Installing Gas Fireplace

[Jade Pickenheim]

We recently bought a duplex to live in one unit and rent the other. Our unit has a fireplace whose vent to chimney has been sealed, but it has a pipe coming up from the floor that is capped. We assume that's a gas line, but could it be something else? We are wanting to put a gas fireplace in this spot if it is a gas line. Does anyone know what our next steps would be to getting a gas fireplace here? Especially regarding safety? Any and all input appreciated, thank you!

[Tamara Deering]

@Tom S.

This was 15 years ago in Seattle, WA so my costs are going to be totally different than yours but I believe the installation was roughly the price of the fireplace.  I think I was all in for less than $6,000.