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CORGI and EXHAUSTO Ltd working together to assure safety of gas open fireplace installations

CORGI, the national watchdog for gas safety in the United Kingdom, has granted its accreditation as recommended equipment to the chimney fan systems marketed for gas open fires and domestic gas boilers by EXHAUSTO Ltd. Recognising that the unique fail-safe system built into EXHAUSTO chimney fan systems for open gas fires and domestic boiler installations is a major safety benefit, CORGI will be working with EXHAUSTO to make the benefits known both to CORGI-registered gas installers and to the general public.

A major factor in the safety of any open fire or boiler appliance is maintaining a reliable chimney draught. Where the natural draught is not reliable (which it often is not), the best solution is usually an EXHAUSTO chimney fan system. An EXHAUSTO chimney fan system maintains a constant and controlled upward chimney draught which carries most if not all of the very low levels of CO that are often present in any home burning fossil fuels safely out of the house. If an appliance develops a fault and begin to emit dangerous levels of carbon monoxide, the same will be true – the chimney fan system will extract most if not all of the gas and keep the occupants of the home safe.

A key safety factor applying only to EXHAUSTO chimney fan systems for gas fires and domestic boiler installations is that, as well as ensuring that fumes and combustion products go safely up the chimney, EXHAUSTO chimney fan systems turn off the gas supply to the fire of boiler if the chimney becomes obstructed. As soon as the chimney obstruction is cleared, and the fan can draw a proper draught up the chimney, the gas supply is restored and the gas appliance can be used as normal. The EXHAUSTO chimney fan system is the only one available on the market that has a fully certified fail-safe facility that provides both safety and the opportunity to have an open gas fireplace.

Commenting on the CORGI accreditation, Peter Roege, Managing Director of EXHAUSTO Ltd, explained that representatives of CORGI had visited the company’s factory and had been impressed by the quality systems and the company culture of continuous improvement.

“EXHAUSTO chimney fan systems can make a major contribution to the safety of users of open gas fires and boiler applications in the UK” he said. “We shall now be able to make more people and organisations aware of the importance of our chimney fan systems to keeping people safe”.