Fixing Cannon Coalridge fire?

Mitsouko

The 'living flame' gas fire we have in our rented house is a Cannon Coalridge Power Flue 2. After we moved in we discovered that
It has been disconnected by a CORGI fitter as unsafe. The red sticker says 'Flame Supervision Device Faulty'.

The rather tight landlord does not want to pay to fix it. His excuse is that the instruction booklet is lost and therefore he would have to fit a new fire which would cost him too much.

Yes I know he is supposed to fix it legally, etc, we've been in contact with a solicitor over this.

Are there any gas fitters on the forum who are maybe familiar with this model and would have a rough idea of if this could be fixed and what the approximate cost would be?

Thanks.

ormus

i would be amazed if he legally has to fit a gas fire in the first place.
(check your tenancy contract).
he certainly needs to make sure all gas appliances are safe, and needs a gas certificate.
as the cas fire is disconnected, it is therefore safe.

Pssst

There is nothing spectacular about a canon coalridge. Its run of the mill technology and could easily be fixed. AFAIK Cannon have their own service network but any decent engineer could sort it assuming he could source any parts.

Mitsouko

ormus wrote: »

i would be amazed if he legally has to fit a gas fire in the first place.
(check your tenancy contract).
he certainly needs to make sure all gas appliances are safe, and needs a gas certificate.
as the cas fire is disconnected, it is therefore safe.

Actually in our case the house was advertised as having a fire, and the agency did not inform us it didn't work until the day the tenancy started, after we'd signed the contract. Under section 11 of the Landlord and Tenant Act he is obliged to maintain anything in the house that supplies heating and is powered by gas. If they had informed us beforehand it wasn't working, maybe that would be different, I don't know.

Anyway both Shelter and a solicitor are telling me this.

I think the 'missing instruction booklet' excuse is us being fobbed off, and just wanted to know if its a rare model or something (can't be more than 10 years old) and if the quoted problem with it was actually fixable and how much it's goiing to cost him to fix it.

paintpot

If the fire has been made safe and disconnected that is good so the landlord has fulfilled their obligation there. Anything supplied by the landlord is the landlord's responsibility to repair. If you weren't told it wasn't working when you rented the property and the property was advertised as having one then I would think it reasonable for the landlord to fix it. Is it listed in the inventory, does it state anything about whether it is operational? Is it mentioned on the gas safety cert.

Anyway, to answer your question, i have the same fire in a rental property and I have a manual for it but not positive it is a II, it could be a III but II rings a bell. The fire stopped lighting and I sourced the part, it was a piezo or ignition assembly. It wasn't very expensive and my corgi engineer fitted it. I don't know if your problem is the same as I am not a gas engineer but the point being I did manage to obtain the parts and that was about 12-18 months ago. It was also recently serviced by a different corgi engineer and he managed to dismantle it without needing a manual so I don't think it's rocket science.

If you need a manual then feel free to PM me and you can have a copy of mine if you/the landlord can't get hold of one.

Good luck