It does not spread through the air.

In addition to this bit of advice, have you considered leaving the tanks in place? If they are underground, I believe they can be filled with something inert, or so I have been told, and left in place. Unless you plan to keep your house forever, the next owner might want to have the option for propane for cooking, or backup electricity generation, or maybe just a redundant heat source--just in case.

Just made this switch recently too. We contacted the propane company since they owned the tank and they came and removed the tank within a few days. Within a week we recieved a check in the mail for the remaining propane in the tank.

There was no chrge for the tank removal. This was Fyles Bros. in Orwell.

Water is heavier than gas. So there is always water in a storage tank but it’s below the fill pipe. After each delivery usually the tanks get “stuck” to check for water levels. If the water gets close to the fill pipe the computer system should automatically shut the entire station down. There’s a reason you don’t have this happen a lot and you don’t hear about it constantly on the news. Their are multiple redundancies built into the system. Ha being someone come and check for water content therefore usually never results in concrete findings. I go on these calls regularly and never find anything.

If there was water in the gas there would definitely be a line of a hundred dead cars at the parking lot. Most likely after the snowstorm people got water in their tanks from snow. Do you have an older car? Throw in a bottle of dry gas from time to time after a large snowstorm or rainstorm. Mechanics will say anything to make a buck…

The show is a great respite from the great of winter.
The show is not huge, so expect to get an hour or two before you head off for your next adventure.
Enjoy!

Heat pumps are great.

However, manufacturers are still developing and fine tuning heat pumps for cold markets. This is not a mature product category yet.

As a result, parts are hard to come by as manufacturers make major changes from year to year in their product lines. Many lesser brand units will be functionally obsolete in less than 10 years as part support will not exist.

Only purchase heat pumps from big name manufacturers and use an established local company that plans to be in business when you need service and maintenance.

Good luck finding service for your heat pump if the installer is no longer in business.

This might sound stupid, I don't know a lot about cars....I recently brought my Subaru in for an issue. My tank was pretty low. That mechanic told me that in the winter I shouldn't let my tank get low because I'll get condensation in my tank which would contaminate the gas and hurt my car. Maybe the station's underground tanks do the same when they get to a certain level?

Seriously. I was weak for a long time after. Still not right.

You were able to hire someone to sell you and install heat pumps but you don’t know how to call your fuel provider and cancel their service? Really?

Wrong, we were in the slow lane.

I was the passenger.

It’s not the labor as much as the parts. They’re are made in short runs and the parts are hard to get. At least that’s what the company is telling us.

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If they’re anything like the Vt health inspectors, I wouldn’t hold my breath for them to fix anything.

I will definitely look into it, probably would help cover the hours of work I had to miss afterwards too since I was on break when it happened.

The court part might only take a day but there will be hours and hours of commitment before you ever get there.

Actually it's likely the the additives would help prevent phase separation and keep water in solution where it will run through the engine pretty harmlessly.

I just buy whatever gas the station sells at the correct octane rating for my vehicle (good ol' 87), but the additives in the goofy branded gas would probably have helped in this case.

I know labor is short and all, but how could it possibly take 6-8 months to get a heat pump serviced??

Then it's even more wild that this place has dozens of complaints!

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What a fiasco!

(love your username)

You would be suing for the cost of the auto repair, the cost of the gas, court filing fees, and any other associated costs. Seems worth the time to me. Here's some info on getting started with small claims court: https://vtlawhelp.org/roadmap/small-claims/step-1

Suing them would give them consequences and help stop it happening from others.

It'll only shoot as much as it would shoot gas. Nowhere near enough to cause hydrolock. If your injectors are dumping in that much water they'd dump in that much fuel. Fuel will hydrolock an engine just as well as water.

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Why is it always out of state plates off the road in the median?