I pulled my 40 year-old Kenmore oven to replace the igniter and noticed that there is no direct vent and really barely an opening on the top of the oven. There is a slight opening in the knockout piece on top of the oven and there is vent above it to the outside but there's a good 3 inch gap between oven and vent and the opening sits a good foot horizontally back from the vent location. . It's been this way for 40 years and I've lived here for 20 and all has been OK so far, but is it really OK?
I'm in a development built around 1960 and all the houses had gas wall ovens with no vents. Is it good. Not really as it's allowing C.O. into the house. Older houses had a lot of leakage so it didn't present that much off a problem.
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When I push the start button on my dryer, it makes noise like it is starting but when I release the start button it turns off. I replaced the[h1]Thermal Fuse WP3390719[/h1]
but that did not work so I think it may be the timer. How do you use a jumper wire to see if teh timer is bad?
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Mark
Hi,
The shutoff valve behind my gas range is rusted and need to replace it asap. HD has them cheap but plumbers cost looks too high. Thinking of diy. My questions are:
1) If i shutoff the main gas in my basement, will i have to stop all other gas apps like furnace, water heater etc? Do i need to re-light them?
2) Can i put the shutoff quickly cnd open the windows to let any gas escape?
Any reason this is not diy? Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks
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