Underground Propane Tank

[tatorhog]

Originally Posted by RedRaider56

We have propane at our house and the tank is buried. We've been in our house for almost 18 years and not one issue with it. The valve for the tank is above ground, so there shouldn't be any maintenance on the tank, unless it rusts through and starts leaking. The only electric appliances we have in the house are the AC units and washer/dryer. Everything else is propane.

The one thing I would suggest is to "buy" the tank vs. lease. If you lease it, you are usually tied into the propane provider that you are leasing the tank from. If you buy the tank you can shop around for the best propane deal.

I'm curious because I've honestly never seen a buried one.

Are you required to have two regulators on your line from your tank? And if so, is the one at the tank accessible with it buried?

And then for the pressure relief, I guess being underground is not going to be as subjected to the same environmental variables that could cause expansion...but do you still have the balloon for the safety indicator?