Bulk propane on a standing route through Waterloo Region and Wellington, Perth, and Oxford counties — for grain dryers, livestock barns, rural homes, greenhouses, and forklifts. 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 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.
New propane service starts with a site walk: where the tank can sit, 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.
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, an answering service passes emergencies to on-call staff.
DELIVERY · KEEP-FULL · K-FACTOR
OFFICE · 519 743 3669
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 and a home. The two vertical pages carry the application-specific detail.
Grain dryers through the September–December peak, livestock barn heat year-round, greenhouse heat plus CO₂ enrichment. 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.
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 B149.2 · CAN/CGSB-3.14
A propane run-out that disables the parlour clean-in-place (CIP) wash is regulatory exposure under the Ontario Milk Act and Reg. 761: pickup is refused if CIP cleaning has not occurred to spec. The wash that has to happen before the next milking is propane-dependent.
On livestock operations, set the auto-deliver trigger above 30% rather than the residential 20–25% default, so deliveries can be scheduled around milk pickup days and biosecurity restrictions. On a multi-tank manifolded system, monitor the main feed line, not just one tank.
The NFACC 2016 Poultry Code guideline is 30–34°C at bird level for broiler chickens in days 1–7, lowered by 2–3°C each week, and 32–35°C for turkeys. The Requirement itself is observational: bird behaviour must be observed and corrective action taken if birds show thermal discomfort.
Tell us where the propane is going — the dryer, the barn, the furnace — 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.
Two offices, in Waterloo (155 Roger Street) and London (660 Clarke Road). Delivery across four counties and the cities of London and St. Thomas, with our own cardlocks in Waterloo, Guelph and Stratford. After hours, calls go to an answering service that passes emergencies to on-call staff.
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