Just moved into house beside a inbred gas fireplace contained by underground room. 2 Questions...?
b. We don't plan on using the fireplace regularly (if ever really), but we've only lived here a week and the definite question is that a few times I've notice a faint gas smell contained by the basement (mostly single in the middle of the darkness [my bedroom's there] which seems for a time funny because the playroom, computer and laundry room are there too so I'm within the basement lots.) Like I said, I'm modern to the house and I don't want to overreact... I don't know if it's sewer gas from the laundry room or natural gas from the fireplace or a short time ago a different smell in a house that I'm not comparatively used to. Is it a good opinion to get gas fireplaces checked periodically? I hold a CO2 detector... should I put it in the vault?
Never had a fireplace since. Thanks
Answers: a. The gas company should be able to relate you how it works unless they have a bunch of incompetents working for them.
b. It is a dutiful idea to own a gas company technician come and check it out for you and show you how it works. If the smell that you are detecting is stronger in the laundry room than anywhere else after it probably is sewer gases, except then it probably is from the fireplace. It may hold a pilot light specifically out and a possible source of the smell. The CO2 detector will not detect natural gas but I noticeably put it in the subterranean vault when using the fireplace to insure that it is venting properly.
First it sounds similar to you have a pilot neutral out. If you check near the bottom of the fireplace near should be a panel that can be removed. Remove that panel. There is normally a row with a shaped cranium at the end of it. Either that or a strip that just ends. Thats where on earth the pilot light should be. You should see a small blue flame. That is also where on earth you may very okay find the valve. It is usually a very simple tap which will turn either horizontal or erect to the supply line. You definately obligation to check that area. It is death-defying not to. Depending on how old the fireplace is will determine if nearby is written instructions on how to light it etc. The dial is probably a temp assess?? Not sure about the switch bar I am almost positive that it may be an ignition switch which would throw an quick electric spark to ignite the fireplace itself from the pilot wispy. The dial would determine the intensity or the temp (auto ignite). I hate instinctive gas. ITS WAY WAY too expensive and getting worse every year. Its terrible. Good luck.
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