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Propane, LP, or Natural Gas cooking appliance repair procedures & manuals.

This article series explains the cause, diagnosis, and cure of gas appliances, including gas cooktop or gas range igniter problems that cause continuous clicking, or failure to ignite gas burners or a gas oven properly.ed.

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Gas Cooktop Range & Oven Installation & Repair Guides

Rainbow gas stove antique at InspectApedia.comHere we give basic diagnostic and repair steps for gas fueled cooking appliances and we provide provide installation, service, and users guides for popular cooktops and ranges that use propane, LP gas or natural gas.

Shown here: the Bertazzoni-MAS304GASXE Freestanding 30-inch Gas Range

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Gas Range & Gas Oven Troubleshooting & Repair

Photo: antique Rainbow gas stove photo contributed by an InspectApedia.com reader. [Click to enlarge any image]

Watch out: Gas ranges burn either natural gas or propane. Switching fuels is possible, but some equipment modifications are necessary.

See GAS BTUH, CUBIC FEET & ENERGY for details.

Watch out Gas leaks: This is a serious condition. If gas is smelled, the occupant should leave the house and contact the utility.

No devices should be used in the home that may cause a spark, including cell phones and computers. See these articles:

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Oven Hazards

Fire-resistant oven door gasekt, not asbestos (C) InspectApedia.com Watch out: Defective oven doors can open violently, or fail to close properly, and obstructed oven vents can cause the oven to overheat.

Oven door gasket problems may prevent doors from closing tightly, causing inefficient operation and overheating of the kitchen.

Where an anti-tip bracket has not been provided, the oven can tip over and cause injury.

This can happen if children stand on an open oven door to reach for something, for example.

Our close-up photo of a modern oven door gasket shown here was provided by a reader who was worried that the gasket was releasing harmful fiberglass into her home.

This was not a valid concern: the gasket, which is not made of fiberglass, sheds so few fibres that it would not be a detectable source of airborne fibres in the home unless it were somehow severely mechanically damaged.

Watch out: the glass on glass-fronted oven doors can shatter suddenly, risking injury to anyone nearby - at least on some models such as older Jenn-Air wall or built-in ovens.

See OVEN DOOR REPAIR / REPLACE, Jenn-Air

 

Gas Cooking Appliance Installation, Service & Repair Manuals

Bertazzoni MAS304GASXE gas range at InspectApedia.com

 

 

 

 

Magic Chef gas stove antique at the DuBois Farms orchardfs, Highland NY (C) Daniel Friedman at InspectApedia.comMagic Chef Antique gas range at Dubois Farms, in Highland NY.

Air shutter adjustment after converting from LP to Natural Gas at a cooktop - at InspectApedia.com Watch out: use an expert, making a mistake can cause fire or explosion

Illustration: an excerpt from Viking's LP-NG cooktop conversion kit instructions.


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