Yes — and at Waynesville's near-2,650-foot elevation, a buried tank has a genuine performance edge. Sitting at steady ground temperature, it keeps feeding propane through the long cold snaps that make Haywood's heating season run weeks longer than Asheville's, while an aboveground tank can frost up. It must be a burial-rated tank, set by your propane supplier.
Why the cold makes burial pay off here
Waynesville and the older Hazelwood homes lean hard on their hearths — at this elevation you can run 10 to 15 degrees colder than the valley towns, and the heating season stretches nearly three weeks longer. That is precisely when a buried tank earns its keep. Underground, it stays at the earth's stable temperature and vaporizes propane at a steady rate even on a single-digit night, so the fireplace you're depending on doesn't lose pressure right when you need it most. An aboveground tank on the same cold morning can struggle to keep up. For a Kozy Heat or similar cold-climate unit sized as a real heater, that consistency is worth planning for.
The tank, then our line
Setting the tank is specialized propane work — a burial-rated vessel, corrosion protection, proper bedding — and that belongs to your propane supplier. Steady Flame takes it from the tank dome to your fireplace: the right line size for the appliance, buried to depth on the outdoor run, a permit pulled with Haywood County, and a pressure test before we light it. Thirty-five minutes west of Emma Road, we're set up to install and service it. Call (828) 545-0525 to talk it through at a free in-home assessment.
Fireplace help in Waynesville
We install and service fireplaces throughout Waynesville and the rest of Haywood County — just 35 minutes west from our Asheville-area showroom.
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