Gas update

[ladyaray]

Thanks for all your help. I checked the pilot and all but one were out so I used the burner with the one that was on this morning and it went swimmingly.

Now, as for the others, do I need maintenance to do this, or is there a way I could light them myself without, say, blowing up my apartment complex? Because that would be sweet...

Comments

[boredatwork1]

I've never done it so I would suggest calling maintenance.

[sheeniebeanie]

Lighting a pilot light is something you can do yourself, but since you don't know your stove and don't have experience with it, I'd suggest that you have maintenance or your landlord show you how they do it, so you know for next time. Basically, you make sure all burners and the over are off, light one of those long matches (we used to have them for the fireplace) and hold it over the pilot. I've always had a landlord do it, so I'm not the best person to ask about how easy or scary it is.

[sbolger17]

I didn't read your previous post yet, so I don't know exactly what the problem was. But if the pilot lights below the burners on top of your stove are out, you can just relight them yourself with a match. I do it all the time and haven't blown anything up yet. On my stove, I can just lift up the top and get right to where the burners are. There's also a main one that lights up the oven that would be harder for me to reach, but the super told me once that I could do that one the same way.