Pilot Light Gas Wall Oven

This may require the help of another person.

Pilot light gas wall oven.

If you have tried this process several times and still can t light your gas oven there may be a problem with the pilot light and you should call a professional to come take a look at it. Push in the oven control while you hold a lighter in front of the pilot orifice. Open the oven door removing the racks if necessary for easy access to the pilot. Ovens in older homes often employ a small flame in their base called a pilot light.

The oven knobs on some stoves have a specific position for lighting the pilot. The pilot light is a small gas light meant to burn continuously in order to light a larger burner when needed but it may go out if a draft extinguishes the light its valve is dirty or the. Before you light it turn on the two back burners on the stove to bleed air from the gas line. Open the oven and expose the pilot and burner assembly by removing the cover plate and flame spreader if there is one.

Turn the oven knob to the temperature you want to set it at. Others require you to press the knob to start the gas. Turn on the gas at the feed line s main valve. The pilot orifice is at the end of a small tube just above the oven burners.

Some pilots burn constantly at a low level.