On Tuesday, 8 October 2019 19:12:17 UTC+1, Gareth's was W7 now W10 Downstairs Computer wrote:
Installed only 4 years ago and only had little
use and now will not strike up. You can hold the
lever down to bring up the pilot light, but on releasing
the lever, instead of the fire bursting into life, the pilot light
just goes out.

The gas engineer who installed it thinks it might be
a thermostat problem and proposes to charge £90 to
replace it and then, if still a problem, to charge
a further £190 to change the gas valve. (And will
not give a reduced quote to replace both anyway
despite that a large part of the effort involved
would be common to both operations)

THis is on top of already having paod £!60 this year
for the service and replacement of the front bar
supporting the coals.

I'm loth to spend money when the cause of the fault
remains unknown lest the total money paid this year
would exceed the cost of a completely new fire.

Does anyone have experience of this particular gas fire
and its faults?

Thermocouple failure is most likely. Bad gas valve a lot less likely. ISTR paying around £6 for the last thermocouple.


NT