http://fixitnow.com/wp/2004/12/30/mailbag-using-your-gas-range-to-heat-your-home/ Your appliance repair weapon of mass instruction for all your appliance repair needs! Tue, 15 May 2012 21:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://fixitnow.com/wp/2004/12/30/mailbag-using-your-gas-range-to-heat-your-home/comment-page-1/#comment-27757 Tim M Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:36:59 +0000 http://fixitnow.com/wp/?p=693#comment-27757 OK. I believe the oven is allowed to put out 800 ppm on STARTUP, that is as it is getting going. The actual rating may be 800 ppm MAXIMUM, but the maximum will be hit as it starts up, and then drop significantly, probably in the 25 ppm ballpark. Also, I believe, though I may be mistaken, that this is measured in the EXHAUST PORT of the oven. So if the measurement is that you don't have to worry unless you have duct taped your mouth to seal it onto the exhaust port. Unless your room has zero air changes per hour, you are going to be doing fine. As long as you are not in some sealed chamber, the ppm at the exhaust port is then diluted into the entire room, and it becomes 25 ppm, maybe? Now if you are using the oven to heat your house it is running full bore non-stop. That is dangerous and stupid. If you close the door and bake, what happens, it's on a bit, off for long while, than on for another bit. If that is getting the ppm above 25 or so, something is seriously wrong. OK. I believe the oven is allowed to put out 800 ppm on STARTUP, that is as it is getting going. The actual rating may be 800 ppm MAXIMUM, but the maximum will be hit as it starts up, and then drop significantly, probably in the 25 ppm ballpark. Also, I believe, though I may be mistaken, that this is measured in the EXHAUST PORT of the oven. So if the measurement is that you don’t have to worry unless you have duct taped your mouth to seal it onto the exhaust port. Unless your room has zero air changes per hour, you are going to be doing fine. As long as you are not in some sealed chamber, the ppm at the exhaust port is then diluted into the entire room, and it becomes 25 ppm, maybe? Now if you are using the oven to heat your house it is running full bore non-stop. That is dangerous and stupid. If you close the door and bake, what happens, it’s on a bit, off for long while, than on for another bit. If that is getting the ppm above 25 or so, something is seriously wrong.

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