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  • There Are Many Choices In Gas Fireplaces And Gas Fire Logs
    Nov 1 2025

    On the podcast today, Check A Pro Joe talks to Russell Metzler from Gas Product Services. Russell has been helping his customers for the past 30 years with their gas products. What are some gas products? Your fireplace, your grill, your fire pit, your gas lights and much more!

    Check out this informative podcast to learn about how gas products can make your home feel warmer both literally and figuratively.

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    7 min
  • Why Get A Grill For Outdoor Cooking?
    Sep 1 2025
    "We still have the old fashioned style post mounted grills. We also have a complete line of stainless steel built in grills and those are usually incorporated into some type of an outdoor kitchen." - Russell Metzler, Gas Product Expert Grills, Grills, and more Grills! If you love grilling you are going to love this episode of show today! Do you like spending time outdoors grilling? Well, check out this episode of The Check A Pro Radio Show with Jim Klauck, aka Check A Pro Joe! On the program today, Russell Metzler from Gas Product Services talks to us about the benefits of outdoor cooking on a grill. If you have an old gas grill that is not working call Russell. Russell has been assisting his customers for the past 30+ years with their gas products. What are some gas products? Your fireplace, your grill, your fire pit, your gas lights and much more! Check out this informative podcast to learn about how gas products can make your home feel warmer both literally and figuratively. For more information about Gas Product Services in Houston, Texas log on to www.gasproductservices.com or check them out at www.checkapro.com. Visit Us At - GasProductServices.com Podcast Episode Transcript: Grills, grills and more grills is the topic today here on the program. I've got a very good friend, Russell Metzler from gas product services. I say good friend. Uh, because I've known him for a long time. It's got to be 12 years or so. Hi, Russell, how are you? Hey, how's it going? Yeah, it's great to see you. Uh, you're the gas product expert. It's in your name. Gas product services. Uh, before we get into the excitement of the seasonal grilling. Let's get a quick background on you. You've been in the gas product services business for three decades now. Right. That is correct. I was very young when I started this. Yeah. And it's, it's everything, gas outside of the appliances that are generally inside the home, outside of the gas fireplace. So, you know, the gas dryer and, and, uh, the gas stove and so forth. That's for the appliance person. You do the fun stuff briefly, give a quick overview about the different types of gas products you work on before we get into our topic today, which is, which is grills, grills and more grills. Yes. The fun stuff or the romantic stuff, as I like to say. So, uh, at gas product services we have gas grills, gas lights, gas logs in the fireplace and any kind of outdoor fire features like a fire pit or a fire bowl. Um, uh, those things can be automated or not. Um, we have different types of torches, uh, tiki torches, luau torches and all that stuff is on our website at gas product services dot com. Yeah. No, it's all there. So, when we're talking about grills today, I want to make sure everyone knew that you do a lot more than just gas grills. Ok. It's grilling season. We're in the springtime and I love our topic. Grills, grills and more grills. You do a lot of that this time of year, right? Every day. I'm talking to people about grills. They wanna, they wanna get a gas grill, they wanna fix their gas grill or update their gas grill. Um, so, yeah, that, that is all the rage this time of year for sure. So, if you're watching this and you're saying, well, I have a gas grill. I bought it the big box store six years ago and it's rusting out and all I have to do is I guess, get a new one. Um, maybe you should get a hold of Russell at Gas Product Services because he's got all kinds of options. If you still want to have a propane tank, he can help you out with that. But he's got some, also some real neat options with having, uh, you know what I call a permanent built-in gas grill. But he can also have portable ones too that, um, are in your yard that can still use the natural gas from your home. So there's different options. Right. Yeah, there's several different ways that, that can be done. We can, the, the, the old standby from way back when I first started this, everybody had a grill on a post on the edge of the patio. You just walk out the back door and over to the edge of the patio and there, the grill was standing there and you, and it was connected to your gas meter and you could, uh turn it on and cook and then go back inside. We still have the old fashioned style post mounted grills. We also have a complete line of stainless steel built in grills and those are usually incorporated into some type of a, uh, it's what we call out an outdoor kitchen. It's a structure that's built out in the patio of bricks or stucco or, and it has a count granite countertop usually and the grills are made to slide into that. Those same grills can also be installed or, or put on a cart. So then you can, uh, you don't have to have that structure. You just have this cart and it's on wheels and you can roll the grill around, uh, on the patio or out of the garage and onto the patio or whatever you wanna do. And those carts can be connected to your natural gas or they can have a propane tank. You know...
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    6 min
  • How Does A Gas Firestarter / Log Lighter Work In A Wood Burning Fireplace?
    Aug 1 2025

    On the show today, Russell Metzler from Gas Product Services discusses "Water & Fire". Fire features incorporated with your water features make a great combination!

    If you have a fire feature that is not working call Russell.

    Russell has been assisting his customers for the past 30+ years with their gas products. What are some gas products? Your fireplace, your grill, your fire pit, your gas lights and much more!

    Check out this informative podcast to learn about how gas products can make your home feel warmer both literally and figuratively.

    For more information about Gas Product Services in Houston, Texas log on to www.gasproductservices.com or check them out at www.checkapro.com. Visit Us At - GasProductServices.com

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    8 min
  • Spending Time With Your Family By Pool And Fire Pit
    Jul 1 2025

    It's July! On the show today, Russell Metzler from Gas Product Services discusses the ins and outs of fire pits, fire bowls, gas grills and more.

    Summertime is the best time of year to spend quality time outside with your family by the pool and the fire!

