On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 08:59:09 -0000, Brian Gaff \(Sofa\) wrote:

Really? They replaced Paraffin heaters but really they do give off as
much water vapour and pong ...

Portable gas heaters do shove out a fair bit of water vapour but they
don't smell anything as strongly as a paraffin one.

... so unless you experience power cuts a lot its not worth having them
unless you love cleaning and decorating every few years.

Gas burns very clean compared to even a well adjusted and set up
paraffin heater.

I do hope this thread is actually recent.

Probably not.

I have installed flogas bottle in my calor fir which ran out but
the
burners won't light but pilot light is on

1) Has the "new" bottle got gas in it?

2) A portable heater normally runs on butane (blue bottles from
Calor). Butane won't vapourise at low temperatures. If this new
cylinder has been stored outside or in an unheated garge it might be
too cold to vapourise at a rate suffcient for the burners but OK for
the pilot. Wait for it to warm up.

3) Lump of crud blocking the outlet valve. Remove the regulator and
push the pin down in the centre of the connection on the cylinder.
Fairly powerful jet of gas should emerge. Don't have you face over it
and probably best to do outdoors...

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Cheers
Dave.