Our Gas stove

[Dunit35]

So we moved in to this house and the gas stove looks fairly old and it was dirty. Tuesday I attempted to clean the oven out and five minutes into it the smoke alarm went off, with no smoke in the air. I didn't smell gas or anything. So I just shut it off and didn't think anything about it. Today my fiance tried to use the oven and the same thing happened again. She said she kinda smelled gas (but the scent was very strong). What's wrong with it? I've heard it could be carbon manoxide.

How do I shut the gas valve off on it? Whatever the problem is, it obviously isn't safe and we're not using it until we find out what's wrong.

[SPchief]

Do you rent or own?

[Dunit35]

rent.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

rent.


Call your landlord in the morning and get his ass over there to deal with it.

[SPchief]

rent.


Call your landlord asap.

[Dunit35]

What do you guys think the problem is? I cant find anything on the internet about the problem.

[SPchief]

Call your landlord in the morning and get his ass over there to deal with it.


I wouldn't even wait until the morning. Don't **** with gas.

[Dunit35]

I wouldn't even wait until the morning. Don't **** with gas.


I don't smell gas and didn't smell it when I cleaned the oven. She said she kinda thought she smelt a little bit of a gas smell. But once the oven shut off she couldn't smell anything.

[SPchief]

What do you guys think the problem is? I cant find anything on the internet about the problem.


I'm not sure to be honest. But before trying to figure out what the problem is, 1. shut the gas off to the whole place and 2. call your landlord.

[luv]

We had employees getting headaches once. We checked out AC. I forget what gas it was that it was leaking, but it was scentless. Not all gas smells (why does that sound bad...lol).

[Dunit35]

I'm not sure to be honest. But before trying to figure out what the problem is, 1. shut the gas off to the whole place and 2. call your landlord.

What the smoke alarm is saying that if the beep is a pulsing sound or something then combustion is in the air. Is combustion smoke or what?

[Phobia]

1. Your smoke alarm doesn't detect natural gas or Carbon dioxide.
2. Natural gas has an additive that smells so leaks can be detected.

Chances are you have a hyperactive smoke detector.

Your landlord will charge you if you leave that stove dirty when you move out. The least he/she could do is give you a clean stove when you moved in.

[Dunit35]

1. Your smoke alarm doesn't detect natural gas or Carbon dioxide.
2. Natural gas has an additive that smells so leaks can be detected.

Chances are you have a hyperactive smoke detector.

Your landlord will charge you if you leave that stove dirty when you move out. The least he/she could do is give you a clean stove when you moved in.


You don't think it's weird that it goes off only when we tried to use the oven? Her mom got carbon monoxide poisoning once so she's scared.

I already cleaned the stove, our landlord is a straight bitch. The stove was horrible looking before I cleaned it.

[Phobia]

Unless you have a special carbon monoxide detector, your smoke detector will not react to the stuff. I wouldn't sweat it. Turn the stove off and sleep. Resolve it tomorrow.

[Dunit35]

Unless you have a special carbon monoxide detector, your smoke detector will not react to the stuff. I wouldn't sweat it. Turn the stove off and sleep. Resolve it tomorrow.


It doesn't really bother me much, but the fiance wants it figured out quick...I do as she says....or I get cut off.

[SPchief]

Unless you have a special carbon monoxide detector, your smoke detector will not react to the stuff. I wouldn't sweat it. Turn the stove off and sleep. Resolve it tomorrow.

Alot of people are putting in carbon monoxide detectors nowadays. I know my last apartment in Springtown had one, and when I bought this house it had one. But you are the resident contractor so I'll defer to you. I'm just one to not screw around with gas.

[SPchief]

It doesn't really bother me much, but the fiance wants it figured out quick...I do as she says....or I get cut off.


heh

[luv]

You don't think it's weird that it goes off only when we tried to use the oven? Her mom got carbon monoxide poisoning once so she's scared.

I already cleaned the stove, our landlord is a straight bitch. The stove was horrible looking before I cleaned it.
My smoke alarm at my old apartment would go off almost every time I cooked something with the oven at 400 degrees. No smoke. Heat, maybe?

[luv]

It doesn't really bother me much, but the fiance wants it figured out quick...I do as she says....or I get cut off.
You do know you're not married yet, right?

[Phobia]

Alot of people are putting in carbon monoxide detectors nowadays. I know my last apartment in Springtown had one, and when I bought this house it had one. But you are the resident contractor so I'll defer to you. I'm just one to not screw around with gas.

Well, if he ceases use of the oven then carbon monoxide won't be a problem. If there was a gas issue he'd definitely smell it. That smell is unmistakable. I still say hyperactive smoke detector.

[Phobia]

My smoke alarm at my old apartment would go off almost every time I cooked something with the oven at 400 degrees. No smoke. Heat, maybe?

Heat detectors are generally equipped with a melt trigger and are good for one use.

Smoke detectors don't necessarily need billowing black clouds of smoke to set them off.

[Dunit35]

Well, if he ceases use of the oven then carbon monoxide won't be a problem. If there was a gas issue he'd definitely smell it. That smell is unmistakable. I still say hyperactive smoke detector.


When they turned on the gas they had to come back a few hours later due to a leak. I'll never mistake that smell again.

[cdcox]

What Phobia said. Overactive smoke detector, which goes off even when you can't see smoke.

Cleaning the oven may help.

[Baby Lee]

What Phobia said. Overactive smoke detector, which goes off even when you can't see smoke.

Cleaning the oven may help.
Yeah, some are especially attuned to, for lack of a better term, hot dust. I know every time I turn my heat on in the fall for the first time the alarm will go off because dust had settled on the heating elements over the summer, and then gets circulated.

[the Talking Can]

i recommend using a match to see what is going on inside your oven...

[Skip Towne]

Is the pilot light lit? If not, light it to see if that helps. It should be in a compartment at the bottom of the stove.

[Bugeater]

What Phobia said. Overactive smoke detector, which goes off even when you can't see smoke.

Cleaning the oven may help.
Yep, ours is the same way. I have to take the battery out of it every time we use the self-cleaning cycle on our oven. It doesn't take much to set it off.

[FAX]

Dang, Mr. Dunit35. What kind of house is this? First spiders, now unexplained alarms going off?

Did you move to Amityville?

FAX

[Halfcan]

GET OUT OF THE HOUSE NOW IT IS GOING TO BLOW UP!!!!!!!!!!!