Hi - hoping someone can help me. We are building an Earthcraft certified home and I want to put a masonry fireplace with gas logs inside. I was told by our builder that this won’t pass the Earthcraft inspection and that it requires fireplaces that are inside to be vented and sealed off from the home (basically, they have to have glass separating the fireplace from the house). Essentially, no open wood or gas burning fireplaces.

This sounds really restrictive to me and I’m personally not a fan of the glass lined fireplace look. However our city requires Earthcraft certification for new homes…

Does this requirement check out and if not, can anyone share a resource I can bring to my builder?

Thanks!!