brand new here, and brand new to fireplaces. we bought a home last year with everything natural gas: heat, stove and fireplace. when we moved in, the previous owners (here for 20 years) said the fireplace “needed a new igniter.”
i didn’t bother with it last year, just used the baseboards and a space heater, but i’d like to get the fireplace going.
i took off all the logs and vacuumed it out, dusted it off, shined it up (just water and a rag (no flammables).
i get a spark when i push the igniter. i don’t smell or hear gas when i press the pilot in.
there is a gas line going from behind the insert into the concrete below the fireplace (a small rectangular metal flap) and i don’t see any shut off valve down there.
the fireplace is directly above my furnace room, so i’m guessing it runs to there and that’s where i’ll find the shutoff, but i can’t see the line from the insert coming in there, nor do i see a red or blue valve for it.
i do have an old fashioned turn key on the outside of the fireplace mantel, but that operates the doors to allow air from the chimney (do they call it a flue ?)
so i guess i’m asking where the heck the gas shutoff is. i’ve read that a gas fireplace requires two shutoffs, one within 6 feet of the fireplace and one somewhere else.
i didn’t bother with it last year, just used the baseboards and a space heater, but i’d like to get the fireplace going.
i took off all the logs and vacuumed it out, dusted it off, shined it up (just water and a rag (no flammables).
i get a spark when i push the igniter. i don’t smell or hear gas when i press the pilot in.
there is a gas line going from behind the insert into the concrete below the fireplace (a small rectangular metal flap) and i don’t see any shut off valve down there.
the fireplace is directly above my furnace room, so i’m guessing it runs to there and that’s where i’ll find the shutoff, but i can’t see the line from the insert coming in there, nor do i see a red or blue valve for it.
i do have an old fashioned turn key on the outside of the fireplace mantel, but that operates the doors to allow air from the chimney (do they call it a flue ?)
so i guess i’m asking where the heck the gas shutoff is. i’ve read that a gas fireplace requires two shutoffs, one within 6 feet of the fireplace and one somewhere else.
