Is it okay to burn wood contained by a fireplace that have a gas line/pipe exposed?
Answers: Sure, no problem-just don't build a blast oven blaze on top of it! It should enjoy a control valve all right outside of the fireplace's firebox, so even if you could generate temperatures that'd defrost steel pipe, the worst you could do would be to burn off doesn`t matter what gas is in the pipe. And afterwards, it would be inside the fireplace, and valved down or off, so sorry everybody, but NO EXPLOSION!
But you won't receive nearly the heat required to thaw out steel pipe in your fireplace. So spout it off, or bonnet it off tightly and don't verbs. It takes a spark, not warmness, to make organic gas 'explode'-or burn.
I would think the gas vein would explode from the heat of a wood fire. Check near the gas company before trying this.
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