[Sca-cooks] venting stoves

[Edouard de Bruyerecourt]

Marged wrote:
>
> To my best knowledge, home stoves are not required to be vented. I have
> some experience in this area (not lots), and I had a long conversation
> with the gas-fixit-man a couple years ago. I was getting the "fix the
> crack in your furnace heat exchanger or you'll wake up dead" lecture
> when I asked him why the gas range wasn't vented, then. He looked
> sheepish and said there was no good reason, other than one tends to have
> the stove on when one is awake. . .

Could be, but I'm going to guess the 'lethal furnace' is a mental legacy
of oil-burning furnaces. Oil burns less effeciently than propane and
produces more carbon monoxide (the lethal part). One of the stronger
selling points of natural gas is it burns far more cleaner and
efficiently (i.e. completely) than other natural fuels (wood, coal,
oil).

Edouard