Pilot Light Old Wall Heater

The new wall heaters ignite the pilot light with a spark.

Pilot light old wall heater.

Gas wall heaters whether vented or unvented can supply enough heat to warm a small or medium sized room and they can operate with propane or natural gas. We have an old coleman gas wall heater that was in our house when we bought it. The gas wall heater will not turn on. The reason that i think it is the thermastat is because i take it off and touch the wires together and each time the heater comes on.

Find the valve located in the heater and turn it to pilot. You should hear a hissing sound coming from the valve. Each time the heater works for a week or three. February 2018 in the main wall.

Old gas wall heater. I have changed the thermastat 3 times. If your old gas furnace has a standing pilot you can follow a standard procedure to relight the pilot light. I have the thermostat turned all the way down but i still feel heat coming from the heater so i just want to turn it off.

When one isn t working properly the. That same day when we tried to turn the heat back up. Do not attempt to do this at home in northern california pacific gas electric. Keep the knob in for 20 seconds and then release it and turn it to the on position.

When the pilot lights remove the flame but keep pressing the button. Step 4 press down the red button next to the control valve and keep pressing while you hold a lighted match or lighter next to the pilot orifice. We have never had any trouble with it until one day we turned the heat on the thermostat all the way down. Then press the button again to light up the pilot.

Turn the control valve on the heater until the marker that says pilot is lined up with the marker on the outside casing. All i m trying to do is turn off the pilot light inside our new apartments wall heater. The pilot lite is lit. Have a match or long lighter available to light the pilot.

After about 30 seconds release the button. Recently i had to re light the pilot light on an older model wall heater and decided to capture it on video. Press inward on the valve. This is probably something really simple but i can t figure it out.