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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.
• Leave the building immediately.
• 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 fireplace 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. Heater 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 statement above
1. Not enough fresh air is available
2. Low line pressure
3. ODS/pilot is partially clogged
1. Gas leak.
See Warning statement above
2. Control valve or gas control defective
1. Foreign matter between control valve and
burner
2. Gas leak.
See Warning statement above
REMEDY
1. Open window to ventilate room. Stop us-
ing odor causing products while heater is
running
2. Refill supply tank (propane/LP only)
3. Locate and correct all leaks
(see Checking
Gas Connections,
Page 13
)
1. Open window and/or door for ventilation
2. Contact local natural or propane/LP gas
company
3. Clean ODS/pilot
(see Cleaning and Main-
tenance,
Page 21
)
1. Locate and correct all leaks
(see Checking
Gas Connections,
Page 13
)
2. Replace control valve or gas control
1. Take apart gas tubing and remove foreign
matter
2. Locate and correct all leaks
(see Checking
Gas Connections,
Page 13
)
OBSERVED PROBLEM
Fireplace produces unwanted odors
Fireplace shuts off in use (ODS operates)
Gas odor even when control button is in
OFF position
Gas odor during combustion
