Wood Pipe
Is it okay to burn wood in a fireplace that has a gas line/pipe exposed?
We bought the house a few years ago and are wanting to use it this year for the first time. The fireplace has a chimney but had gas logs in it. We are wanting to burn real wood so we removed the gas logs and seen a gas line/pipe connected to the burner. I assume it is fire resistant but need some reassurance...
Sure, no problem-just don't build a blast oven blaze on top of it! It should have a control valve well outside of the fireplace's firebox, so even if you could generate temperatures that'd melt steel pipe, the worst you could do would be to burn off whatever gas is in the pipe. And then, it would be inside the fireplace, and valved down or off, so sorry everybody, but NO EXPLOSION!
But you won't get nearly the heat required to melt steel pipe in your fireplace. So valve it off, or cap it off tightly and don't worry. It takes a spark, not heat, to make natural gas 'explode'-or burn.
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