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Five folders, from the fill pipe to the furnace

Heating oil5
Propane4
Tanks and gauges6
Switching and backup4
Safety and outages5

Smell propane? Get everyone out, then call 911 and your supplier from outside. CO alarm? Out first, then 911.Propane odor or CO alarm? Everyone outdoors first.

Picture Sources

Fill Pipe's photographs all come from Wikimedia Commons, used under the license each author chose, and the drawings and charts were made for this site.

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Photographs

Each entry gives the photo's number, what it shows, the author as named on Commons, the license and a link to the original file. Every photo was cropped to a 3:2 frame, resized and converted to WebP. Where a maker's name, a logo, a company's lettering or a house number showed, it was removed or blurred so no brand or address appears on these pages; those changes are listed with the photo. Nothing else was altered.

  • Photo 9. Black oval oil tank on steel legs against an unfinished basement wall. By Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection. License: CC BY 2.0. Original file.
  • Photo 10. Close view of a painted cast iron radiator under a window sill in warm light. By Daderot. License: CC0. Original file.
  • Photo 11. Plug-in carbon monoxide alarm on a wall showing 0 on its display. By City of Detroit. Public domain. Original file. Edited: maker logo removed.
  • Photo 12. Wall-mounted ductless indoor unit with its louver open. By Dinkun Chen. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Original file. Edited: maker name removed, labels blurred.
  • Photo 13. Brick two-story farmhouse among bare trees in late winter. By Nyttend. Public domain. Original file.
  • Photo 14. Outdoor faucet on a brick wall with a column of ice running from the spout down the pipe to the ground. By Paul van de Velde from Netherlands. License: CC BY 2.0. Original file.
  • Photo 15. White mini-split heat pump outdoor unit on a dark pad between two trimmed shrubs beside a gray house wall. By Tony Webster. License: CC BY 4.0. Original file. Edited: maker badge removed.
  • Photo 16. Heat pump outdoor unit raised on two plastic stands on a brick patio beside a white clapboard wall. By Arnt Brandseth. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Original file. Edited: maker badges removed, label blurred.
  • Photo 17. Heat pump outdoor unit hung on galvanized wall brackets well above the ground on a pale board-and-batten wall. By Øyvind Holmstad. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Original file. Edited: maker badges and installer sticker removed.
  • Photo 18. Gray clapboard cape with red shutters and a large white horizontal propane tank on the lawn in front of a hedge. By Nyttend. Public domain. Original file. Edited: house number blurred.
  • Photo 19. Trees bent and glazed with ice across a town green after the 1998 ice storm in Vermont. By State Agency. Public domain. Original file.
  • Photo 20. Long icicles hanging from a snow-covered roof edge down a red clapboard wall beside a round outdoor thermometer. By tracy from north brookfield,Massachusetts, usa. License: CC BY 2.0. Original file.
  • Photo 21. A row of gray cape-style houses under deep snow at the edge of tall pines in Maine. By Paul VanDerWerf from Brunswick, Maine, USA. License: CC BY 2.0. Original file.
  • Photo 22. Blue floor-standing oil boiler in an old whitewashed basement. By Wusel007. License: CC BY-SA 3.0. Original file. Edited: maker badge removed, labels blurred.
  • Photo 23. Red oil burner mounted on the front of a blue boiler on a dusty basement floor. By ZngZng. License: CC BY-SA 3.0. Original file. Edited: maker plate and labels blurred.
  • Photo 24. Dark oil stain spread across the floor of a fieldstone basement in front of an old oil tank. By Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection. License: CC BY 2.0. Original file.
  • Photo 25. Blue horizontal steel fuel tank on a frame under spruce trees. By Santeri Viinamäki. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Original file.
  • Photo 26. A man starting a portable generator on a concrete pad out in a fenced backyard. By U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Public domain. Original file.
  • Photo 27. White 20-pound propane cylinder with its valve and collar. By Hustvedt. License: CC BY-SA 3.0. Original file.
  • Photo 28. Propane bobtail delivery truck stopped at a crosswalk in a brick downtown. By Artaxerxes. License: CC BY 4.0. Original file. Edited: company lettering, license plate and signs blurred; lower half only.
  • Photo 29. White horizontal propane tank behind red steel bollards in a mulched bed. By FASTILY. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Original file. Edited: business sign cropped out.
  • Photo 30. Small horizontal propane tank on a concrete pad beside a split-rail fence and bare trees in late autumn. By Corey Coyle. License: CC BY 3.0. Original file.
  • Photo 31. Large white horizontal propane tank with a blue dome cover on a pad among ferns and evergreens. By Rick Obst. License: CC BY 2.0. Original file.
  • Photo 32. Close view of a heavily rusted. By Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection. License: CC BY 2.0. Original file.
  • Photo 33. A crane lifting an old steel tank out of a dug-up yard on a gray winter day while a worker watches from the edge. By ENERGY.GOV. Public domain. Original file. Edited: archive number blurred.
  • Photo 34. Two black oval oil tanks side by side in a basement. By Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection. License: CC BY 2.0. Original file.
  • Photo 35. Workers in hard hats beside a silver propane tank lifted out of the ground next to a utility truck. By USEPA Environmental-Protection-Agency. Public domain. Original file.
  • Photo 36. Vermont dairy farm with a silo and barns under light snow below a wooded hillside. By Patrick from Moretown, VT, United States. License: CC BY 2.0. Original file.
  • Photo 37. White Vermont farmhouse with two chimneys in deep snow. By Artaxerxes. License: CC BY-SA 3.0. Original file.

Illustrations and charts

Pictures captioned "Illustration" (numbers 1 to 8) were drawn for Fill Pipe with an image generator in a linocut style. They show no real house, product or person's property, and they carry no third-party rights. The tally-board infographics were generated the same way from figures already on each page, and every label, number and source line on them was checked against the page's sources before publishing.

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