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 wood-burning fireplace. Use only the logs provided with the fireplace.

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 (dime-sized or larger).

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

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