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VENTED NATURAL GAS LOGS

TROUBLESHOOTING

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WARNING: 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.

IMPORTANT: Operating log set where impurities in air exist may create odors. Cleaning supplies, paint, paint remover, cigarette smoke, cements and glues, new carpet or textiles, etc., create fumes. These fumes may mix with combustion air and create odors. These odors will disappear over time.

OBSERVED PROBLEM

POSSIBLE CAUSE

REMEDY

Log Set produces a clicking/ticking noise just after burner is lit or shut off

1.Metal expanding while heating or con- tracting while cooling

1.This is common with most log sets. If noise is excessive, contact qualified ser- vice person

Log Set produces unwanted odors

1.

Log Set burning vapors from paint, hair

 

 

spray, glues, cleaners, chemicals, new

 

 

carpet, etc. (See IMPORTANT state-

 

 

ment above)

 

2.

Gas leak. See Warning statement at

 

 

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1.Open flue to maximum. Stop using odor causing products while log set is running

2.Locate and correct all leaks (see Check- ing Gas Connections, pages 8 and 9)

Gas odor even when control knob is in OFF

1.

Gas leak. See Warning statement at

1.

Locate and correct all leaks (see Check-

position

 

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ing Gas Connections, pages 8 and 9)

 

2.

Control valve defective

2.

Replace control valve

 

 

 

 

 

Gas odor during combustion

1.

Gas leak. See Warning statement at

2.

Locate and correct all leaks (see Check-

 

 

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ing Gas Connections, pages 8 and 9)

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