How much does it cost to buy or lease a propane tank when adding a gas fireplace?

The Arden fireplace worth fixing

Those 1980s and 90s homes came with open masonry fireplaces that draw warm room air straight up the chimney — drafty, and often a net heat loss on a cold night. A sealed gas insert dropped into the existing opening turns it into an actual heater, and because Arden is on natural-gas mains, most of these conversions involve no propane tank whatsoever.

Large Biltmore Park retail and office spaces sit on the mains too, so commercial gas-fireplace work here is the same connect-to-the-meter simplicity.

When a tank does enter the picture

A property past the last main runs on propane, and there the tank is arranged with a fuel supplier: leased for a low or waived annual fee tied to buying propane from them, or owned outright for more upfront and the ability to price-shop. The supplier sizes the tank to your total load, not the fireplace alone.

Insert conversions, permitted

Converting an open masonry firebox to a sealed insert needs a correctly sized liner and a licensed gas line — work a mason legally can't finish. We pull the Buncombe County permit, pressure-test the gas, and connect the unit, about fifteen minutes south of our showroom. Any leased tank stays with your supplier. Call (828) 545-0525.