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CONSTRUCTION ·  PROPANE FOR TEMPORARY HEAT

Propane for temporary heat, from torch to bulk tank.

Cylinders fed to salamanders for the finishing trades, manifolded cylinders for the cure tent, 500 USWG bulk with a vapourizer for the big site running radiant heat across the envelope — across Waterloo, Kitchener, Cambridge, Stratford, Guelph, London, and Woodstock. Standing refills through the cold months, after-hours dispatch on the same number that answers during the day, and the operator-licensing question handled before the cold snap.

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01 / WHAT IT HEATS

Four shapes of propane heat on a construction site.

The same fuel runs through all of them; what changes is the supply method. Most sites end up with one or two of these, sometimes three. Your rep walks through which one (or which combination) fits the work.

  • Salamander on a finishing crew

    Drywall, paint, flooring, mechanical — the trades that need the building warm enough to do the work. A torpedo or salamander heater fed from a 100 lb cylinder beside it, hooked up by a CH-02-trained operator, swapped to a fresh cylinder when it runs down. The simple end of the page; the cylinder exchange comes out on the route.

  • Concrete cure and hoarding

    A pour goes down, the tarps go up, and the heat has to hold for the cure schedule. Radiant or indirect-fired heaters under hoarding for the cure days, fed from manifolded 100 USWG (420 lb) cylinders for a typical cure, or off a small bulk tank if the cure runs weeks. The cadence is built around the cure timetable, not the calendar.

  • Tiger torch and roofing torch

    Vapour-draw cylinders for torch-on roofing, paint stripping, frost-thaw on grade, and the everyday torch work that lives on a site through the cold months. Cylinders come full, swap for empties on the standing route, and the cabinet stays on the site through the season.

  • Bulk tank with vapourizer for the big site

    A 500 USWG horizontal tank with a vapourizer for the institutional, hospital, school, or distribution-centre build running radiant heat across a full enclosed envelope. The tank is delivered, sited per CSA B149.2 setbacks, filled on cadence through the cure season, and removed at job end. The supply is sized for sustained draw, not for a single cure.

EQUIPMENT + STORAGE · CSA B149.1 · CSA B149.2 · O. REG. 211/01
PROPANE SPEC · HD-5 (CAN/CGSB-3.14)

02 / THE OPERATOR LICENSING QUESTION

A propane construction heater needs a trained operator. The document is the CH-02 ROT.

SOURCEO. Reg. 215/01 · Fuel Industry Certificates
TSSA · administering authority
CH-02 ROT · Construction Heater
CH-SM1 / CH-SM2 · Service & Maintenance
Captured · 2026-05

The rule

Under Ontario Regulation 215/01 (Fuel Industry Certificates), anyone who connects, disconnects, or operates a propane construction heater on an Ontario site needs a Record of Training that authorizes the work. The construction-heater-specific ROT is the CH-02. The CH-SM1 and CH-SM2 cover service and maintenance on the heater itself. TSSA administers the regulation and enforces it.

The training

The CH-02 ROT is delivered through training recognized by TSSA — the Canadian Propane Association’s Propane Training Institute is the program most operators come through. The trained operator on a site is typically a GC site employee, a project HVAC tech, or a contracted propane fitter. The training covers safe connection, leak check, ventilation, and the everyday operating reality of a construction heater on a working site.

Who carries the responsibility

The site is responsible for ensuring the operator on the heater holds the CH-02 ROT. We supply the propane and the equipment under our side of the gate (CSA B149.2, O. Reg. 211/01, TDG for the delivery); the operator-licensing question lives with the GC. Your rep walks through the question with you on setup so it’s sorted before MOL or TSSA shows up, not when they show up.

03 / HOW WE HANDLE IT

What a construction propane account with us actually looks like.

One rep on the account year-round. Cylinders on swap or bulk on cadence, sized to the site. The CH-02 conversation happens once, on setup. The rest, below.

