I h ave a Superior ga s fireplace and all works. But not much heat coming out with full flame at high. It has a vent at the chimmney that is open. Does it work with it closed? Model FAK-1500

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You would need ceramic gas fireplace logs, fake logs that work by helping display the real flames, plus radiating heat with their hot surface. Most require venting, the same as real wood.

I would suggest looking under the bottom louver of your fireplace as you have a b-vent or direct vent gas fireplace. From the looks of it alone it appears as its an early model Heat-N-Glo fireplace. If you flip down the bottom panel, where the two gold strips are at, underneath the gas valve you will find a sticker or a plate that has the model, manufacturer, and serial number. I work for a manufacturer that has been in the fireplace business for over 30 years and I'm betting $10 to a donut that is a Heat-N-Glo fireplace. Once you get the model, manufactuer, serial number, and date code sometimes you can search at www.heatnglo.com for AUTHORIZED dealers who can service your fireplace properly instead of a chimney sweep who may or may not be qualified to "trouble shoot" what is going on with the fireplace. It looks like an 8000GDV to me.
Best guess is a new pilot assembly if its a direct vent. If its a b-vent then a high limit switch might be needed as well with it cutting off that fast. It also could be a flue disconnect. Long story short I would find out the model, manufacturer, and then get on the manufacturer's website or call them to find out an AUTHORIZED servicing dealer for your fireplace. I hope this helps.

Are the flames more than a couple of inches high? Do they have a lot of yellow coloring to them? Please be sure that the orifice for the fireplace is converted to the proper gas type. A common mistake is to have a natural gas orifice in a LP fireplace. The flames are way too high and the heat is very intense and this creates a very unsafe fire hazard situation. You may want to have a qualified technician come out and examine the fireplace for you.

Here's a few things to look for. After you light the pilot and turn on the burner, look at the pilot flame. Is it still a strong blue flame and it is still heating the thermocouple? If the pilot flame is a lazy yellow, it may not be able to keep a good enough flame on the thermocouple to keep it hot. The solution? Turn it all off and let it cool down. Take a can of compressed air, like you use to clean computer keyboards, and using the attached straw, blow out the dust or spider web that's partially blocking your pilot orifice. Where the pilot flame is usually lit, blow right down that flange, as well as through the air hole that is on the side of the pilot assembly. If you do it right, the pilot flame should be a nice and strong blue color. Another thought. Is this a vented or unvented fireplace? If it's vented, make sure it has the oxygen it needs to burn by checking for blocked vents or opening a closed fireplace fume above it.
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The fan should be installed behind the bottom grill, and then it should blow air around the firebox which then exits out the top grill. Now saying that, let me explain the actual problem you will face. Because you have a open faced wood fireplace, you will not get the heat your looking for, the fire needs 400 cubic feet of air per hour and that air is taken from your opening. Also the inner box doesn't heat up enuff to produce alot of heat on the skin so if you have the fan blowing full blast, it will only cycle the air and not allow it time to heat up as it cycles around the box. I suggest turning the fan speed down so its 1/2 way on or lower, this allows the air time to heat while cycling around the box, but in the end you still won't have a good heater as the fireplace itself isn't one, you should look at having it converted to direct vent gas or ripping it out and replacing it with a airtight wood.

top damper wide open and bottom damper wide open will burn very hot but too fast if you close the top vent off it will smoke in the house the idea is not to smoke the house but once you have a good fire lit with hot cinders to cut back on the top to ceep some heat in cut back on the bottom to burn slower if this is a metal box wood burner it should heat great if it is a standard fireplace with a glass door you need to be careful how close the flame is to the glass it can break. glass front fireplaces don't heat as well as an insert wood burner let me know if this is uesful or any more assistance needed thank you