Reply to What to do if you lose power during a winter storm?

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "What to do if you lose power during a winter storm?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have the gas fireplace professionally cleaned and inspected, and use that.  Ours has battery-powered ignition, so it is perfect for power outages, but you can also ignite any gas fireplace manually if you need to.  You should learn how to do this.

If you get desperate for heat elsewhere in your home then, assuming your water is heated with natural gas, you can also take hot showers and leave pots of hot water around for radiant heat.

Also, drip your faucets if the temperature in your home is dropping into the low 50s.   You are not going to freeze, but your pipes might.[/quote]

OP - I called our chimney people to come look at the gas fireplace (fingers crossed they can come before this weekend).  We just moved so we haven't had a chance to get it looked at yet so I am too nervous to use it.

Annoyingly we are in the process of getting a whole house generator but it is taking a long time (permits, etc) and probably won't be installed for another couple of weeks. [/quote]

Just try the fireplace now. The worst that can happen is that a little natural gas is released. It won't hurt anymore. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics