The Propane Homeowner's Quick-Start Guide

The tank in the yard came with the house, and nobody handed you the manual. This quick-start guide is the owner's half of the propane relationship: what you own and what you lease (and why a leased tank takes only its owner's gas), which tank size fits which house and the setback rules around it, how to read a gauge that calls 80 percent full and 20 percent empty, what a delivery ticket's lines mean and how to estimate a year's gas from your own appliances, and the first minute when you smell gas, written to be read from outside. It walks the hardware between the tank and the kitchen, the yearly maintenance a propane system actually asks for, the questions to settle before buying or selling a home with a tank, the winter plan, how to change suppliers and where a complaint goes, and the rules for the grill cylinder. Short on purpose, cited to the code and the council's guidance, and honest about what varies by state and by contract. It never instructs gas work by the owner; it tells you what the technician does and how to check it was done.