A gas exterior fireplace. Isn’t that akin to running your air conditioner outside? Or using bottled water to wash your tub? Using hot water for ice cubes? Please tell me this is for a restaurant and not a home.
If it’s a B-vent fireplace you need to follow the building code for flues – 6 feet above neighboring construction within 10 feet or something like that. If it’s direct vent, you don’t (I think). Also, check zoning – I don’t think a fireplace/chimney is a permitted obstruction in a rear yard unless it’s within 3 feet of the building. Not applicable though if it’s on the roof.
The snarkiness on this site can be irritating. You have no idea what my carbon footprint is. I don’t use air conditioners (I do have ceiling fans and want to install a whole house fan) and am amazed when I walk around on temperate evenings and hear the whine of air conditioners. I would guess that the energy someone to run central air for a month will approximate the natural gas energy I’ll use for an outdoor fireplace over the next 5-10 years.
DIBS: have there really been recent discoveries of natural gas, or are you referring to the shale drilling that has the potential to threaten NYC’s water supply??
NY Times:
Proposed Gas Drilling Upstate Raises Concerns About Water Supply
toast, if you knew anything about natural gas you’d know that the price has plummetted back to 2002 levels and there have been recent dicoveries of millions & millions of cu ft.
Maybe the OP doesn’t have a car so his/her carbon footprint is smallt to begin with. 🙂
ah.. natural gas. Big difference. I suppose would need permit to run gas line, etc.
And regarding a woodburning outside as opposed to inside – is that chimneys do vent above houses into open. To burn wood in backyard – would be dispensing smoke into everyone’s windows and backyards as usually just 1 big enclosed courtyard.
A gas exterior fireplace. Isn’t that akin to running your air conditioner outside? Or using bottled water to wash your tub? Using hot water for ice cubes? Please tell me this is for a restaurant and not a home.
If it’s a B-vent fireplace you need to follow the building code for flues – 6 feet above neighboring construction within 10 feet or something like that. If it’s direct vent, you don’t (I think). Also, check zoning – I don’t think a fireplace/chimney is a permitted obstruction in a rear yard unless it’s within 3 feet of the building. Not applicable though if it’s on the roof.
toast,
The snarkiness on this site can be irritating. You have no idea what my carbon footprint is. I don’t use air conditioners (I do have ceiling fans and want to install a whole house fan) and am amazed when I walk around on temperate evenings and hear the whine of air conditioners. I would guess that the energy someone to run central air for a month will approximate the natural gas energy I’ll use for an outdoor fireplace over the next 5-10 years.
DIBS: have there really been recent discoveries of natural gas, or are you referring to the shale drilling that has the potential to threaten NYC’s water supply??
NY Times:
Proposed Gas Drilling Upstate Raises Concerns About Water Supply
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/nyregion/19drill.html?_r=1&scp=10&sq=new%20york%20water%20gas&st=Search
toast, if you knew anything about natural gas you’d know that the price has plummetted back to 2002 levels and there have been recent dicoveries of millions & millions of cu ft.
Maybe the OP doesn’t have a car so his/her carbon footprint is smallt to begin with. 🙂
This just seems like the worst time to start thinking of new unnecessary ways to burn up more of natural resources.
There are probably limits on how close it can be to a structure or fence.
ah.. natural gas. Big difference. I suppose would need permit to run gas line, etc.
And regarding a woodburning outside as opposed to inside – is that chimneys do vent above houses into open. To burn wood in backyard – would be dispensing smoke into everyone’s windows and backyards as usually just 1 big enclosed courtyard.
Here’s an outdoor gas-fired fireplace accepted by the DoB:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dob/downloads/pdf/587-06-e.pdf
Nothing at all noxious about a gas fireplace. I suspect Vinca will chime in later with the appropriate links to the FDNY issues with this.
Whether this is permitted or not, i don’t have much issue with. I would however, want the gas piping to be done correctly.