Bulk propane on a standing route across nine counties — for grain dryers, livestock barns, rural homes, concrete cures, greenhouses, forklifts, and back-up generators. HD-5 spec, Petro-Canada wholesale-marketer chain, named rep on the account year-round.
Propane is the same product wherever you burn it — what changes is the size of the tank and the cadence of the delivery. The spec is CAN/CGSB-3.14, the supply is the Plains Midstream Sarnia NGL fractionator, and the chain into southwestern Ontario is the Petro-Canada wholesale-marketer network.
SPEC · HD-5 PROPANE · CAN/CGSB-3.14
SUPPLY · PLAINS MIDSTREAM SARNIA NGL FRACTIONATOR · PETRO-CANADA WHOLESALE-MARKETER CHAIN
The right size follows the draw, the storage rules on the lot, and how much slack the operation wants between fills. Sizing is the conversation that happens at new service — the rep walks the property, reads the consumption math, and recommends the size the operation will live with for five-plus years.
SOURCE · CSA B149.2 · O. REG. 211/01
Minimum 10 ft (3 m) from the nearest building, from the property line, from any ignition source, and from a mechanical air intake — including heat-pump and air-conditioner condensers. Most residential 500 USWG placements settle into a corner of the lot a reasonable walk from truck access; on a farm or a site, the equivalent walk is from the tanker’s spot to the tank.
Minimum 25 ft (7.5 m) from the same list. The larger setback is the structural reason most residential accounts run a 500 USWG tank rather than a 1,000 — the lot has to give 25 ft of breathing room. On a rural farm or an industrial site this is rarely a constraint; on a tight urban infill, it can rule out the larger size and push the conversation toward two paired 500s.
Underground tanks from 250 to 1,000 USWG are a real option where the property prefers the look, wants the tank out of the snow, or has setback geometry that aboveground placement can’t solve. Setback to the building drops to 10 ft on tanks up to 2,000 USWG; setbacks to private wells stay stricter (25 ft for tanks under 2,000, 50 ft for larger). Underground tanks cost more up front and carry a periodic anode-bag check, but they handle Ontario winters without the homeowner watching the cylinder beside the house.
New propane service starts with a site walk — the installer and the rep confirm where the tank can sit, how the line will run to the appliances, how the tanker will reach the fill point on a deep-snow morning, and whether the lot supports the size the consumption math points at. The setback table doesn’t have to be read by the customer; the assessment is what translates the rules onto the property.
Any underground propane line is buried at 18 inches minimum (24 inches under a driveway), routed without right angles, and kept clear of other utilities. Ontario One Call is the no-cost locate service that flags existing buried utilities before any digging — the call goes in three working days before line work starts. The contractor handles the locate; the customer sees the paint marks on the lawn the morning before the trench opens.
One rep on the account year-round. Coloured diesel, clear diesel, DEF, and lubricants on the same conversation if the operation runs them too. After-hours dispatch through the same number that answers during the day.
DELIVERY · KEEP-FULL · K-FACTOR
DISPATCH · 519 743 3669 · AFTER-HOURS · AFTER_HOURS_TBD
HD-5 is HD-5 — but the size of the tank, the rhythm of the deliveries, and the regulatory shape around the install change between a farm, a home, and a construction site. The three vertical pages carry the application-specific detail.
Grain dryers through the September–December peak, livestock barn heat year-round, greenhouse heat plus CO₂ enrichment in Norfolk and Brant. Paired 1,000 USWG tanks are the common dryer setup; bigger operations add a third for redundancy. Pre-position discipline starts in August.
Primary-heat furnaces and boilers on rural properties off the gas grid. Standard sizing for a 1,500–3,000 sq ft home is a 500 USWG horizontal tank with two to four fills a year on auto-fill. Larger homes step up to 1,000 USWG. The 10-year inspection rule applies across every supplier.
Salamanders on finishing trades, manifolded cylinders for cure-tent hoarding, 500 USWG with a vapourizer for the big site running radiant across the envelope. The CH-02 ROT operator-licensing question is the unique construction shape — the trained operator on the site is the GC’s responsibility, not the supplier’s.
Most accounts have these handled at install. The page names them so they don’t turn into surprises later — and so the questions you ask the next time a tank goes in, you ask early.
O. REG. 211/01 · TSSA FS-271-24 · ECCC E2 PLAN · SOR/2025-107
CSA B149.1 · CSA B149.2 · CAN/CGSB-3.14
Tell us where the propane is going — the dryer, the barn, the furnace, the cure tent — and what your draw looks like. We’ll size the program around it and sort diesel, DEF, and lubricants on the same conversation if they run on the same operation.
Standing routes across nine regions. Same rep year-round; off-hours emergency dispatch through the same number.
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