If your slide control Elgin & Hall gas fire won’t switch on, your going to want to change the batteries. When we get called out to slide control gas fires that won’t switch on, most of the time it’s because the batteries are flat.
The Batteries are located in the fire, and this video shows you how to change them.
If you’ve changed the batteries and it still won’t switch on, the next step will be to get a gas safe registered engineer to come and service your gas fire.