Burning Smell from Propex Heater

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Burning Smell from Propex Heater

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Hello friends

Well we turned our heater on for the first time in months this week and the smell of burning was overwhelming. SO I turned it off again sharpish. Any ideas? It smelled like more than burning dust and it's made me a bit anxious, am going to investigate it a bit further today :?

Any advice would be welcome.

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Phone Propex - they're very helpful so I've heard.
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1664 wrote:Phone Propex - they're very helpful so I've heard.


Do as Bren says & phone Propex. Richard Kitchener is their technical bod & he is very helpful.

Tel: 023 8052 8555

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Re: Burning Smell from Propex Heater

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check and clean out the inlet and outlet, if it smells like dust it probably is

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Want to borrow my glasses? :D
"It smelled like more than burning dust"
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Thanks guys, I phoned Propex, they were really helpful, they advised me not to use it but to get it checked out, have got a man coming round next week :o Can't be doing without me heater.

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JacquiVintage wrote:Can't be doing without me heater.
Too damn right - had mine running last night :D
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