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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 heater 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.

OBSERVED PROBLEM

White powder residue forming within burner
box or on adjacent walls or furniture

Heater produces unwanted odors

Heater shuts off in use (ODS operates)

Gas odor even when control knob is in OFF
position

Gas odor during combustion

Moisture/condensation noticed on windows

POSSIBLE CAUSE

1. When heated, vapors from furniture pol-

ish, wax, carpet cleaners, etc. may turn
into white powder residue

1. Heater burning vapors from paint, hair

spray, glues, etc. (See

IMPORTANT

statement above)

2. Low fuel supply (propane/LP only)
3. Gas leak.

See Warning statement 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 statement at

top of page

2. Control valve defective

1. Foreign matter between control valve

and burner

2. Gas leak.

See Warning statement at

top of page

1. Not enough combustion/ventilation air

REMEDY

1. Turn heater off when using furniture

polish, wax, carpet cleaners, or similar
products

1. Ventilate room. Stop using odor-causing

products while heater is running

2. Refill supply tank (propane/LP only)
3. Locate and correct all leaks (see Check-

ing Gas Connections, pages 9 and 10)

1. Open window and/or door for ventila-

tion

2. Contact local natural or propane/LP gas

company

3. Clean ODS/pilot (see Cleaning and

Maintenance, page 16)

1. Locate and correct all leaks (see Check-

ing Gas Connections, pages 9 and 10)

2. Replace control valve

1. Take apart gas tubing and remove for-

eign matter

2. Locate and correct all leaks (see Check-

ing Gas Connections, pages 9 and 10)

1. Refer to Fresh Air for Combustion and

Ventilation requirements (page 4)

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