Yes, and out the rural valleys around Mars Hill — Spring Creek, Gabriels Creek — propane and wood are the everyday fuels, so a buried tank is a familiar sight. Away from the university-area rentals, homes past the mains run LP, and at this cooler elevation a buried tank vaporizes steadily on cold nights. Your propane supplier sets the burial-rated tank.
Rural valleys run on propane
Mars Hill splits two ways: the university-area rentals that want an easy, switch-on gas fireplace, and the rural homes out Spring Creek and Gabriels Creek that have always leaned on propane or wood. For the rural side, burying the tank is a natural fit — it clears the yard and, at one of the colder spots we serve, keeps propane vaporizing steadily through a hard freeze instead of frosting up aboveground. For a home you count on for heat when the power's out, that steady feed into a millivolt or battery-backup gas fireplace is the difference between warmth and a cold night.
The tank, then the permitted line
A buried tank is specialized propane work — burial-rated, coated, anode-protected, and properly set so Madison County's soil doesn't corrode it early. That's your propane supplier's job. Steady Flame handles the fuel line from the tank dome to the fireplace: sized for the appliance, buried to the required depth outdoors, permitted with Madison County, and pressure-tested before it lights. One licensed gas contractor owns the whole fuel side. Thirty minutes north of Emma Road. Call (828) 545-0525 for a free assessment.
Fireplace help in Mars Hill
We install and service fireplaces throughout Mars Hill and the rest of Madison County — just 30 minutes north from our Asheville-area showroom.
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