Switching gas fireplace from utilities to a bottle?
Saturday, October 17th, 2009 at
9:35 pm
Dave asked:
I am connected to city natural gas, but the only appliance in my home that uses it is the gas fireplace. Since we’d only use that about three or four times a year I don’t want to pay the $5 monthly fee that the utilities company charges. The result is that the fireplace sits dormant because I don’t have the gas turned on.
So is there a way to hook this system to a bottle, then just fill the bottle with propane or natural gas and use it when I want to have a fire and never turn on the utilities?
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Filed under: Other - Home & Garden
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Well there probably is but a piece of advise here…The jets in your heater using natural gas are different to the ones used in a heater using bottled gas, and you sure as hell don’t want to become an Afgan terrorist and blow yourself up do you? And that’s what will happen…
Good luck
Depends if the fireplace is dual fuel. you will have to look in a the manual. or pull out the insert. it will indicate that somewhere. LP means propane.
Adding a tank and having it hooked up and filled will be over $500. Plus propane is alot more expensive than natural gas.
If you are Handy person and it is a duel fuel fireplace you could hook it up to a small 25lb propane tank i did this the first winter i had mine.
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Is it a gas fireplace with fake logs? or is it a real wood burning fireplace with a gas start? Either way, I would prolly just keep the gas shut off. If you only use it a few times a year than you won’t really miss it that much would you? If its a real fire place thats properly vented, you could just burn wood? or one of those duraflame logs that only burns for like 3 hours. If its not a fireplace that can burn wood, i would prolly just put some candles in it or something. I really dont like the idea of having propane bottles in the house.