SAFETY INFORMATION
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3.If you smell gas
•shut off gas supply
•do not try to light any appliance
•do not touch any electrical switch; do not use any phone in your building
•immediately call your gas supplier from a neighbor’s phone. Follow the gas supplier’s instructions
•if you cannot reach your gas supplier, call the fire department
4.This fireplace shall not be installed in a bed- room or bathroom.
5.Do not use this fireplace as a
6.Do not add extra logs or ornaments such as pine cones, vermiculite, or rock wool. Using these added items can cause sooting. Do not add lava rock around base. Rock and debris could fall into the control area of fireplace.
7.This fireplace is designed to be smokeless. If logs ever appear to smoke, turn off fireplace and call a qualified service person. Note: Dur- ing initial operation, slight smoking could occur due to log curing and fireplace burning manufacturing residues.
8.To prevent the creation of soot, follow the instructions in Cleaning and Maintenance, page 22.
9.Before using furniture polish, wax, carpet cleaner, or similar products, turn heater off. If heated, the vapors from these products may create a white powder residue within burner box or on adjacent walls or furniture.
10.This fireplace needs fresh air ventilation to run properly. This fireplace has an Oxygen Depletion Sensing (ODS) safety shutoff sys- tem. The ODS shuts down the fireplace if not enough fresh air is available. See Air for Com- bustion and Ventilation, pages 6 through 8. If fireplace keeps shutting off, see Troubleshoot- ing, pages 23 through 26.
11.Do not run fireplace
•where flammable liquids or vapors are used or stored.
•under dusty conditions.
12.Do not use this fireplace to cook food or burn paper or other objects.
13.Do not use fireplace if any part has been under water. Immediately call a qualified service tech- nician to inspect the room fireplace and to re- place any part of the control system and any gas control which has been under water.
14.Turn off and unplug fireplace and let cool be- fore servicing. Only a qualified service per- son should service and repair fireplace.
15.Operating fireplace above elevations of 4,500 feet could cause pilot outage.
16.Do not operate fireplace if any log is broken. Do not operate fireplace if a log is chipped
17.To prevent performance problems, do not use propane/LP fuel tank of less than 100 lbs. ca- pacity (propane/LP only).
18.Provide adequate clearances around air openings.
LOCAL CODES
Install and use fireplace with care. Follow all lo- cal codes. In the absence of local codes, use the latest edition of The National Fuel Gas Code, ANSI Z223.1/NFPA 54*.
*Available from:
American National Standards Institute, Inc.
1430 Broadway
New York, NY 10018
National Fire Protection Association, Inc.
Batterymarch Park
Quincy, MA 02269
PRODUCT
IDENTIFICATION
Fireplace
Cabinet 
Screen
Logs
Control Knob
Ignitor Button
Figure 1 - Vent-Free Gas Compact
Fireplace
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