A Canadian Coast Guard ship patrolled offshore at sunrise to make sure nothing would go wrong. Today was the final chapter in the propane fireplace odyssey, and it won't be mentioned again, I promise. Second only to the complete excavation of the house foundation, this has been the most complicated and expensive part of the 7-year redo of this fixer-upper.
The Sparling truck arrived fashionably late but luckily ours was the first stop of a long day for the installers. At the bottom of the hill a 1000 litre tank was rolled in, positioned, and hooked up. At the top of the hill the other end of the buried yellow line was risered, anchored, regulated, manifolded, pressure-tested, and signed off.
On a sunny afternoon the fire had to be turned up full for the initial burn. But the forecast for tonight is a chilly 3C --- we'll see how this heat compares to a woodfire. And any of you who remember that old drafty woodburner of years ago, don't worry ---- you won't have to get out of the sleeping bag in the middle of the night to throw a log on the embers. Who knew that passing gas would be so much fun?
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