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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 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.
OBSERVED PROBLEM
Fireplace produces unwanted
odors
Fireplace shuts off in use (ODS
operates)
Gas odor even when control
knob is in OFF position
Gas odor during combustion
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TROUBLESHOOTING
Continued
POSSIBLE CAUSE
1. Fireplace burning vapors from
paint, hair spray, glues, clean-
ers, 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. Not enough fresh air is
available
2. Low line pressure
3. ODS/pilot is partially clogged
1. Gas leak.
See Warning state-
ment at top of page
2. Control valve defective
1. Foreign matter between con-
trol valve and burner
2. Gas leak.
See Warning state-
ment at top of page
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REMEDY
1. Open window to ventilate
room. Stop using odor caus-
ing products while fireplace is
running
2. Refill supply tank (propane/LP
only)
3. Locate and correct all leaks
(see Checking Gas Connec-
tions, pages 17 and 18)
1. Open window and/or door for
ventilation
2. Contact local natural or pro-
pane/LP gas company
3. Clean ODS/pilot (see Clean-
ing and Maintenance, pages
27 and 28)
1. Locate and correct all leaks
(see Checking Gas Connec-
tions, pages 17 and 18)
2. Replace control valve
1. Take apart gas tubing and re-
move foreign matter
2. Locate and correct all leaks
(see Checking Gas Connec-
tions, pages 17 and 18)
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