9 years ago I moved into a nice neighborhood that was a big step up from our old townhouse. Included with the modern kitchen, hardwood floors, and two car garage was a nice gas fireplace.

Well, less than 6 months after moving in, it ran out of gas. It took me 5 years to ever getting around to doing something about it, but here has been my experience over the last 4 years.

- Several calls and emails to have the gas guy never show up.
- Repeated this process a couple of years later.
- Mountain of paper work.
- Tank needs a new regulator.
- Logs need to be replace. Tank on its last legs.
- $300 on new logs turns into $1000 and and entire weekend.
- Installation requires several hours, yelling, and youtube videos
- A couple of years later the power in our house goes out (including heat) so we pull up next to the fireplace. It shuts off in a half an hour. Out of gas!
- Tanks has leak. Buy a new tank for $500.
- New person managing the account. Add another month of calls and emails.
- Can't have a tank next to a dryer vent. I have to pay to have a new line installed and move the tank.


And now.....I finally get the thing filled, and it fails its leak check.


I'm in for about $2K on this thing already, plus countless of hours of work. Is that what we call pot committed? How much to fix the leak?

I had no idea you would have a gas fireplace with a tank. I thought you had to have natural gas run to the house. Interesting.

Was doing some research. I saw that the pilot will allegedly burn a 4 pounds every 6 days. I'm thinking I may want to keep the pilot off until I need it.