Gas Burner Installation

The burner is the heart of a gas hearth and the one component you can't tune your way out of after the fact. We install the burner system as a sized, fuel-matched assembly: a burner pan or tube rated in BTU to the volume of your firebox, fed through the correct orifice for your gas, and set beneath a ceramic log set whose every piece lands on the manufacturer's placement diagram. Get those three right and the fire stands tall, even, and clean for the life of the set; get any one wrong and no adjustment will save it. We give the burner the attention the engineering deserves, in every DFW home we serve.

Sizing comes first, and it's unforgiving. A burner rated above the firebox it sits in throws flame against the back and sides, scorching the panels and soot-blacking the logs; one rated below it looks thin and starved. We measure the firebox depth, width, and height and match the burner's BTU input to it — not to the biggest set on the shelf. Where vented gas logs installation is chosen for the look of the flame and hinges on whether your chimney can carry the exhaust, this service hinges on whether the burner hardware is correctly sized and built for your firebox and fuel, chimney or not.

Fuel is the second hard fact, and it's where most botched installs hide. Natural gas and liquid propane aren't interchangeable: LP runs at roughly three times the manifold pressure and needs a far smaller orifice to meter it, so an NG burner fired on propane over-gasses — sooting and roaring — while an LP burner on natural gas starves to a weak blue flame. We confirm your fuel at the meter or tank, fit or drill the burner to the correct orifice, and set the air shutter to match. The conversion is a parts change, never a knob turn, and we don't guess at it.

Then comes the layout — the craftsmanship the homeowner actually sees. We bed the burner properly, diffusing the gas across the whole pan with vermiculite or silica sand under a pan burner, and we set each ceramic log exactly to the manufacturer's diagram. Log placement is the entire game: one log a half-inch out of position makes the flame impinge on it, and an impinging flame quenches, soots, and streaks the firebox black within a season. We dress the set with the right ember and glowing-coal media so the bed reads like a real coal fire instead of a row of lit pipes.

Finally we commission the burner as hardware. We confirm flame travels the full burner length and lifts evenly off every port, check that no flame strikes a log, verify the air shutter gives a crisp flame with no soot tip, and run an ambient CO check while it burns. We tie into whatever valve and ignition you already have so the set lights reliably — but we don't sell those here; a failing valve or a new ignition or remote is its own job. What this visit hands you is a correctly built fire: sized, fueled, and laid out right.

Two identical log sets ship in identical boxes; what turns one into a showroom flame and the other into a sooty disappointment is entirely the sizing, the orifice, and the placement behind it. That's the part no shelf sells — and the exact part we refuse to shortcut.