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Fixing the little things

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There have been a kazillion things that have been added off the 'to do' list for the trailer... who would have thought something so small could cause so much work?! I've been shopping and reading and tweaking, yet somehow I feel like I've gotten nothing done. I started by checking out the furnace (or do you call it a heater in a trailer?). I know this works because the previous owner lit it when we checked out the trailer to buy it. I should have paid more attention to how he lit it. Of course, there were instructions but they were well hidden behind a part of the heater controls. The heater controls that I have no idea what they do... is there an "instant shooting flames" button I shouldn't push? I poked around a bit more until I found the screw holding the instruction label in place (I didn't push the "insta-explode" button nor the "heater-will-never-work-again" button)  and then I managed to extract it from the si