FeF gas fire

[TNDU]

I have an old FeF 16NV gas fire, which I would like to shut off. The picture shown shows two isolation points for the gas supply. I have looked at the supply pipe and it leads to the pipe labelled 2 in the picture. This then has a perdendicular pipe feeding the fire burner, labelled 1 in the picture.

1. I understand that if I turn the ioslation valve 1 off, that would cut the supply to the fire burner, is this correct?

2. Is the isolation valve labelled 2 the valve for testing the pressure? Is that the correct position for that? That is, off. That is how I found it.

3. The user manual, which is pretty poor, seems to indicate that the spot shown by yellow arrow in second picture is the off position for the burner, but what is the indicator circled in yellow? It seems to be even beyond off?

 

[Madrab]

No - the restrictor elbow works the other way. Can I recommend you get a GSR engineer in to do the gas work please. When Isolating an appliance using one of those valves the pipework needs to be tightness tested, to ensure the valve isn't passing.

3 - the first round dot is the burner off but the pilot light on position on the gas control. The control should be vertical or at least pointing to the right hand end of the dotted line to be totally off, which it looks like it might be.

 

[TNDU]

No - the restrictor elbow works the other way. Can I recommend you get a GSR engineer in to do the gas work please. When Isolating an appliance using one of those valves the pipework needs to be tightness tested, to ensure the valve isn't passing.

3 - the first round dot is the burner off but the pilot light on position on the gas control. The control should be vertical or at least pointing to the right hand end of the dotted line to be totally off, which it looks like it might be.
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Thank you for the reply.

1. Yes, the on/off control knob is fully turned to the right. What you have said makes sense now.

2. I am not planning to remove the gas fire as I would need a gas safe engineer to do that, and it is good advice that these sort of valves need to be tightness tested when they are turned off to ensure that there is no leakage from the valve. My plan is to get a gas safe engineer round to remove the old gas fire and get an electric one installed, so the gas supply needs to be removed completely, rather than just shut off.

I just wanted to shut the supply off to the fire as a pre measure, while I wait to get a suitable new electric fire.

So from what you say, the larger valve, labelled 2 in the photo, is the supply isolation valve and the smaller valve, labelled 1 in the photo is the restrictor elbow, which controls the flow to the fire burner?

 

[Madrab]

Just as an addition, if the fire is to be isolated and decommissioned then ideally the pipework should be cut back to as close to the branch off point as possible and capped.