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LP gas board | comments & reviews
by: R DeWayne Whiddon
s I sit here writing this article, winter please remind your customers and the general
has finally come to Alabama with public to be extremely careful You are the
a vengeance With the bitter cold trained professionals What you do is a highly
Aand biting windchills, people will be specialized skill and not just anyone off the street
doing some extraordinary things to keep not only is capable of performing your jobs It is our duty
themselves but their pets warm as well This can to do our best to keep the public as safe as we
create some dangerous situations that would not can in spite of themselves
normally come into play The general public can The next quarterly meeting of the Alabama
get amazingly creative at times, as I’m sure we LP-Gas Board will be January 12, 2023, at 10:00
have all seen a m at 770 S McDonough St, Montgomery, AL
People will use the “Mr Heater” cylinder- You are encouraged to visit the Board’s website
mounted style heaters in barns and attached at www lpgb alabama gov for more news and
garages to keep pets warm Often, people just information that will certainly be of benefit.
attach them to the cylinder and sit the cylinder You are also encouraged to visit us here at the
directly on the ground next to a straw bed for board’s offices at 777 S. Lawrence Street Suite
their pet This leads to the animals knocking them 100, Montgomery, AL In closing, I hope the New
over and causing fires from the hot parts, even Year brings prosperity, peace, and happiness to
when they are equipped with automatic shut-off each of you!■
devices They will also use them in greenhouses
to keep plants warm I have even seen them
used to keep pipes from freezing The heaters
are placed at the opening of a crawl space and
pointed towards the pipes without thinking about DSS7
Dual Second-Stage Regulator
clearance issues or the amount of radiant heat
that these heaters produce The revolutionary DSS7 regulators offer a new
People will also do things to stay warm level of safety to the industry by shutting off flow
without thinking of the dangers that they are to the building if it detects an unsafe overpressure
exposing themselves to I have seen people condition or if the container runs out of propane.
bring those same “Mr Heater-style” heaters
inside a double-wide mobile home when their • Superior stability and
performance
furnace stopped working In fact, I just recently • Outlet connection has
a sensing tube which
noticed a permit holder that fills cylinders as a monitors the
side business using a cylinder and an outdoor downstream
pressure
standup-style heater inside his storefront This • Has a 'slam shut'
permit holder has a retail store that sales other shutoff device
• For domestic and
products unrelated to propane, but it is not an light commercial
applications
industrial type of business The permit holder does
sell that style of heater, as well Now, this is a
propane professional that is supposed to instruct
consumers on the “proper handling” of propane,
and yet they are violating two state regulations
regarding propane, blatantly
I mention all these stories to remind
everyone to please be careful this winter and bergquistinc.com | 800.448.9504
especially during the extreme cold Furthermore,
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