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How do you light a pilot light?

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Turn the gas knob to the pilot setting, press it in and hold it, light the pilot while holding the gas knob down for a minute. Release the gas knob and turn it to the ON position. To make sure the gas heater is working properly, turn up the thermostat and see if the heater heats up.

In this way, is my pilot light out?

The pilot is a small flame that ignites the gas burner on your waterheater. When it goes out, first try relighting it, following the directions on the water heater label. If the pilot doesn't relight, or if it goes out right after lighting, by far the most common cause is a bad thermocouple.

How do you light a pilot light on a gas furnace?

Once the gas has had time to dissipate, turn the knob to "Pilot." Then, hold down the "Reset" button and bring the flame of a long lighter close to the pilot light opening. This should light the furnace pilot light. Once you are sure the pilot light is on, release your pressure on the reset button.

How do you light a pilot light on a stove?

Place your lit match or lighter by the gas jet. It should light immediately with a small blue flame. If the pilot lights for the stove are both on and you can still smell gas, please check to see if the third one for the oven is lit. You can see it if you open the broiler door and look all the way in the back.

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Do electric furnaces have a pilot light?

The standing pilot light was the regular way to ignite gas-powered furnaces for almost as long as these heating systems have existed. However, just like a pilot light going out, if your electric ignition fails, the gas jets in the burner will not come on and the furnace will provide no heat.

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Are pilot lights safe?

Once the home is safe from the fumes of gas, follow the directions to relight the pilot light. The pilot light should always burn blue — if it is an orange or red color, it is burning too hot and there is a problem there as well. And be aware that even a pilot light burning normally can cause a safety hazard.

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How do you light the pilot on a gas oven?

Check the temperature dial on the oven and make sure it is in the "Off" position.
Consult the owner's manual, if you have it, to locate the pilot light.
Open the broiler door if you can't find the pilot hole in the oven's main compartment.
Light a long match.
Remove your hand and the match immediately.

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How do you know if a gas valve is open or closed?

These valves make it easy to tell if they are open or closed. In the open position (gas is flowing) the handle (lever) will be parallel with the pipe, when it is closed (gas not flowing) the handle (lever) will be perpendicular to the pipe. This should make it easy for you to tell if the gas is on, or off.

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How do you turn off the pilot light?

Here is how to turn off the pilot light on a gas heater. First, turn your thermostat all the way down, so only the gas pilot light is burning. Next, locate the gas heater shut off valve. To turn the heater's gas valve off, press the on valve in, and then turn it to the off position.

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How long does it take for the water heater to heat up?

The average gas heater takes between 30 and 40 minutes to fully heat up the water in its tank. The average electric heater takes about twice as long as the average gas heater to fully heat up the water in its tank, so you can expect it to take between an hour and an hour and 20 minutes to heat up.

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Do you have to light a gas stove?

You can still manually light nearly every modern gas stove with a match or lighter, even if the igniter is broken. Matches are safer and will work better than typical cigarette lighters. Light match. Hold very close to the holes in the center of the burner that fire usually comes out of.

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Where do I find my furnace?

Typically your furnace is centrally located in the home. It is usually located in an area such as a utility closet (by a cold air return), garage, attic, basement, or crawlspace; in the case of a heat-pump (a dual-system) it will be located outside of the home.

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Do I have a furnace or a boiler?

So again, it's blowing warm air through ductwork, buuuut the warm air was heated by water from a boiler, not a furnace. So the warm air from your ducts thing is not 100% indicator of furnace. In most homes, a boiler would heat the house using baseboards that have water piping inside of them.

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What is the best way to heat your home?

Here are the main choices, from most efficient home heating system, to least efficient:

Solar heating.
Geothermal heating.
Wood heating.
Heat pump (non-geothermal)
Natural gas heating.
Oil heating.
Electric heating.

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Is it cheaper to keep your heating on all the time?

According to leading energy experts at the Energy Saving Trust, as well as British Gas, the idea that it's cheaper to leave the heating on low all day is a myth. (Using a timer's best, because your thermostat is designed to turn your heating on and off to keep your home at the temperature you set it.)

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What is the most efficient heating system?

The first complication is the fact electric radiators are 100% efficient when transferring electrical energy to heat. Gas boilers are only 90% efficient. So the most efficient heating system is electric. Yet, mains gas provides the most cost effective heating.

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Which heating is cheapest to run?

Electric heaters are all considered to be 100% efficient (i.e. they turn all the electricity they use into heat), but some are more expensive to run than others because they provide more heat. The cheapest are halogen heaters and oil-filled radiators; the most expensive are bar fires and fan heaters.

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Is it cheaper to heat with oil or electric?

What these heating costs show is that in the US both fuel oil furnaces and electricity furnaces are an expensive way to heat a home. To get cheaper heat using electricity you need a heat pump. The very cheap natural gas prices in the US mean gas heating is much cheaper, explaining its dominance for central heating.

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Is oil heat bad for you?

This scenario has been fueling the myth that gas is good, and oil is bad, for decades. Both new gas and new oil furnaces have high efficiencies. However, heating oil burns hotter than natural gas. This means it will not only heat the space in half the time but it will burn less fuel while doing so.

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Is it expensive to have electric heat?

The basic point is this: using electricity is a shockingly expensive way to heat your home unless you have a heat pump of some sort. At 16p/kWh per unit of usable heat, electric heating is three and half times more expensive than an efficient combi boiler using gas.

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Is it cheaper to run gas or electric heat?

Less expensive to operate: Almost everywhere in the country, natural gas is significantly cheaper than electricity. Faster heating: Gas heat tends to heat up the home faster than electric heat because the gas furnace produces maximum heat as soon as the burners start running.

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Is it cheaper to heat your house with gas or electric?

To buy one unit of mains gas (measured in kWh) you will pay about 4p / kWh. Conversely, one unit of electricity from the mains (also measure in kWh) will cost you about 15p/kWh. This means that gas is about 3-4 times cheaper than electricity per kWh.

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How are most homes heated?

A furnace works by blowing heated air through ducts that deliver the warm air to rooms throughout the house via air registers or grills. This type of heating system is called a ducted warm-air or forced warm-air distribution system. It can be powered by electricity, natural gas, or fuel oil.

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Is it cheaper to boil water with gas or electricity?

Only fill and boil the kettle with as much water as you need. Because gas is cheaper than electricity, it works out slightly cheaper to boil water on a gas hob than using an electric kettle, as long as you are boiling just the quantity you need and switch off the hob as soon as it has boiled.

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