Posted: January 13, 2025

Benefits of Propane for Heating Your Home

The fuel is known for its advantages

Propane can be used for all sorts of things throughout a North Carolina home or business. It can power a variety of appliances, warm water, ignite a non-wood burning fireplace and power an outdoor grill or indoor cooking range. On top of all that, the fuel is a great option when it comes to home heating.

How a propane-powered heating system is beneficial to your North Carolina home

The fact is that propane is superior in terms of performance and pretty much has no competition when it comes to efficiency. When it comes specifically to heating your home, this is clearly evident – just take a look at the below facts and figures:

• A furnace that is powered by propane often gets fuel efficiency ratings as high as 98.5%. Virtually all the fuel that is burned with a propane-powered heating system goes towards actually heating a home, leaving very little that goes to waste.
• A wood-burning fireplace will typically get an efficiency rating of about 15%. Propane fireplaces and gas log sets come in way above this – they typically receive efficiency ratings of 90% or more.

Plenty of other appliances and pieces of equipment become more efficient with propane as well. For example, propane water heaters have about double the recovery rate when compared to an electric model. Propane dryers are able to dry clothes at a much faster rate than electric dryers. When cooking on a propane-powered range there is a significantly shorter wait time for this range to warm up than there is with an electric stove.

This top-notch efficiency helps homeowners save both time and money on their energy costs, which is obviously a huge plus and benefit.

Additional benefits of using propane to heat your home

The benefits of propane don’t stop at efficiency. Propane is also:

• Clean-burning, non-toxic and environmentally friendly
• Better for indoor use and better for one’s health considering it produces a small amount of carbon emissions
• Very safe as a direct result of strict and specific rules and regulations that are put in place on both a state and federal level
• Reliable since any propane-powered appliance will continue to work even when you are experiencing a blackout
• Incredibly versatile, which is highly convenient to any and all homeowners

Residential propane services from K.B. Johnson Oil & Gas

Whether you are looking to heat your home with propane or are simply looking for a propane cylinder for your home’s outdoor grill, K.B. Johnson Oil & Gas can help. Take a look at all the propane services we offer homeowners in parts of Wake, Johnston, Harnett, Eastern Lee and Eastern Chatham Counties here in North Carolina:

• An automatic propane delivery service
• The option to buy or lease a propane tank
• Propane tank installation
• Wireless propane tank monitoring
• Propane cylinder refills at our office

K.B. Johnson is here to make the switch over to propane easy, efficient and smooth. Contact us today to learn more about the residential propane services we offer.