Gas fire smells of soot

nofoollikeold

The fake logs in the fire will be placed in specific places.  If you have cleaned the fire and not replaced them as at initial installation the gas may not be burning properly.  Any sign of yellow flame rather than blue means incomplete combustion, which may deposit soot on the "logs" which later burns off.  Get it serviced by an engineer with a current Gas Safe qualification for gas fires.  Do not use until serviced.

Bendy_House

nofoollikeold said:

The fake logs in the fire will be placed in specific places.  If you have cleaned the fire and not replaced them as at initial installation the gas may not be burning properly.  Any sign of yellow flame rather than blue means incomplete combustion, which may deposit soot on the "logs" which later burns off.  Get it serviced by an engineer with a current Gas Safe qualification for gas fires.  Do not use until serviced.

None of that should come in to the room, tho'.

That stove is near identical to the Yeoman Exe gas stove I got recently (to try and convert into a log burner...). The gas chamber is quite separate to, and sealed from, the stove body, but when it heats up, air is drawn in between the casings, heated, and comes out t'top. Any smell from burning house dust (inc skin!) would hopefully be from an accumulation on the outside of the burner casing (and inside the stove body), so hopefully now't to do with the logs or flame.

But, I hope they move that CO alarm.