We have an 80 year old home in the north east. We needed to add a heat source to our open basement with concrete floors and cinder block walls -where the temperature is consistently between ~55-58 year round. Electric space heaters were not cutting it. I decided to give this propane heater (Mr. Heater F299830 30k BTU) a try and very glad I did. It took minutes to get it all together and hooked up to a BBQ propane tank. I felt a surge of radiant heat immediately once I got it turned on…FANTASTIC!I read previous reviews carefully before purchasing the unit and related parts and recommend you do as well. My unit did not ship with a fitting to connect to the propane hose. Based on review recommendations, I purchased the F276262 3/8 inch connector and a 12 ft. hose w/ regulator to connect to BBQ tank (Mr. Heater 12-feet hose/assembly with Restricted flow soft nose P.O.L.). These parts work great. (TIP: the threads on the hose that connects to the tank are REVERSED!) However, you should consider where you will be placing the unit. If on floor, you may want to get a 90-degree connector. The inlet for the connector is on the bottom facing the ground. The unit on its feet only sits about 3 inches off the ground. Your hose would get pinched. To mitigate, you can mount the unit on the wall with the included bracket or set the unit on bricks/blocks to raise it off the ground a few additional inches to not pinch the hose. I have mine on two landscaping bricks currently but I will be mounting on the wall soon.My first propane heater – had absolutely no idea what my burn/draw rate would be. So for the first tank, I kept track. Started with a freshly-filled 4 lb BBQ tank. In total, the tank lasted 31 hours that spanned three consecutive calendar days. My first three hours were at setting 1, the remainder of the time was set between 1.5 and 2. There are 5 total heat settings on the dial. On setting 1, the temperature was about 68. On 1.5 was over 70 .. and setting 2 was 74.3 (TOASTY!). Temperature readings were taken from two positions – on my desk which is about 9 feet to the right of the heater and on a post about 12 feet in front. The heat absolutely radiates from this thing. You can feel the warmth on your skin from many feet away. The heat produced far exceeds that of my unreliable pellet stove!I was hooked on the unit within minutes of turning it on and quickly realized I didn’t want to run to fill tanks multiple times a week so I started looking for more permanent solutions. Propane companies would LOVE to lease you their tank. When they do, they lock you in to a high price of propane with a specific buy amount ($3.15 gallon * 180 gallon minimum/yr OR $100+ tank rental fee). If you can afford it, you can simply buy a tank and have it installed by the propane company or a handy man. When you own it, you’re free to shop around and get the best price at the time of fill-up. I’m going with the purchase option of a 120 gallon tank (holds 96 g. of propane/80% rule). The tank, the installation, the first fill-up, and the price of the unit + hose comes to $2K. If I rented the tank, would have been less than $1k.120 gallon tank holds 24-4 gallon BBQ tanks worth of propane. At my burn rate described above, I’m looking at 744 hours of warmth and comfort from 96 gallons. Estimating inhabiting the space for 13 hr/day which comes to about 390 hours per month – one fill-up will last ~57 days. (96g * $2.9 / 57) = $4.88 /day… which is actually a little less than what was added to my electric bill last month from trying to use 1500 watt space heaters.