Placement of coals on gas fire

[SuffolkSilver]

I can scan the section on the Portway Gas Fire coals setting for you. I can put it on my site at www.silverhairs.co.uk or Youtube or something. My fire is now working well. It WAS the thermocouple and I managed to scrape some residue off one end and that did the trick

 

[tashinka]

I can scan the section on the Portway Gas Fire coals setting for you. I can put it on my site at www.silverhairs.co.uk or Youtube or something. My fire is now working well. It WAS the thermocouple and I managed to scrape some residue off one end and that did the trick

That would be really helpful, yes if you put it on your website, I will be able to find it, thank you for that

 

[SuffolkSilver]

I hope you have pebbles like mine.

I have uploaded the picture to http://www.silverhairs.co.uk/help39.htm

I will take it off when you have found it as it is on my E books page and it might confuse (if anyone bothers to look at that page. It is my Pensioners page that does the biz and had 40,000 hits one month.
I have just been made Internet Champion 2012 by AgeUk and am going to be working with Martha Lane Fox of all people ! It is all happening !

 

[kikihector]

I have a Comficoal coal effect fire. I have taken coals out to clean the dust off them. There is a 1" layer of sand underneath the coals. Is this meant to be there or is it stuff that has fallen down the chimney, as I found some of it on a ledge up the chimney.

 

[SuffolkSilver]

Hi Tashinka. Have you been able to view and print the pebble position. If you have coal effects I am unable to helo as the manual only appears to show pebble placement.
I will take the graphic off my site in about a week as people might wonder what it is to do with e-books !

 

[Botfie]

I can scan the section on the Portway Gas Fire coals setting for you. I can put it on my site at www.silverhairs.co.uk or Youtube or something. My fire is now working well. It WAS the thermocouple and I managed to scrape some residue off one end and that did the trick

Hi any chance you could put the info on your website again, as I have moved into a house with Taylor & Portway fire and I have taken the coals out and hoovered it out but did not realise the coals needed to be positioned in a certan way . The fire smelt funny before I cleaned it out it smells even worse now when it's on !

 

[TonyW2]

Just a warning for folk on coal placements; the ceramic bed, if present, needs to be undamaged as well. The intention is to get a correctly balanced combustible mix of gas and air, so that the flame does not produce soot.
The cost of a bed and coals may suggest that a new fire would be the best solution.

 

[SuffolkSilver]

I have added the scan for these pebbles to my website at www.silverhairs.co.uk/help39.htm

You are welcome to look round the site, too !!

 

[SuffolkSilver]

The scan of the manual is now on www.silverhairs.co.uk/help39.htm

This is not an appropriate page so I will only leave it there for about a month

 

[wotan]

I would say that any fire that burns with a yellow flame, is dangerous, it's a sign of incomplete combustion, and will produce carbon monoxide.

Wotan

 

[Botfie]

The scan of the manual is now on www.silverhairs.co.uk/help39.htm

This is not an appropriate page so I will only leave it there for about a month

Thanks very much

 

[MatildaKingdom]

Me too, I have just taken all the coals off mine to reposition them better, then thought I'd look online for a maintenance manual to do it right, but just can't find one out there.

Didn't one of you say you had a manual? Surely it says something on maintenance? Nothing at all?

 

[mikeyd]

So that SuffolkSilver can remove the coal placement diagram from his website (Which is worth a look at), I've copied it to my album on this site so it can be seen directly from here.
Clicking it makes it bigger.

View media item 46786
Hope that's ok.

 

[obrienkathleen]

I also have a gas fire - coal effect, coals covered in soot. The gas man told me to disconnect it as I have no user manual and don't know how to lay out the coals and could kill myself with carbon monoxide.

The only info I have is on the front of the fire. It seems to be by Wonderfire, model AF16N. Anyone know where I can get a copy of the manual?

It's a lovely fire and surround, probably £1k's worth of lead, arts and crafts style. It's all integrated, so to change the fire I'd have to take the lot out (yikes!).

 

[kilrail]

I have an interesting problem. British Gas came out to test the fire and removed the coals. Didn't make a note of where they were and couldn't put them back because there was no identification on the fire or no manual (so my fault???). Now they say the fire is unsafe but surely it's their fault as their engineer removed the perfectly correctly positioned coals initially.
I think the fire is a Baxi Model 750 with the side slide control and I have a photo (14 coals), maybe someone could confirm so I can tell British Gas to get their act together.
I hope you can see the photo as I'm not sure how to add it seperately.