Converting Wood Burning Stove To Gas

Wood burning appliances such as wood stoves cannot be converted to gas.

Converting wood burning stove to gas.

Yes you can convert an existing wood burning fireplace to gas but it must be that an existing wood burning fireplace. These include converting the unit to use gas logs using a gas fireplace insert which also makes the fireplace much more efficient or converting the fireplace to a vent free appliance. Costs to convert wood fireplace to gas installing a gas line and either vented or vent free gas logs will cost from 500 to 2 500. Note that the cost of installing vent free gas logs is often about 200 more than the cost for vented gas inserts cost 2 000 to 5 500.

A wood burning prefabricated fireplace will need a conversion kit but masonry fireplaces have several options. As the name implies vented logs require a vent system the chimney when converting an existing wood fireplace to gas while non vented logs operate without a vent. Leaving your gas line allows you to add a gas starter pipe to your fireplace. When converting back to wood from gas logs you may want to keep the gas line in your fireplace.

You can make the conversion by simply adding a gas log set or by installing a self contained gas insert unit with its own chimney.