It's a wall mounted water heater in a room where there's no hot water main supply.
2006-09-23 21:29:00 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Yes, stop using the unit until you have it serviced. Please disregard the many diagnosis’s of the psychics answering your question, because it could be any number of things causing this problem, and without more information it’s impossible to do anything but speculate.
You don’t need the cops, nor do you need an engineer. You do need a gas appliance service technician.
Most people want to start by calling a plumber when they have a water heater problem, unless the plumbing company is full service and offers heating service as well, their probably not the people to call. You should rather start by calling HVAC contractors in your area. You could also call your gas company to see if they offer appliance service.
There seems to be some serious terminology issues here. A Gas Appliance Engineer would be a person employed by an appliance manufacturer to design the construction and functionality of the appliance itself. He would not be the person that would come to a home and repair an appliance.
After the appliance is available on the market, and when it is not working properly, it would be repaired by a Gas Appliance Service Technician.
They are two very different people.
I guess I need to go paint Gas Engineer on the side of all my trucks. And to think I've been short changing myself all these years. Of course the next thing you know, we'll have Package delivery Engineers driving UPS trucks, Trash collecting Engineers driving garbage trucks and Dog catching Engineers hunting down stray’s. On second thought I’m going to paint Doctor of Gas Engineering.
Serious now, I guess I have never seen one of these vans you speak of, but that is far from saying they don’t exist. I’ve worked in the gas industry for years and would never consider calling myself or any of my service technicians Gas Engineer’s. Sorry if I offended you it was certainly not my intention.
2006-09-24 01:59:48 · answer #1 · answered by lpgnh3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You DO need a gas engineer as it's obviously a gas problem.
Could be poor venting/blocked flue or incorrect gas/air mixture setting. Whatever, it's DANGEROUS to use in this condition.
As for terminology most people would not expect an appliance designer/tester to come to the house and repair it, rather an engineer/technician, as people assume rightly or wrongly that an engineer would repair/investigate an issue such as this one.
In any case, does that mean that all those vans logo'd up with 'gas engineer' 'heating engineer' etc are all wrong? Or do they just offer testing services for manufacturers?
2006-09-24 10:05:04 · answer #2 · answered by 127.0.0.1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WARNING
It is a product of incomplete combustion which means the gas is not being fully used. Gas needs five times its volume of air to combust correctly. Carbon is incomplete combustion where its accompanying component is CO2.
It could be a flue blocked or blocked holes in the flame source.
Don't use it again until it is checked out and tell them to show you the cause before you contract into anything.
2006-09-24 04:44:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soot indicates a fuel/air burning problem.Better check it out soon. Blow out the burners and clean out the dust. Adjust the air mix. Perhaps call out the gas man to clean and service the unit.
2006-09-24 05:33:47 · answer #4 · answered by Spock 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turn it OFF NOW, Get it checked by a Corgi Engineer and purchase a Carbon Monoxide Detector. Agros / B & Q sell them.
2006-09-24 04:38:53 · answer #5 · answered by Big Tall Paul 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not burning properly, don't use it until the problem has been investigated and fixed by a gas engineer.
May well produce carbon monoxide which is deadly, so it's a serious issue.
2006-09-24 04:35:29 · answer #6 · answered by CeeO 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
FIRST OF ALL TURN IT OFF NOW it is emitting carbon monoxide which can KILL. Then get a corgi registered gas engineer in to service it. My guess is that he will condemn it if it's really old
2006-09-24 04:35:29 · answer #7 · answered by Denise W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The air for the flame proably needs adjusting. Do not try to do thid yourself unless your are certified to work on gas appliances.
2006-09-24 04:38:25 · answer #8 · answered by Leslie S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suggest call a local repair man... or maybe someone is just smoking pot in basement.... wait.. I change my mind.. call the cops instead the repairman
2006-09-24 04:33:56 · answer #9 · answered by Livin'TheLife 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
always a good idea to have regular maintenance on gas fired equipment to keep it running efficiently and safely
2006-09-24 04:57:37 · answer #10 · answered by Daddybear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