Should I set up automatic propane delivery or stay on will-call if I use my fireplace a lot?

Tanks out the valley

While the Enka-Candler corridor is more built up, the fast-growing subdivisions and older places out Hominy Valley and along Pisgah Highway heat on propane. For a heavy user, that's real winter fuel moving out of the tank.

Automatic delivery keeps the supplier filling ahead of your burn instead of after it, which is exactly the difference between a warm January and a cold scramble when everyone's calling at once.

Clean burn matters in the bowl

Hominy Valley sits in a natural bowl that holds air, which is exactly why a clean-burning, correctly set sealed appliance earns its keep here. Many of the builder-grade decorative fireboxes in the new subdivisions get upgraded to real heaters within a few years — and an efficient one sips less propane between fills, stretching your cushion.

Buncombe County, 15 minutes west

We permit with Buncombe County and handle the connection, the upgrade, and any relight after a run-out; the tank itself you coordinate with your supplier. We're about 15 minutes west of the showroom. Call (828) 545-0525.