Gas Fireplace Shuts Off And Comes Back On

You could be dealing with a bad thermo couple thermo pile.

Gas fireplace shuts off and comes back on.

I can t believe my eyes but this fixed my fireplace too. The previous owners installed the fireplace less than 1 year ago. It has been shutting itself off after a minute then turning itself back on repeatedly for over a year. I recently purchased a home that has a gas fireplace.

We turned the gas lines back on and bled out all the air. Pilot light stayed on the whole time though. You need to put the key back into the keyhole if you want to adjust the height of the flame. I reach in to th.

I called a service person and he couldn t fix it without recommending we spend 500 to replace a part. I have a heatilator dls 18 gas fireplace installed in 1993. The thermo couple is a sensor that senses heat a. So we chose to leave it.

The first thing you need to do it call a hearth professional and have the unit serviced. I admit i m no expert when it comes to gas fire places but i had an old gas heater that displayed similar issues and it turned. There are multiple things that could be going on. It turns on fine but after perhaps 10 minutes sometime 30 minutes the length of time varies the unit simply goes off.

Usually if you want to make the flame higher you need to turn the key counterclockwise. The thermocouple is a small device that generates electricity from heat they are used in gas furnaces and such to shut off the gas in case the pilot goes out so gas doesn t continue to flow and fill the room. On the contrary if you want to.