  • Cylinder exchange or bulk

    For small finishing-trade sites — four or fewer cylinder cabinets, no cabinet above 500 lb — the standard setup is cylinder exchange on a standing route. Cylinders come full, swap for empties, the cabinet stays on the site. Above that scale, or where uptime through a cure means a cylinder swap at 3 a.m. is a real exposure, the conversation moves to bulk. The cross-vertical reference for the cylinder-vs-bulk decision lives on the agriculture propane page; the construction operating reality is its own thing, and we walk through it on site.

  • Manifolded cylinder setup

    For sites that need more capacity than a single cylinder but aren’t at bulk-tank scale — a cure tent, a hoarded pour through cold week, a finishing trade across multiple floors — the answer is a manifolded cylinder setup. We install the manifold, supply the cylinders on swap, and document the setup. The trained operator on the site is responsible for the heater connection downstream; the manifold and the cylinders are ours.

  • 500 USWG tank with vapourizer

    For the big site running sustained radiant heat across an enclosed envelope, a 500 USWG horizontal tank with a vapourizer is the standard answer. We deliver the tank, site it per the CSA B149.2 setbacks (10 ft from buildings, property lines, ignition sources, and mechanical air intakes), fill on cadence, and remove the tank at job end. For sites larger than a single 500 USWG, the conversation moves to a 1,000 USWG or larger with the 25 ft setbacks that come with it.

  • Refill cadence through the cold months

    Keep-full service through November to April. Cold-snap top-ups when a polar-vortex week pushes the burn past the standing cadence. Pre-pour pre-fills before a slab goes down so the cure doesn’t start short. The after-hours line answers the same as the day shift through the season — the cure schedule doesn’t move because the rep went home.

INSTALLATION + STORAGE · CSA B149.1 · CSA B149.2 · O. REG. 211/01
OPERATOR · O. REG. 215/01 · CH-02 ROT (TSSA · CPA-PTI)
TRANSPORT + DRIVER · TDG ACT & REG. PART 6 · CSA B620
PROPANE SPEC · HD-5 (CAN/CGSB-3.14)

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04 / FOR YOUR OPERATION

Most construction propane accounts look like one of these three.

These are the shapes of construction operation where propane temporary heat tends to be the right fit in southwestern Ontario. Yours probably resembles one of them, or sits somewhere between two.

  • FINISHING TRADE · SALAMANDER

    The finishing trade with a salamander and a 100-pounder

    Drywall, paint, flooring, mechanical. One or two cylinders on the site, a salamander or torpedo heater hooked up by a CH-02-trained operator, the heater running through the workday so the cure or the work happens. Cylinders swap on the standing route; the cabinet stays.

    • Supply
      100 lb cylinder, exchange on route
    • Heat shape
      Salamander / torpedo, single space
    • Best when
      One or two heaters on a single floor
  • GC · WINTER POURS · HOARDING

    The GC running winter pours

    Concrete cure under hoarding, propane heat holding the slab through the cure days. Manifolded 100 USWG cylinders for a typical cure, a small bulk tank if the cure runs weeks. The cadence is built around the cure schedule and the weather — pre-pour pre-fill, mid-cure top-up, post-cure draw-down. The cure timetable doesn’t move because propane ran out.

    • Supply
      Manifolded cylinders or small bulk
    • Heat shape
      Radiant or indirect-fired under hoarding
    • Best when
      Winter pours on a real cure schedule
  • BIG SITE · FULL ENVELOPE · BULK

    The big-site contractor running the full envelope

    Institutional, hospital, school, or distribution-centre build, the envelope enclosed and held warm through the winter for the finishing trades to keep moving. A 500 USWG horizontal tank with a vapourizer (or larger), refill cadence through the season, the trained operator on the site running the heaters. The tank is delivered at the start of the cure season and removed when the work is done.

    • Supply
      500 USWG bulk with vapourizer
    • Heat shape
      Sustained radiant across the envelope
    • Best when
      Months of held heat through the season
05 / FAQ

Practical questions.

