Propane for Home Heating
When the temperature drops, you will appreciate the warm, comfortable heat from a propane heating system.
These systems also pay for themselves in energy savings in a fraction of the time. Propane offers benefits for builders and installers too: there’s a propane heating system — from furnaces and wall heaters to fireplaces and direct vent heaters — to fit any size home, style of home, or floor plan.
Plus, propane heating systems are easy to install, take up minimal space, and will provide years of reliable service.
Direct Vent Heaters
Direct-Vent systems mount on an outside wall and have a vent-within-a-vent system to draw in outdoor air to support combustion and exhaust flue products to the outdoors. The vent cap installs on the outside wall of the home. Because they do not draw your already-heated room air to support combustion, Direct-Vent systems are among the most efficient of the vented heaters. A Direct-Vent system may be installed as your home’s primary heating system.
Almost any gas system can heat your home for a fraction of the cost of electric heat, but advanced technology drives these clean-burning wall furnaces to more than 80% efficiency.
Zone heating – using a gas-fired system in the room where you need the heat – is the most cost-effective way to improve the energy efficiency of a home undergoing remodeling or weatherization upgrades.
Ventless Heaters
Vent-Free systems draw room air to support combustion in a clean burning infrared radiant-plaque system. Infrared models produce a “radiant” heat that instantly adds warmth to you and objects in the room. Rated at 99.9 percent efficient, vent-free heaters release nearly all of the available heat energy into the room.
To ensure safe operation, all vent-free systems include an Oxygen Depletion Sensor (ODS) to automatically turn off the heater if room oxygen level drops to an unsafe level.
Vent-free systems are designed to provide supplemental heat and not recommended as a primary heat source.
Logsets and Fireplace Inserts
Homeowners today are cozying up to propane fireplaces. They offer both comfort and ambiance, along with high efficiency heating for the home.
Propane fireplaces offer homeowners true versatility. They can be installed indoors or out, are more energy efficient, environmentally friendly, convenient to use, and easier to install than wood-burning models. Plus, an attractive real flame brings warmth and ambiance to a living space, increasing its value with buyers. And many models can operate during electrical power outages, providing a critical source of heating to the home.
With the efficiency levels and controls offered by propane fireplaces, they are an excellent option to provide zone heating in a portion of a home.
High Efficiency Furnaces
A residential high efficiency propane furnace delivers significant value and a new level of distinctive comfort to today’s homeowners. They’re affordable, efficient, economical to operate, and kind to the environment.
A residential high efficiency propane furnace can provide exceptional space heating for both small floor plans and large custom homes.
The furnace’s PVC combustion air intake and sideways exhaust piping design allows the unit to be installed nearly anywhere in the house. And since all of the air used for combustion is taken directly from outdoors, they’re more efficient and safer than traditional natural-draft furnaces.
Over time, propane furnaces also maintain their efficiency better than systems like electric heat pumps. High efficiency propane furnaces are also very economical to operate, and were found to be the most affordable to purchase and install compared with alternative systems, like electric heat pumps and ground source heat pumps .
