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The Inside Of Your Gas Fireplace Should Never Be Wet!

One of our Active Rain Friends, raised a very important part for your personal, home and fireplace safety regarding possible signs of moisture penetration from your gas fireplace chimney.
Thanks Jay for the excellent tips as usual.
Before I turn it on, I always look inside the glass front of a gas fireplace and the inside of your gas fireplace should never be wet!

Outside the house, a gas fireplace chimney flue should look something like this.
It would be metal, protrude from the siding, and not melt the siding around it.
It is connected directly to the fireplace flue.
Which is connected directly to the fireplace box!
It is a complete unit.  Typically the framing around it is wood, so the unit has to be tight, situated properly and there should be no way for heat to escape.
Similarly there should be no way for water to get in.
Looking inside this fireplace unit, behind and above the ceramic logs, clearly there is rust, staining and even peeling paint.
This leaking has been happening for a while!
When I pointed it out, my clients had a problem with this.
Their previous house had a similar problem!
Water had gotten ... more

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