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Originally Posted by tommy steam
This is my take on it.A gas would be a better choice because you would not have the smell of smoke. Some people like the smell of the smoke of the fire but many do not. You are living very close in these neighborhoods and we must all try to get along. I move from a neighborhood in NY where some one would burn a fire pit somewhere in the neighborhood. Many times when I was in my home or going to bed I could not open my windows to enjoy the evening air, as it smelled like a forest fire. We could never find out who was burning the wood. It was not legal n my town to use a fire pit.
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This guy is 100% correct.
When we were younger we all enjoyed the smell of burning wood.
To buy homes with real burning fire places was the "dream."
We rarely put ours on now.........even though we still have two or three cords of wood sitting out back.......and some on the front porch.
Of course we will throw some logs on the fireplace over the long Thanksgiving weekend when the grandkids are all here.....they like to tend to the fire and have become quite expert at it.........
HOWEVER, us older folks get "all choked up" from the smell of the burning wood........we have a good outdoor exterior red brick chimney.......it's just we do not like what we used to like. WE are converting it to a gas fireplace.
We had young neighbors in our other home , who never said that our fireplace in that house or our woodstove either, bothered them.
However, their elderly next door neighbors complained that when the young couple began burning wood in the basement (to save money on oil) in the wood furnace (adjacent to the oil furnace)........it WORSENED their bronchitis, asthma, you name it.........wood smoke isn't good for the elderly.......or for kids with asthma.
I just looked at the new "under construction" homes that were sent to me and those villa walls are only a few feet from the back of the house.
Too close for comfort with a fire pit...........a gas one would be nice.
Like a gas barbecue grill. Just a suggestion.