Re: Emeril : homemade smoker

"Steve Wertz" <swertz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 8 May 2007 21:36:27 +0000 (UTC), Steve Pope wrote:

Steve Wertz <swertz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think in New York City, BBQing is illegal - period. Except in
certain parks in designated areas. And fully equipped
restaurants, of course.

That wouldn't make much sense for the outer parts of Queens
that are essentialy like Long Island suburbs.

Must be in your own yard 10 feet away from any building. That
excludes about 95% of New York residential homes.

http://www.gothamist.com/2006/06/30/post_94.php

I believe the rule in Washington, DC is the same as in NYC. 10 feet away from anything combustible. That would pretty much forbid any grilling in the houses in my development. In fact, the condo association sent a letter out to all the owners several years ago informing them of this. But I believe the letter was just a CYA thing, done to please the insurance company. There was no followup. There are grills plainly visible behind at least a quarter of the houses. Both gas grills and charcoal grills.

Even more amusing is the fact that I have a chiminea on my patio, in plain sight. I've had it there for 9 years. One day a group of firemen even got a good look at it, as they were on my patio discussing something. I thought I had gotten caught. Not at all. I went down to talk to them. They were doing training showing the new guys appropriate ways to break into houses like ours. Not a word about the chiminea. It looked obviously used, as the interior of the chimney is totally black.

There might be some leeway on the term "combustible materials". My house is made of brick (solid, not veneer over frame). Does that exempt it from the regulation? But there are wood privacy fences on either end of my patio, which is 10 feet by 13 feet.

There is good reason for those regulations, as a lot of people are quite careless. At one house in my neighborhood (shortly before the fire letter), the people set their second story deck on fire. The grill was left unattended and a grease fire started, igniting the wood surface of the deck. No major damage, but there could have been if no one noticed.

There was another case in the area with new construction houses clad with vinyl siding. Someone left unattended a votive candle burning in a glass holder on a wicker table on their patio. The glass split, the candle set the wicker table on fire. That fire set the vinyl siding on fire, spreading to the house itself. And not only did that house catch on fire, but the adjacent detached one did too, via the same method... the vinyl siding.

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