I waited four weeks for my plumber to come connect my propane tanks together so I will have more propane to heat my house through the winter until my access road can be fixed.



This extra valve is because ‘you can never have too many valves’ according to Brian. He said he’s been on jobs where if there had been a $5 valve, he could have finished the job in one hour at his $200 rate, but without the valve it was 4 hours, making it an $800 job.



That old valve is where the old tank hooked in before we had to move it from behind the garage. Looking at this, I’m not sure why we needed this new valve, but he probably thought it through better than I have. Knowing him, he doesn’t trust the old valve.

I hope he doesn’t charge his full rate for the hour or so it took him to get his van out of the sand on my driveway. I should have warned him, but before this everyone drove on it and got out okay (just not me). Those vans are really heavy with all the parts and equipment in them. He had to unload a bunch of heavy stuff to lighten the load before we started trying to get it out, and then I hope I made some points by helping carry it all down the driveway to where the van ended up. That stuff was heavy!

The other valve. The white sleeve contains the tubing with the propane and foam insulation.



The rocks are to stabilize it, and I'll add some more.






This is for a ground wire to the generator’s ground rod because lightning could hit the white propane pipe, perforate it, and cause an explosion. Good old Brian, he thinks of everything.

If we decide to keep the connecting arrangement, we can dig a trench and bury that ground wire and maybe consider burying the whole shebang. Easier said than done in this rocky soil, but could be done.

He didn't feel comfortable connecting the third tank because it's across a running stream, but if we are desperate, we'll figure out a way to pump that product into one of my other tanks. Of course I hope it doesn't come to that.