"ing" wrote in message
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Jonathan Kamens wrote:
First of all, you can't do this safely if you have a gas
dryer, because the carbon monoxide fumes from the gas
combustion are vented along with the hot air.

Hope this isn't a dumb question - bear with me if it is. I'm just
puzzled is all, and a real mechanical dweeb when it comes to stuff
like this.

I have both a gas clothes dryer and a gas stove ... (also gas furnace
and gas water heater), but here's the question ... if there are
dangerous carbon monoxide fumes that are released from a gas dryer
due to gas combustion, how come I don't have that problem when I use the
gas stove and gas oven? Or do I? Am I supposed to be venting the fumes
from my gas stove elements to the outside someplace? If so, nobody ever
told me that - it's been over 8 years without a problem. I *do* have the
gas dryer vented to outside, and the furnace as well - just not the
stove or the water heater.

Don't know about gas stoves BUT not having a water heater vented?? I thought
even the super efficient ones (gas powered) were vented.


thanks for any explanation offered.

ing