01Who is allowed to hook up a propane heater on our site?
Under Ontario Regulation 215/01, the operator on a construction heater needs a Record of Training. The construction-heater-specific ROT is the CH-02; the service-and-maintenance ROTs are the CH-SM1 and CH-SM2. The training is delivered through TSSA-recognized programs — the Canadian Propane Association’s Propane Training Institute is the program most operators come through. The trained operator on your site is typically a GC site employee, a project HVAC tech, or a contracted propane fitter. The site is responsible for ensuring the operator on the heater holds the ROT; TSSA enforces.O. REG. 215/01 · CH-02 ROT · TSSA / CPA-PTI
02How long will a 100 lb cylinder run our salamander?
It depends on the heater’s BTU rating and how hard you’re running it. A small radiant on a finishing crew on intermittent duty stretches longer than a high-output torpedo on a hoarded cure on full draw. The honest answer is that we size the cylinder cadence around your specific heater and the duty cycle you’re actually seeing, not a brochure number. After the first week the cadence is calibrated; before the first week it’s a conversation with the rep about what the heater is and what the site is doing.OPERATIONS
03When do we switch from cylinders to a bulk tank?
Two questions decide it. First, the scale: cylinder exchange is the right setup for a site running roughly four or fewer cylinder cabinets, none of them above 500 lb. Above that scale, the per-cylinder swap labour and the risk of an empty cylinder on a cure night both start to dominate. Second, the uptime: if a cylinder swap at 3 a.m. through a cure week is a real exposure, bulk is the right answer well before the scale alone would say so. The conversation usually settles on either manifolded cylinders or a 500 USWG bulk tank with a vapourizer, depending on the cure schedule.CSA B149.2 · KB DECISION FRAMEWORK
04Can we leave a bulk tank on the site through winter shutdown?
Yes. The tank doesn’t need to come off the pad for the season — most do not. Keep the tank in service, keep the cabinet locked, hold the propane level above the vapourizer’s draw envelope, and have someone check the tank every couple of weeks for the obvious things — the regulator, the cabinet, the lock, the vapourizer if it’s in place. We can run a winter-watch refill cadence and schedule a top-up before the crew comes back so the heaters are ready when the work starts again.CSA B149.2 · O. REG. 211/01
05What happens if a cylinder runs out at 3 a.m. on a cure night?
The after-hours dispatch line answers at 3 a.m. — that is what the after-hours line is for. The truck rolls as soon as the call comes in. The variable in a four-hour window is whether the road and weather will let a tanker through to the site at that hour; the rest is logistics we already know how to run. The way most accounts avoid the 3 a.m. call in the first place is a cadence with enough slack that a heavier-than-usual cure night doesn’t run a cylinder dry. That conversation is part of setting the account up, and it happens again whenever the cure schedule shifts.24/7 EMERGENCY DISPATCH
06What setbacks do we need to respect for the tank on the site?
For an aboveground tank between 125 and 500 USWG, CSA B149.2 sets a 10 ft (3 m) minimum from buildings, property lines, ignition sources, and mechanical air intakes. For 1,000 USWG and larger, the setback steps up to 25 ft (7.5 m) from the same. Underground tanks have their own setbacks, with stricter rules around private wells. On a tight urban site, the siting conversation happens on the walkthrough — the rep walks the planned tank position against the Code with whoever is going to live with it, before the tank is delivered.CSA B149.2 · O. REG. 211/01
NEXT STEP ·  SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO

Tell us about the site and the cure schedule.

A named rep takes the call, not a queue. Tell us where the site is, what the heat is for, and how the cure or the work runs through the cold months. We can usually settle the cylinder-or-bulk question and the operator-licensing question in one conversation, before the first cold snap shows up.

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05 / COVERAGE ·  SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO · 9 REGIONS

Across southwestern Ontario, by named rep.

Standing routes across nine regions. Same rep year-round; off-hours emergency dispatch through the same number.

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