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Furnace & Leaks are biggest wasters of propane
In 7 years of fulltiming I can tell you that it hardly makes a difference whether you leave the 5 gallon water heater on 24/7 or just fire it off when you anticipate needing it. Water will stay warm about 6 hours after you turn the heater off. But it takes a lot more propane to heat water from 54 to 120 degrees than it does to maintain heat. My heater may turn fire off once or twice a day more often than a manually operated heater, but when it runs to maintain temperature it only runs for about 2 minutes as opposed to 5 to 7 minutes to heat a cold tank.
The new EB has the electric/gas option, but if you're using the microwave and have the fridge on electric, and the a/c fires off, and you put bread in the toaster, you might trip a breaker. If you're not dressed, it'll trip at the post!
The stove top and oven and even the refrigerator are all very frugal users of propane - but the furnace just sucks a 30# cylinder down to nothing in a couple of days.
Watching for leaks at the hoses is also very important. Sometimes event the regulator itself will go bad, but most times it's a simple fix - and as noted before - tape isn't as good a sealer as the liquid type. Figure you're going to reseal once every year or two just from travel vibration working stuff loose.
Paula
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Hi, I just re-filled both of my propane tanks; My 30lb tanks hold 7 gallons each. My two tanks lasted a week in South Dakota [a few years ago] in October with a high of 27 degrees and a low of zero degrees. This ran our stove top, and we left the water heater and furnace on 24/7. I usually set my furnace to 66 or 68 degrees. I will bump it up to 70 or 72 degrees in the morning for only one cycle and then turn it back down or off. We also use an oil filled heater at times. Leaving the furnace on all night at 75 degrees would be like using your trailer as a paint curing booth or something. Way too hot for us.
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