It sounds like an empty bottle Jo...have you checked it ??My wonderful gas fire isnt working!!! I put a new gas bottle on last weekend and it seemed faulty cos the fire wouldnt work, so I took it back, they let me change it and it was fine. Anyway, its been fine all week. But tonight when I went to switch it on, it wont stay on! The pilot light comes on, but it makes a crackling sound and when I take my finger off the other button it just goes out!! Any tips??? Its cold!
Jo xxx
My gas fire
My wonderful gas fire isnt working!!! I put a new gas bottle on last weekend and it seemed faulty cos the fire wouldnt work, so I took it back, they let me change it and it was fine. Anyway, its been fine all week. But tonight when I went to switch it on, it wont stay on! The pilot light comes on, but it makes a crackling sound and when I take my finger off the other button it just goes out!! Any tips??? Its cold! 
Jo xxx
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Lucky you live in Spain ... Imagine what would happen if you lived in Scandinavia:boxing:My wonderful gas fire isnt working!!! I put a new gas bottle on last weekend and it seemed faulty cos the fire wouldnt work, so I took it back, they let me change it and it was fine. Anyway, its been fine all week. But tonight when I went to switch it on, it wont stay on! The pilot light comes on, but it makes a crackling sound and when I take my finger off the other button it just goes out!! Any tips??? Its cold!
Jo xxx
OMG Jo, this is a tragedy!! You must be freezing your butt off.My wonderful gas fire isnt working!!! I put a new gas bottle on last weekend and it seemed faulty cos the fire wouldnt work, so I took it back, they let me change it and it was fine. Anyway, its been fine all week. But tonight when I went to switch it on, it wont stay on! The pilot light comes on, but it makes a crackling sound and when I take my finger off the other button it just goes out!! Any tips??? Its cold!
Jo xxx
A gas bottle weighs a lot less when it's empty doesn't it??
much less
jojo - maybe something is blocking the pilot light?
take it back to the shop today
I have a story about gas bottles
a few weeks ago I took a frantic call from a student - her boyfriend had been to swap an empty one for a full one at a self-service place & got back home with another empty one
she'd gone back to the garage with him to try & explain with her rudimentary spanish (only been learning a few months) what had happened - but couldn't make herself understood, or understand they guy
I spoke to the guy - sorted it out, after he did a count at the end of the day if the totals didn't balance he'd give them a full one the next morning - which he did:clap2:
but I ask you - it's easy really - if you can pick it up easily it's not full
I have a new regulator!! and I have found the fault, its because the regulator doesnt seem to quite fit the bottle top properly - it works if I stand and push the regulator down, this minute I stop pushing it goes out!! The new regulator is the same as the old one, so is it a design fault? Is it my gas bottle, altho this one has a slightly different top from the last one that didnt work!
I'm getting cross with the whole business now! I'm not going back to the shop again, too much traffic and too far! It'll have to wait til I get back from the UK. I loved that gas fire !!
Jo xxx
Aye, we're going to get one of these. Mrs Doggy reckons it'll be much better than using the aircon when it's not quite cold enough to get the (log)fire going and so keep the bills down.
What she doesn't know is that I have the aircon banging away like a good'un on a morning before she gets up so the next problem is going to be getting to the next couple of lekky bills before she does
Doggy
What she doesn't know is that I have the aircon banging away like a good'un on a morning before she gets up so the next problem is going to be getting to the next couple of lekky bills before she does
Doggy
regulator
You hold the top of the regulator and pull the flat outer plate of the regulator up, push the regulator down onto the valve, release the flat plate and then push the flat outer plate down to lock the regulator onto the valve. You then cannot pull the regulator off the valve.
Hope this makes sense and is of help.
Graham
Jo - I'm not being condescending but - are you fitting the regulator correctly?I have a new regulator!! and I have found the fault, its because the regulator doesnt seem to quite fit the bottle top properly - it works if I stand and push the regulator down, this minute I stop pushing it goes out!! The new regulator is the same as the old one, so is it a design fault? Is it my gas bottle, altho this one has a slightly different top from the last one that didnt work!
I'm getting cross with the whole business now! I'm not going back to the shop again, too much traffic and too far! It'll have to wait til I get back from the UK. I loved that gas fire !!
Jo xxx
You hold the top of the regulator and pull the flat outer plate of the regulator up, push the regulator down onto the valve, release the flat plate and then push the flat outer plate down to lock the regulator onto the valve. You then cannot pull the regulator off the valve.
Hope this makes sense and is of help.
Graham
Hey, you be as condescending as you like!!
Any advise is gratefully recieved, I'll see if I can follow your instructions ?! I was gonna ask my neighbour to take a look today, just in case its me being "blonde". Altho my sons fairly good with things like this and he cant seem to get it to work either and it does feel "right" when its "in place"??!! Jo xxxx
:scared::boom::doh::shocked: oh dearHey, you be as condescending as you like!!
Jo xxxx
Thanks for your help - I showed my son what you'd written and he went off muttering that there must be a way! Its warming up in here now, so I might even take my coat and scarf off in a mo lol!!Don't like to brag.....:juggle:
Well done - enjoy!
Graham
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