    Russell has been assisting his customers for the past 30+ years with their gas products. What are some gas products? Your fireplace, your grill, your fire pit, your gas lights and much more!

    Check out this informative podcast to learn about how gas products can make your home feel warmer both literally and figuratively.

    For more information about Gas Product Services in Houston, Texas log on to www.gasproductservices.com or check them out at www.checkapro.com. Visit Us At - GasProductServices.com

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    10 min
  • What Are The Benefits Of Outdoor Fire Features
    Jun 9 2025

    Do you like spending time outdoors? Well would you like get some fire by the pool, spa or deck with a fire pit or fire in your water feature.

    On the show today, Russell Metzler from Gas Product Services talks to us about all of the fire feature options for your backyard.

    If you have an old firepit that is not working call Russell.

    Russell has been assisting his customers for the past 30+ years with their gas products. What are some gas products? Your fireplace, your grill, your fire pit, your gas lights and much more!

    Check out this informative podcast to learn about how gas products can make your home feel warmer both literally and figuratively.

    For more information about Gas Product Services in Houston, Texas log on to www.gasproductservices.com or check them out at www.checkapro.com. Visit Us At - GasProductServices.com

    Podcast Episode Transcript:

    I love this time of year get to spend time outside actually here in the greater Houston area we can spend time outside all year round actually some of the best time is in the winter the spring and the fall sometimes in the summer we don't want to spend a lot of time outside but they still can't I've asked Russell Metzler from gas product services to join me here on the program today to talk about fire features outside from fire pits to the fire features that work with the swimming pool all that kind of stuff hey Russell good to see you hey what's up Joe thanks for having us yeah so for over 30 years you've been helping Houstonians with their needs as far as gas product services which is the name of your company gas product services yeah and I need to clear this up with everybody just so you know Russell will not help you with your gas dryer or your oven or your water heater those are real appliances he's gonna help you out with those gas lanterns in your fireplace and those fun things like a fire pit or some type of other fire feature talk a little bit about those features the romantic stuff Joe OK so we got our pets it can be something like a round or square structure out on the patio that you pull a chair up to and set your feet on and turn on the knob and strike the lighter and it comes on and it burns kind of like a campfire so same concept as a campfire or we could do a linear fire feature which are real common in swimming pools like over on the as you look out the back windows at the backyard across on the far side of the pool could be like a a long 6 or 8 foot long linear flame that burns out there or it could be instead of the linear it could be little bowls like little round bowls two or three of them across the back of the pool that burned and these things can be set up as a manual control which means that you would go out and turn the little key just like the key on the wall in the house for the fireplace you would have a key like that for the outside and it would you would turn that key and strike a lighter and the flames come on and burn until you turn it off something that that some folks don't think about is we also have automation options for any kind of fire feature and that would mean that you can flip a switch somewhere or in some cases a lot of people swimming pools already have a remote control device where they you can sit and turn on the lights of the pool and turn on the pump and the pool heater and maybe if you have some kind of waterfall type thing you can turn that on also well we can make that turn on the fire wow so you just push a button and the fire bowls come on or the linear fire pit comes on or the the campfire pit the thing that you're sitting next to can turn on automatically like that so any anything is possible and so if you have anything like that in mind even if you just have an idea give me a call and let's chat about it maybe it's something we can help make happen yeah gas product services.com is Russell's website all of his contact information right just a click away is all in the notes section of this podcast including his phone number as always Russell would be more than happy to talk to you on the phone he'll even help you troubleshoot some things over the phone and he still has that old customer service he'll come out and take a free look seat at your project as well and it's really unheard of today from a lot of companies Russell's been doing this for 30 plus years he's got great customers and clients in the greater Houston area and he wants to work with you as well thanks Russell I appreciate it buddy Yep thank you Joe talk to you later.

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    4 min
  • What Are Water & Fire Features And Fire Pits?
    May 1 2025

    On the show today, Russell Metzler from Gas Product Services discusses "Water & Fire". Fire features incorporated with your water features make a great combination!

    If you have a fire feature that is not working call Russell.

    Russell has been assisting his customers for the past 30+ years with their gas products. What are some gas products? Your fireplace, your grill, your fire pit, your gas lights and much more!

    Check out this informative podcast to learn about how gas products can make your home feel warmer both literally and figuratively.

    For more information about Gas Product Services in Houston, Texas log on to www.gasproductservices.com or check them out at www.checkapro.com. Visit Us At - GasProductServices.com

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    10 min
  • Add Automation To Your Outdoor Fire Features
    Apr 1 2024

    On the podcast today, Check A Pro Joe talks to Russell Metzler from Gas Product Services. Russell has been helping his customers for the past 30 years with their gas products. What are some gas products? Your fireplace, your grill, your fire pit, your gas lights and much more!

    Check out this informative podcast to learn about how gas products can make your home feel warmer both literally and figuratively.

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    10 min
  • The Magic Of Fire And Fire Pits
    Mar 1 2025

    Have a pool? Well then you get some fire by the pool with a fire pit or fire in your water feature.

    On the show today, Russell Metzler from Gas Product Services talks to us about a firepit for the backyard or by the swimming pool.

    If you have an old firepit that is not working call Russell.

    Russell has been assisting his customers for the past 30+ years with their gas products. What are some gas products? Your fireplace, your grill, your fire pit, your gas lights and much more!

    Check out this informative podcast to learn about how gas products can make your home feel warmer both literally and figuratively.

    For more information about Gas Product Services in Houston, Texas log on to www.gasproductservices.com or check them out at www.checkapro.com. Visit Us At - GasProductServices.com

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    8 min