Does anyone know the theory behind these things. Actually I want to know how to do it without spending $500-$1,000 per fireplace.
The gas burner is buried down in the bottom of a pile of shattered glass or lava rock and the fire burns ABOVE the pretty glass material and it doesn't soot up the fireplace. The fireplace stays a showplace all year round and doesn't require cleaning.
Why doesn't it burn back into the glass or lava?
The only clue I have is that one person told me that the deeper the burner is buried the better the oxygen will mix with the gas. This particular fireplace has a S.S. tray or container to hold the burner but most just place the material in the fireplace. There is a very limited thickness of decorative material covering the burner in the one in the pic.
So is it a style of burner or is it the fact that the gas permeates up through the glass mixing with the air.
I have the material to do the decorative material, but before I soot up a virgin fireplace I want to be sure I've got it right.
Why would anyone want a "decorative" white fireplace in the first place?
Put some real wood in there and go all Mandingo on that sucker.
I'm not really sure exactly what "going all Mandingo" entails, but I'm pretty sure I don't want you doing it in my home.
Still laughing.
Keith Tanner wrote: I'm not really sure exactly what "going all Mandingo" entails, but I'm pretty sure I don't want you doing it in my home.
Whatever you do don't google that
Keith Tanner wrote: I'm not really sure exactly what "going all Mandingo" entails, but I'm pretty sure I don't want you doing it in my home.
Make sure google safe search is off then search for "Mandingo". Good times.
References to the movie Mandingo aside (man, you must be old!), it's a whole lot easier to use with a gas fireplace and it's prettier & cleaner doing it this way.
You lay out a decorative base of colored glass or whatever and then your fireplace looks good all year round.
Anyone? Anyone? Buler? Buler?
Does no one know how they work?
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