Long saga... Paid a mobile service engineer chap to install that and a few other jobs. He said it wasn't working on gas, but worked on electric, mumbled about calling him out when I wanted it sorted, oh, and it needed a new part to work on gas.
Hmmmnnn I thought. It worked on gas before it was fitted. Tried it myself when first put in, would occasionally light the pilot light but wouldn't stay on. Thought it might be the thermo-coupler not kicking in. Left it for a long time. Had the service engineer out again as he had forgotten to secure the fridge, which jumped out when we came to Wolverely.
Well I'm soon to be going to a fest site, no EHU, so thought I'd sort the fridge. I cleaned up after the chap had finished installing, securing. Wondered if it was just dust, etc that was causing it to not operate. Undid the huge air vent/exhaust and hoovered from the outside, with a nozzle/tube, right down to the floor at the back of the fridge, then repeated the process from inside, underneath the fridge to front and side. This process lead to me finding several large pieces of insulating material from the inner skin of the van where the air vent had been put in...
And it now works perfectly. Fired the little piezo igniter up, watched it stay lit for a mo before letting go, stayed lit, turned to highest setting and left it half an hour to see if it was going to get cold. It froze some little ice cubes!
The moral of the story is, don't always assume that an appliance has malfunctioning parts before checking out the easy stuff first. Like hoovering underneath and behind!
And now for the hard part - which is boxing it in. It didn't need doing when using electric, but does to work on gas. So I need to get some wood, cut it to size and fit in the gap. If I say it quickly it doesn't sound so daunting, but I'm no great carpenter!
Jay
Hmmmnnn I thought. It worked on gas before it was fitted. Tried it myself when first put in, would occasionally light the pilot light but wouldn't stay on. Thought it might be the thermo-coupler not kicking in. Left it for a long time. Had the service engineer out again as he had forgotten to secure the fridge, which jumped out when we came to Wolverely.
Well I'm soon to be going to a fest site, no EHU, so thought I'd sort the fridge. I cleaned up after the chap had finished installing, securing. Wondered if it was just dust, etc that was causing it to not operate. Undid the huge air vent/exhaust and hoovered from the outside, with a nozzle/tube, right down to the floor at the back of the fridge, then repeated the process from inside, underneath the fridge to front and side. This process lead to me finding several large pieces of insulating material from the inner skin of the van where the air vent had been put in...
And it now works perfectly. Fired the little piezo igniter up, watched it stay lit for a mo before letting go, stayed lit, turned to highest setting and left it half an hour to see if it was going to get cold. It froze some little ice cubes!
The moral of the story is, don't always assume that an appliance has malfunctioning parts before checking out the easy stuff first. Like hoovering underneath and behind!
And now for the hard part - which is boxing it in. It didn't need doing when using electric, but does to work on gas. So I need to get some wood, cut it to size and fit in the gap. If I say it quickly it doesn't sound so daunting, but I'm no great carpenter!
Jay

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