Gas Fireplace Shuts Off And Comes Back On

There are multiple things that could be going on.

Gas fireplace shuts off and comes back on.

We turned the gas lines back on and bled out all the air. They turn off the gas lines during the summer so that the line runs to the pool heater. I reach in to th. When your gas fireplace shuts off and pilot goes out usually it means that the thermocouple is bad or on the way of being bad.

You could be dealing with a bad thermo couple thermo pile. It turns on fine but after perhaps 10 minutes sometime 30 minutes the length of time varies the unit simply goes off. It has been shutting itself off after a minute then turning itself back on repeatedly for over a year. 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.

The thermo couple is a sensor that senses heat a. On the contrary if you want to. I have a heatilator dls 18 gas fireplace installed in 1993. Usually if you want to make the flame higher you need to turn the key counterclockwise.

The first thing you need to do it call a hearth professional and have the unit serviced. It took quite a while. I called a service person and he couldn t fix it without recommending we spend 500 to replace a part. So we chose to leave it.

Pilot light stayed on the whole time though. 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. I can t believe my eyes but this fixed my fireplace too.