I have a wood burning fireplace that was converted to a gas insert that I'm converting back to wood burning. I've had a chimney sweep clean it and inspect it. He removed the insert for me and capped off the fitting inside the fireplace, but he wasn't licensed and bonded in my city to remove the gas pipe. The pipe enters the ash dump from outside the house and is all plumbed with regular threaded black iron pipe. If it was water I would have no problem at all in removing the pipe and capping it off outside, but I've never worked with gas before. I hate to call a plumber out for something that will take 15 or 20 minutes, so any advice would be appreciated.
Obviously I'll need to shut off the gas at the meter, which will kill my gas water heater (the only other thing that uses gas in my house.) I'm very familiar with relighting it. Is there anything else I have to watch for?
Obviously I'll need to shut off the gas at the meter, which will kill my gas water heater (the only other thing that uses gas in my house.) I'm very familiar with relighting it. Is there anything else I have to watch for?
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