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

The real issue in an old Flat Rock house

These historic homes came with big open masonry fireboxes and aging clay flue liners, and an open hearth like that is often a net heat loss — it draws warm room air straight up the chimney. Dropping a sealed insert into the existing masonry keeps the mantel and character while turning the opening into an actual heater, and on the natural-gas mains here there's no tank involved at all.

It's worth confirming whether your street is on the main; most of the village core is, but a few outlying lots run on propane.

If propane is your setup

Off the mains, the tank is arranged with your fuel supplier. Leasing minimizes or waives the yearly fee in exchange for buying propane there; owning costs more upfront but lets you price-shop. The tank is sized to your whole appliance load, and an existing propane furnace or water heater often means the fireplace shares the tank.

Preserving character, done to code

Older flues need honest assessment before anything connects — sometimes a fresh liner, sometimes a full sealed-insert conversion. We pull the Henderson County permit, pressure-test the gas, and connect the unit; any leased tank stays with your propane company. Call (828) 545-0525.