After much discussion and debate over what to do with our see through fireplace...we decided to purchase a gas log set. We didn't want to spend $1300 on the pretty ones designed specifically for see through fireplaces (we're cheap), nor did we want to burn wood (natural gas burns cleaner). Instead we decided that we'd just get a regular vent free gas log set (so we could use it w/ the damper closed, thus keeping our heat). Yes, it would look ducky on the flat back side, but we could get some loose ceramic logs or even some of our Ogden Canyon rocks we brought from Utah. We'd make it pretty. Who's going to see it besides us and my parents? We don't get a lot of visitors and we're not the "entertaining" type.
J and I set to work on installing the gas log set in the fireplace. We figured with his college degree and my infinite brilliance, we could install it, no problem. Then there was a problem. After two hours of installing it and running off for parts that were not included. It.would.not.ignite. We were up until almost 1am troubleshooting. We finally gave up and went to bed.
I woke up this morning, determined to get this stinking thing to work. I tried match lighting... no go. I then decided that the gas was the problem. I unhooked the set and the flexible gas hose. with my trusty cup of soapy water, I set to work, step by step, to see where the gas wasn't getting to the pilot light. to make a long story even longer, the problem was not our gas set up. The problem was the gas log set itself. The gas was getting to the set, it just wasn't going through the log set. I finally told J that he would have to take it back, because it didn't work. He called Lowe's and told them,they tried to troubleshoot over the phone. It didn't work. I told him to let them know that pieces were missing and that it was likely a return in the first place. He took it back. Brought back another set. Opened it up, no hex wrench. Naturally the hex wrench required is one that is a specialty size and didn't exist in the hex set that we owned. we took the gas log grate out, there was paint chipped on the backside. you could TELL it was a return. We rolled our eyes, sighed and put everything back into the box. It was suggested that I take it back, since I'm the more assertive of the two (that's a nice way of saying I'm a bitch, I think.), but as I pointed out, I am missing the all important dangly bits between my legs for them to take my seriously and not brush me off as another "mindless" woman. So, the love of my life has gone back to Lowe's. Hopefully to just get our money back, so we can go elsewhere.
I suppose I could just place our money in the fireplace and burn it instead. At least then I'd have a flame.
Sunday, January 4
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