SAFETY INFORMATION
WARNINGS
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WARNINGS
Important:
Read this owner’s manual carefully and
completely before trying to assemble, operate, or service
this firebox. Improper use of this firebox can cause serious
injury or death from burns, fire, explosion, electrical shock,
and carbon monoxide poisoning.
Early signs of carbon monoxide poisoning resemble the
flu, with headaches, dizziness, and / or nausea. If you have
these signs, the heater may not be working properly.
Get
fresh air at once! Turn off gas appliance. Have appliance
serviced
. Some people (such as pregnant women, persons
with heart or lung disease, persons with anemia and those at
high altitudes) are more affected by carbon monoxide than
others. Make certain you read and understand all warnings.
1.
Use correct gas type for your appliance. Do not convert
from one gas type to another.
2.
If this appliance is for use with Propane gas, do not
place propane supply tank(s) inside any structure.
Locate propane supply tank(s) outdoors.
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.
Do not use this appliance for burning trash or cooking.
Never place matches, paper, garbage, or any other
material on top of logs or logs into flame.
5.
Warning:
Always operate appliance with front
fireplace screens closed.
6.
Make sure any safety screen or guard removed for
servicing is in place before running appliance.
7. Never run appliance in a small, closed room. Open the
door into next room to help ventilate.
8.
If appliance shuts off, do not relight until you provide
fresh outside air. If appliance keeps shutting off, have it
serviced.
9. Do not run appliance:
– where flammable liquids or vapors are used or stored.
– under dusty conditions.
10. Surface of appliance becomes very hot when operating.
Keep children and adults away from hot surface.
Appliance will remain hot for some time after
shutdown. Allow surface to cool before touching.
11. Do not use this appliance if any part has been
submerged under water. Immediately call a qualified
technician to inspect the appliance and to replace any
part of the control system and gas control which has
been under water.
12. The installation must conform with local codes or, in
the absence of local codes, with the National Fuel Gas
Code, ANSI Z223.1.
13. Never install the appliance:
– in a bedroom, bathroom, mobile home, or recreational
vehicle.
– where curtains, furniture, clothing, or other flammable
objects are less than forty-two inches (42”) from the
front
of the appliance.
– in high traffic areas.
– in windy or drafty areas.
14. Disconnect the appliance and its individual shut off
valve from the gas supply piping system during any
pressure testing of that system at test pressures in
excess of 1/2 psig, (3.5kPa).
DANGER
CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING
MAY LEAD TO DEATH!
NOTE:
It is recommended that a Carbon Monoxide
(CO) Detector be installed in or near bedrooms and on all
levels of your home. Place a detector about 15 feet (4.5
meters) outside the room that houses your gas appliance.
This appliance is equipped for
(Natural or Propane) Gas.
Field conversion is not permitted.
Warning:
Failure to position parts in accordance
with these diagrams or failure to use only part
specifically approved with this heater may result in
property damages or personal injury.
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