"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 21:16:32 +0100, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
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>>"S Viemeister" > wrote in message
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>>> On 8/9/2013 3:27 PM, Gary wrote:
>>>> Copout and denial, Jill. My first apt had gas stove with a small pipe
>>>> from stove into the wall. Outside was a large propane tank to fuel it.
>>>> Each tank lasted about 2 years. Sadly, my first tank ran out halfway
>>>> through the cooking of a Thanksgiving turkey. It cooked long enough to
>>>> fill the house with good smells, but then hours later when it should
>>>> have been done, it was half raw and cold. I had to throw it out and
>>>> actually had delivery pizza that time.
>>>>
>>> When I had my gas stove installed, I got two tanks with an automatic
>>> switchover. When one runs out, a red flag pops up and I have plenty of
>>> time to schedule a refill/exchange/replacement of the empty one.
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>>That sounds a much better option
>
> I heat/cook with propane so I have a 500 gallon tank that's filled
> regularly based on degree days, I don't need to call. However they
> may not permit propane tanks where Jill lives, apparently there are a
> lot of HOA rulz there... and I can understand why, a lot of people
> ignore the safety rules and will use propane grill tanks to operate
> their inside cook stoves, a big no-no.

Ah yes! At our house we have gas piped in and it is used for cooking and
heating, but at our cottage in the north, the cooker is electric and for
heating there is an oil tank which has an indicator of the contents (a
level gauge) and that heating oil is paraffin. I don't have any experience
of propane in big tanks. We do use propane for our caravan, although that
is in bottles.

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