Anyone have a gas fireplace in a rental?

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My pilot light is under the fireplace where the black grid is. Will it lift up?

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Oct 8, 2012 17:45:12 GMT -5 swizzlestx said:

Got it turned on! Didn't realize there were knobs below (never had a gas fireplace!)

Now it's on and I can turn low to high but it's hissing and smells gassy. Normal?

Did you just turn the gas on and not the electric wall switch? If the gas is on but you don't switch the electric switch and your gas is high, your leaking gas. Very bad.

If it's on the pilot light only, you are fine but it won't be hissing or smelling gassy.

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Oct 8, 2012 18:03:44 GMT -5 swizzlestx said:

No I turned on the wall switch and then the pilot light.

There are three knobs. One that I'd low to high, makes the flames bigger, then the lighter then a knob that says off, pilot, on.

Right now it's set to low and on.

Still sounds hissy and smells a little gassy when I turn off the wall switch (which cuts down to a little flame).

Am I doing something wrong?

Nope. You're fine.

ETA: If the gas smell doesn't go away in a bit, you may want to be concerned?

[pamela]

Ours in our home didn't have a pilot. We had to light it every time.

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we have one but the last time we turned it on, our carbon monoxide detector and smoke alarm started going crazy

[agnes]

Oct 8, 2012 19:00:34 GMT -5 pamela said:

Ours in our home didn't have a pilot. We had to light it every time.

Ours is like this also