Yes, and in Fairview buried tanks are a common sight — this is propane country. Out on the large wooded lots past the gas mains, many homes run LP, and burying the tank keeps a natural setting uncluttered while, at 2,375 feet, it vaporizes steadily on cold nights. It has to be a burial-rated tank, set by your propane supplier.
Propane country, wooded and cold
Fairview is squarely propane country — spread-out wooded lots out Cane Creek and Garren Creek where the gas mains don't run, and a lot of those homes lean on propane and wood for heat. A buried tank suits that setting on two counts: it keeps a wooded property looking like a wooded property instead of parking a tank in the clearing, and at this elevation it holds ground temperature and keeps feeding propane through a cold snap when an aboveground tank might frost. For a home relying on a gas fireplace as backup heat, that steady supply is the point. Wood stays popular here too — but for switch-on convenience with outage-proof millivolt or battery-backup ignition, propane earns its place.
Set the tank, then call us
The buried tank is your propane supplier's specialized job — burial-rated, coated, anode-protected, and bedded so the soil doesn't rust it early. Steady Flame takes the fuel line from the tank dome to the fireplace: sized for the appliance, buried to the required depth outdoors, permitted with Buncombe County, and pressure-tested before it lights. Running that gas line is licensed work — our lane and no one else's. Fifteen minutes east of our Asheville showroom. Call (828) 545-0525 for a free assessment.
Fireplace help in Fairview
We install and service fireplaces throughout Fairview and the rest of Buncombe County — just 15 minutes east from our Asheville-area showroom.
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