How to clean this heater.

Hilly

Naturally I am away for the holidays and don't fly back just yet. My buddy has no heat from this heater. He said it's always worked great. If I recall it's massively oversized for the room. Then I remembered he got a dog a couple of years ago. So I said try cleaning the fins. How does this style unit open. It's obvious the fins need some cleaning. I'm hoping that's the only issue.
So the Q's are, what brand is this and how does it open.

Jamie Hall

A little hard to answer any of the questions... without at least one picture...

Hilly

Hahaha. Not sure what happened to the pictures.

Hilly

Heater

EBEBRATT-Ed

That's just a plain old convector. Probably 4 screws in the front cover and pull the big front cover off starting at the bottom and vacuum it out.

Hilly

I said pull the front.... I figure it was either hinged or friction fit.

STEVEusaPA

There's probably multi layers of paint hiding the screws. I've seen them where you can take the top off, and the rest of the cover, down the 2 sides is nailed or screwed (usually nailed) into the wall.

Alan Welch

I think that one just lifts up straight and then pulls out , may need to cut through the paint at seams on both sides first. Would also check bleeder if forced hot water, is it a monoflow system?

MilanD

Also, that hole in the middle is for a missing rotating knob which operates a damper on a screw inside the convector box. If that thing is detached and the damper has dropped closed, it'll stop the convection and despite a hot convector, have no heat coming out the grill.

Hilly

Thanks @MilanD

Steamhead

Attach your shop vac hose to the outlet and blow the dust out.

Hilly

That's what I told him to try. I'll be back tomorrow so I'd say I'll be over there for sure.