that smelled like plastic....? Our gas fireplace is virtually new, rarely used because when we turned it on it always smelled like burning plastic. But we did turn it on the recommended hours to get all the "new fireplace" smell out, and still that terrible plastic smell. So today I thought maybe try to take out the fake logs and the little bits of fluffy stuff that make it look like sparks. Well once I took those out and THEN lighted the fireplace the smell is gone. So my question is: what can I replace the logs with so I won't ever have that nasty fake plastic smell again?
I was thinking about these glass beads or crystals instead of logs that I've seen on designer shows. But I don't know where to find them or how much they might cost. If you have another idea, or a certain type of log that you know I can buy that doesn't produce that burning plastic smell please let me know.
(It was so bad that we thought maybe there was a plastic bag stuck behind the fireplace from the builders but we had someone come out and check and he couldn't find what the smell was coming from. We had burned it for the recommended hours plus some, so it wasn't from just being new. We tried to burn the smell off if it was coming from the logs, but it's been 5 years and still that nasty plastic smell!)
So anyway now that they're out, like I said it's virtually gone, but I don't know what to do now since it looks stupid with gas flames and nothing to hide where they come out. Thanks for any help!
NOTE: I just looked online and found a place to buy the fireplace crystals BUT they cost 150 to 200 bucks for 25 pounds of them. I don't want to buy that much, maybe 10 pounds at the most would work for me, 75 bucks max I'd like to spend, do you know where I can buy a smaller quantity of these online?
SECOND NOTE: Okay I just found a website called, BlazingGlass.com and they sell it it seems in smaller quantities (by the pound) but now my husband is worried that just because we have a gas vented fireplace doesn't mean we can use these crystals, that ours is set up that way. Well I told him I think you can use the crystals with any gas vented fireplace, but the weird thing is that in the pictures on their site they make it seem like the crystals just sit on the entire bottom of the fireplace and the fire shoots up through them. But in our fireplace there is this piece of hardware that sort of raises up and on that sits the rack for the logs. It looks like we could take the rack off by unscrewing it, but it still would have the raised up piece which the flames shoot through. It doesn't seem like it would work like in the photos, in ours the crystals would sit on the raised up piece not on the bottom of the fireplace. So would that even work with ours then? Is it a danger to try it?
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