlan.*com (Dan Lanciani) writes:
| Oh? I've been seeking that myself. Everything I found was dealer-focused, | needed a cell phone connection, etc. I'd like to know what you found. The dealers are very focused on dealer-focused solutions. And gievn there's no cell service there..... See he http://www.squibbtaylor.com/subfiles/taylorcatalog.pdf The 136619 is the nice (but expensive) one with aux contacts. The 136617/136618 is much cheaper and appears to fit more gauges, but no contacts. I found this http://www.rochestergauges.com/pages/PDFs/R3DReedSwitch.pdf earlier. -- A host is a host from coast to & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 |
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Jim Wilkins wrote in
m: High winds blow down trees, causing local outages that they usually fix in a few hours. Maybe once a decade a winter ice storm can take out power for a week. which perfectly explains why we were without power for 9 days in 08 & 7 days in 09... and rates have increased nearly 14% because they didn't have insurance for ice (it cost too much) or crews to trim trees by the lines and now have to pay the crews that were imported to fix their stupid mistakes... at any rate, i have an old house & it works just fine when the power is out, so it's only an issue when i've got chicks in incubators (but that gives me priority when they restore power). lee |
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