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How do you know if your gas stove is dangerous?
So this place I am renting ... I have discussed this before here back in the winter ... the stove doesn't really work ... it's gas, there are no knobs, but I can still turn the flame on top of the four burners which all work, and apparently the oven works, but it takes a long, long time to light.
The pilot light down on the bottom is on, but when I turn the oven on, it takes several minutes more than five for the row of flames on the bottom to all light. Thus gas fills the house.
When my mother was here last week, she turned on the burner on the top and I could smell the gas all the way upstairs ... and the smell of gas can be smelled throughout the kitchen and even upstairs.
Do I need to call the gas company? I don't have an account with them, the landlord does ... but I have discussed this issue several times with her and she is reluctant to fix it ... she says it's fine, I told her I was not comfortable using the oven and have not since Jan 1.
I even told her I would buy a new one and give her the old one ... but I feel until I get a specialist in to condemn the thing, she won't move on it.
The common sense approach seems just to move, but with the broken leg and having just moved in in January, I don't really want to move just yet.
Thoughts? Thanks for any insight you can share.
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