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We had our fireplace rebuilt, and the mason put in a new pipe that he said would be good for wood or gas logs. He finalized everything, and placed the lava rock and ceramic logs. But, the flame are only showing between the two big base logs, none in front or behind. And, mostly in one place. You can see the blue flame in the picture. We have a tray with a different pipe and sand that came with the log and grate kit. I'm wondering if it'll look better if we swapped for that. If you need pictures to understand what I'm trying to say, I'll see if I can get some later.
I had the same problem when converting mine. The pipes have been subjected to repeated extreme heat and cooling cycles and will be difficult to unthread.
Your best bet is to soak with penetrating oil (slide some cardboard under prior to spraying so you don't soak the bricks). Soak repeatedly and tap the pipes frequently to help the oil penetrate into the threads. Always use two pipe wrenches, one to "back up" the fitting to reduce stresses on the rest of the assembly. You may also find that heating the fitting with a small propane torch will expand it a bit, facilitating removal (keep a water spray bottle handy in case the residual penetrating oil flames up, and never spray oil while the lit torch is near).
just cut the vertical stub pipe off with a pipe cutter or sawzall, file flat and smooth and then re-thread it with a pipe die head for whatever size pipe it is.
House is about 30 years old, has a gas fireplace with gas logs. The old set up had a regulator with pilot and flame adjustment. Flame was inconsistent, suspect the regulator was worn out, and the built-in electric starter is no good anymore. Natural gas. The replacement burner has all the proper fittings, just going to connect it straight to the gas line in the fireplace. Will be a manual start with a flame or match, no remote or anything fancy like that. Anyone encounter any problems when doing this on their own? I’m OK with working with gas lines.
So as the title states I'm doing research for a natural gas fire pit. I have a gas line for my pool heater near where I want to build the fire pit so I planned on extending this for the fire pit (my BIL is a plumber so he would help with gas piping). After looking into it, it seems way more expensive to build my own with landscape blocks, purchase a burner table, burner controls, burner than to just by one already assembled. Am I going about this wrong?
See links I am referencing:
52 landscape blocks for a 36" firepit
38" burner table
30" burner
I’m well over a thousand dollars and this isn’t even including the rocks to fill the pan, material for gas pipe, etc. Anyone have experience with this?