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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 instruc
-
tions.
• If you cannot reach your gas supplier, call the fire department.
IMPORTANT:
Operating appliance 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.
POSSIBLE CAUSE
1. Appliance burning vapors from paint,
hair spray, glues, cleaners, chemicals,
new carpet, etc. (See
IMPORTANT
statement above)
2. Low fuel supply (propane/LP only)
3. Gas leak.
See Warning state-
ment at top of page
1. Low line pressure
2. ODS/pilot is partially clogged
1. Gas leak.
See Warning state-
ment at top of page
2. Control valve or gas control de-
fective
1. Foreign matter between control
valve and burner
2. Gas leak.
See Warning state-
ment at top of page
REMEDY
1. Open window to ventilate room.
Stop using odor causing products
while appliance is running
2. Refill supply tank (propane/LP
only)
3. Locate and correct all leaks
(see
Checking Gas Connections
,
Page 9
)
1. Contact local natural or propane/
LP gas company
2. Clean ODS/pilot
(see Cleaning
and Maintenance,
Page 16
)
1. Locate and correct all leaks
(see
Checking Gas Connections
,
Page 9
)
2. Replace control valve or gas con-
trol
1. Take apart gas tubing and remove
foreign matter
2. Locate and correct all leaks
(see
Checking Gas Connections
,
Page 9
)
OBSERVED PROBLEM
Appliance produces unwanted odors
Appliance shuts off in use (pilot
operates)
Gas odor even when control knob
is in OFF position
Gas odor during combustion
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