Hearthlist Digest #487 - Saturday, September 9, 2000
 
gas log setup sans logs
  by "Noel Gilmore" <[email protected]>
Big Boxes, etc..  by Craig Issod & Jim Hartsen
  by "Roger Sanders" <[email protected]>
 

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Subject: gas log setup sans logs
From: "Noel Gilmore" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 20:38:12 -0400
 
 
>Subject: gas log setup sans logs
>From: <[email protected]>
 
>I wondered if anyone knows of a source who produces a "streamline gas =
fire."
>Best described as a gas log setup sans logs.  I have several architects =
and
>designers who require this look to satisfy their clients' desires.  I'd
>appreciate any leads to the source of this idea
 
 
Here's my guess: the movie of a couple of years back, "The Devil's
Advocate" with Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves. Pacino (the devil) had in his
office a "fireplace" with a long and narrow opening, and the flame went =
all
the way across the opening as if it were just one super-long burner tube,
recessed down below the lip of the opening so all that was seen was the
flame...I didn't see any logs in it. I had a builder ask me about it on
behalf of his customer who wanted something similar. Rent the flick for a
better view than I can supply with words.
 
Noel Gilmore
Autumn Moon Fireplaces
Port St. Lucie, FL
 
 

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Subject: Big Boxes, etc..  by Craig Issod & Jim Hartsen
From: "Roger Sanders" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 20:38:50 -0400
 
Craig and Jim,
 
You are both right, but don't forget to thank God for all the incredibly
unreliable, draft sensitive and difficult to properly install
characteristics that come with most of our products.
 
If it wasn't for hearth products being so problematic and having so many
safety concerns, the Big Boxes would be killing us like they have killed
a lot of others.
 
Some consumer products like stereo/home intertainment have reinvented
themselves in their high end products and are staying a step ahead. Our
hearth products industry certainly doesn't have this creativity or
insite.
 
We'll have to continue to rely on our products being very problematic
and having a safety risk, for our best defense.
 
Roger Sanders