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so i bought a fireplace a few years ago for my house. its a nice fireplace. my problem is that even at max output the flame isnt high or dramatic enough. i want more action. ill post up where its at now. a friend is putting in an outdoor fire thing and he said he was having something like this custom made that is supposed to put out double the flame using half the gas. anyone have any experience either with a burner of this style or replaces their burner with one of this style? id have to be able to swap out the old one for this new one.
I've had gas fireplaces in previous homes and my gripe with them is that they looked like burners on stoves rather than true fireplaces. They're just boring to look at. If I had stayed in those homes longer I would have had them removed but we moved on. Do you have the option of replacing the fireplace with a true wood burning one? I know it's not pc to have wood burning fireplaces now and they're also not allowed in some area but they are gorgeous to look at and the smell of freshly burning wood on an evening walk is lovely.
call a fireplace company so they can steer me to where they want to vs where i really want to be? i dont trust service providers enough to go into the situation without already knowing what i want.
I've had gas fireplaces in previous homes and my gripe with them is that they looked like burners on stoves rather than true fireplaces. They're just boring to look at. If I had stayed in those homes longer I would have had them removed but we moved on. Do you have the option of replacing the fireplace with a true wood burning one? I know it's not pc to have wood burning fireplaces now and they're also not allowed in some area but they are gorgeous to look at and the smell of freshly burning wood on an evening walk is lovely.
i agree that a real wood burning fireplace is nicer but its also more work and more mess. i like the gas burning enough to keep it and not replace it with wood. ill use wood outside for the firepit.
call a fireplace company so they can steer me to where they want to vs where i really want to be? i dont trust service providers enough to go into the situation without already knowing what i want.
Okay. I guess you know more about them than I do. I trust the local company here to do what I pay them to do.
I've had gas fireplaces in previous homes and my gripe with them is that they looked like burners on stoves rather than true fireplaces. They're just boring to look at. If I had stayed in those homes longer I would have had them removed but we moved on. Do you have the option of replacing the fireplace with a true wood burning one? I know it's not pc to have wood burning fireplaces now and they're also not allowed in some area but they are gorgeous to look at and the smell of freshly burning wood on an evening walk is lovely.
I would definitely NOT want a wood-burning fireplace in my house. Been there done that. Never again. Too messy, and the smell afterwards is horrid. No thanks. The smell is great at a campfire - not so much in the house.
Well, you could drill out the little holes in the burner a little bit and see what happens. You could plug some of the holes and see if it would increase the gas velocity out of the other holes. Or you could crank up the gas pressure at the regulator on your gas meter (not recommended!!!)
You could open up the gas valve a bit more. Gas flow is adjustable.
Maybe you need to change your gas meter. I had to change my meter when the shop had heat installed so the gas meter would get more gas through.
If you increase the size of the flame you will increase the amount of heat produced, so just be careful that you don't exceed the capacity to handle heat of both the fire pit and the wall it is sitting in. You might have to increase the heat shielding.
Maybe what you need is to add a centrifugal blower. I mean, what says "warm and cozy" like your entire fireplace and surround glowing cherry red? As an added bonus, if you ever need to do any copper smelting, you're good to go.
In all honesty, I wouldn't do anything that could increase the heat output, not unless you fancy burning out the flue and all kinds of other bad stuff that could happen. Google "chimney fire" and I bet you'll see some interesting pictures of embers.
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