I've removed the vent pipe to this oven in order to clean, and to me it looks so much better with out it. How necessary is it for the oven to be ivented to the outside?
Venting vintage gas oven question
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arbilab
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Even with the hood fan running, a long oven cycle (turkey) gave me a headache. Juzbout had to be monoxide. This with a 'conventional' gas stove probly from the 70s.
I don't know whose idea unvented gas ovens were but I'm not convinced it was a good one. Unless all you make is the occasional tray of cookies OR you can arrange to have the kitchen windows open.
I don't know whose idea unvented gas ovens were but I'm not convinced it was a good one. Unless all you make is the occasional tray of cookies OR you can arrange to have the kitchen windows open.
It's ass necessary as you having to vent a gas clothes dryer outside or venting some sort of gas heat source.
Early gas stoves were vented because some places had very poisonous coal gas or "city" gas. Natural gas and modern LP gas are not as poisonous, but you should have ventilation anytime you have an open gas flame. I wonder how many of the early gas stoves were vented because they replaced solid fuel ranges. I don't ever remember seeing a kerosene oven with a vent pipe. Funny that the ovens were vented and not the stove tops.
Thanks guys
I've called around to places that sell/refurbish vintage gas ranges..
The most consistent answer I've gotten so far, is that venting the oven just vents off excess heat while in use.
(More useful during summer months)
This old stove dose not have any standing pilot lights.
What most said, was to be carful not to block the vent hole on top of the oven. Other than that ??
I've called around to places that sell/refurbish vintage gas ranges..
The most consistent answer I've gotten so far, is that venting the oven just vents off excess heat while in use.
(More useful during summer months)
This old stove dose not have any standing pilot lights.
What most said, was to be carful not to block the vent hole on top of the oven. Other than that ??
Stan,
I think the vent pipe on these older gas stoves was mostly aesthetic and heat related. My 1931 home doesn't have a chimney anywhere near where the stove is. The stove location is the original and the vent fan is in the wall close by.
I think the pipe was a throwback wood burning stoves of earlier times.
I think the vent pipe on these older gas stoves was mostly aesthetic and heat related. My 1931 home doesn't have a chimney anywhere near where the stove is. The stove location is the original and the vent fan is in the wall close by.
I think the pipe was a throwback wood burning stoves of earlier times.
Hi Travis, and thanks for stopping by
Mine dose have a chimney nearbyb but blocked. There may have been a stove with a trash burner?
Guess I'll hang on to the vent I have, for heat related purposes.
Thanks Tom for explaining the gas of the past, makes sense.
Mine dose have a chimney nearbyb but blocked. There may have been a stove with a trash burner?
Guess I'll hang on to the vent I have, for heat related purposes.
Thanks Tom for explaining the gas of the past, makes sense.
ibuzzard
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Sorry, cannot resist . . .
"Thanks Tom for explaining the gas of the past . . ."
The past gas?
"Thanks Tom for explaining the gas of the past . . ."
The past gas?
Here is some interesting reading on Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: Gas-fired Kitchen Ranges. I think older gas stoves were vented out because you could not regulate the ovens. They didn't have thermostats and people forgot to turn them off which concentrated the carbon monoxide in the house. My dads house in Napa, Stan had a decorative tin plate above their stove covering the old flue. I do remember until they got a stove with electronic ignition, the kitchen window was always cracked open about an inch. Your stove Stan is a gem.
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