Fire Pit Cleaning & Repair in Los Angeles

A gas fire pit is a burner ring or pan sitting under a layer of lava rock or fire glass, open to the sky. Everything that falls into it stays there: leaves, dirt, sprinkler water, ash during fire season. Water is the big one. If the pit doesn't drain well, water sits in the pan, rusts the burner and soaks the media. When you light it, wet lava rock can pop and spit.

Then there are spiders, which love the warm, dry space under the burner and the tube between the valve and the pan. And on pits with electronic ignition, the spark electrode and the batteries tend to be the first things to go.

• The pit won't light, or lights only after many tries
• Flames on one side and nothing on the other
• Popping or spitting from the lava rock
• The flame goes out after a few seconds on a safety-pilot system
• Standing water in the pan after rain or sprinklers
• A gas smell, especially near the valve or under the pit

For troubleshooting you can do first, see fire pit won't light.

We service the gas components and burner of the fire pit. We don't repair stone, concrete or tile surrounds, rebuild fire pit walls, or run new gas lines. Wood-burning fire pits don't need our kind of service, though we're happy to look at converting one to gas if your setup allows it. Outdoor fireplaces are covered on our fireplace service page.

Fire pits come with one of three ignition setups. Match-lit pits have a key valve and nothing else; you hold a long lighter to the burner and open the gas. They're simple and rarely fail, but they have no safety shutoff. Spark-ignition pits add a push-button or battery igniter. Safety-pilot and electronic-ignition systems add a thermocouple or flame sensor that shuts the gas off if the flame goes out, which is what most newer fire tables and HOA common-area pits use. Knowing which one you have helps us bring the right parts, so a photo of the control panel when you book is useful.