Gas Fireplace Troubleshooting 🔥🪵
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Today on Serving Up Plumbing with David Butler we are discussing the 4 main types of gas fireplaces, troubleshooting your gas fireplace heater and the differences in thermocouple vs thermopile! You'll also learn how to test the pilot light and how to see if the problem is the switch or maybe the output of gas! Let me know what you want to see next in the comments below! 🔥
0:00 Serving Up Plumbing Yule Log
0:10 Intro
0:38 4 Kinds of Fireplaces
1:30 Welcome to My Fireplace
1:49 Removing the Glass
1:57 Killswitch
2:19 3 Main Things To Troubleshoot
2:40 Will it light? Does it have gas?
3:08 Light the Pilot Light
3:26 Take a Picture Before Taking Gas Logs Out!
3:49 Pilot Light Assembly
6:05 Thermopile vs Thermocouple
7:06 Testing the Thermopile with a UEI Meter
8:29 Testing the Gas Control Valve & Switch
11:57 Narrowing it Down
12:55 The Pilot Light Still Won't Light!
13:04 Is The Ignitor Working?
13:59 Disassembling & Cleaning the Pilot Light
14:42 Check the Pilot Light to GCV* Connection
15:18 Outro
GCV* = Gas Control Valve
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