Gas Stove - Venting?

[ARCOgraphite]

I have a magic chef slide in gas range in the island converted to LP. No hood or outside venting. Starting to worry about carbon monoxide as the wife is using the oven for hours some days.

on another note, I have to work on the unit as, according to the wife, its not maintaining baking temp - checking the thermocouple first but I have to pull the unit out of its spot as I don't have a wiring diagram to check impedance back from the control panel.

 

[4WD]

CO monitor ?

 

[bioburner]

Get yourself
a C0 and gas detector. They are around $30. Getting to be required in any habitable structure with gas heating sources

 

[Pop_Rivit]

In a tight house, continued operation of a kitchen range producing 800 ppm carbon monoxide (maximum acceptable level) without extra ventilation will cause carbon monoxide to rise to unacceptable levels. I personally would never have a gas range/stove/cooking appliance without proper ventilation.

 

[Bandito440]

Carbon monoxide is worst from incomplete combustion. You should be fine if the stove is burning efficiently. Install a carbon monoxide detector for peace of mind.

Install a vent hood sometime. Hours of cooking will deposit grease on your ceiling otherwise.

 

[SZR48207]

How tightly sealed is your house? This is something that should be taken into account as well.

If you've ever crawled around an attic to air seal any drywall penetrations, you start to realize that the sum of all those air gaps is the same as a softball sized hole in one of your exterior walls.

You could always crack a window open while cooking for longer periods of time. The other benefit of this is moisture relief since the combustion of gas often introduces moisture to the air.

Other than that, a proper range hood that vents outside would be the logical next step.

 

[4WD]

Or if really difficult to run a vent pipe - the ventless at least have grease screens ...
The over the range microwaves have fans and grease filters ...

 

[zzyzzx]

I've run my stove plenty with a CO monitor sitting in the same room at zero the whole time. I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[ARCOgraphite]

Thanks guys. Yeah a new co monitor is a good idea, I have a 15 yo plug in unit when I was worried about leakage from my wood stove. Never went off. Time for 2 new units. Wife has been complaining about headaches a lot and she works over the oven a lot as she like to roast and bake.

The house is pretty leaky as its a a cape style log cabin with just 6over6 stacked logs and no gasketing, but there is no 2nd floor joists to run pipe..
Its a bit of work maybe, but I can swap the stove to the sink position that is on the outside wall and put the sink in the island. Then I can vent outside.

 

[tgrudzin]

I think I can help. It's not the thermocouple, it is the glow plug/igniter. No need to pull range, it's handle from inside the stove. Will take service guy about 10-15 minutes to repair. a place called 'Repair Clinic is good for how to videos. The symptom is typical of what repair/service people mention. It heats fine, but when called for re-heating to maintain temperature, the glow gas to ignite gas doesn't always work.

Don't chase the thermocoupler until after you have determine this isn't the problem.

 

[ARCOgraphite]

I had replaced the ignitor 2 years ago. Could be bad again, I just watched it work but it seems to heat up fast and white/yellow hot.

 

[bioburner]

The older CO units had a shorter life span, about 8 years if my memory serves me right. The CO with explosive gas monitor put reasonably close to the stove should do the trick. So many videos of houses being blown to shreds with gas. We had a man die of CO couple weeks ago in a new home as he was attempting a furnace repair

 

[Wolf359]

Originally Posted By: bioburner
The older CO units had a shorter life span, about 8 years if my memory serves me right. The CO with explosive gas monitor put reasonably close to the stove should do the trick. So many videos of houses being blown to shreds with gas. We had a man die of CO couple weeks ago in a new home as he was attempting a furnace repair


I would get a separate detector. I believe a CO detector is actually an electro-chemical sensor and it starts to beep after about 7 years of usage. If there's one that's 15 years old, the batteries are probably dead, hit the test button and see if it still works. Smoke alarms can last 15 years but the failure rate increases with age so that's why my state recently said you had to replace any that were more than 10 years old when selling a house. And yes, most houses I see don't have any venting for a stove, you normally only see that with a heater.

 

[supton]

Our house is decently sealed up, no range vent, and the wife likes to cook. No issues with CO. That said, we have issues with moisture levels inside the house in winter, and have to run a dehumidifier (plenty of sagging drywall now, iced up windows, etc).