We'll be buying a new gas oven soon. The local appliance store wants
a few hundred bucks to deliver and install. I have a truck big enough
to haul it and neighbors to help get it in the house.

How difficult is it to install the new oven? Some neighbors say it's
just a matter of shutting off a valve behind the oven, unhooking the
coupling, and rehooking the new oven to the coupling, using adapters
if necessary. I don't imagine the assembly of the oven and stovetop
parts will be that difficult.

What say you folks?

-Scott

SMcK wrote:
We'll be buying a new gas oven soon. The local appliance store wants
a few hundred bucks to deliver and install. I have a truck big enough
to haul it and neighbors to help get it in the house.

How difficult is it to install the new oven? Some neighbors say it's
just a matter of shutting off a valve behind the oven, unhooking the
coupling, and rehooking the new oven to the coupling, using adapters
if necessary. I don't imagine the assembly of the oven and stovetop
parts will be that difficult.

What say you folks?

-Scott

That's about it. Have some pipe dope on hand and buy a new flex hose.
Plan your install during a time when your local hardware emporium is
open because you may have a gotcha (e.g. when I hooked up a new dryer
for my old landlady, I found that the new dryer used a smaller diameter
flex hose than the old one, so I had to run to the store for a new fitting.)

nate

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"SMcK" wrote in message
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We'll be buying a new gas oven soon. The local appliance store wants
a few hundred bucks to deliver and install. I have a truck big enough
to haul it and neighbors to help get it in the house.

How difficult is it to install the new oven? Some neighbors say it's
just a matter of shutting off a valve behind the oven, unhooking the
coupling, and rehooking the new oven to the coupling, using adapters
if necessary. I don't imagine the assembly of the oven and stovetop
parts will be that difficult.

What say you folks?

-Scott

An empty spray bottle, a teaspoon of liquid dish soap, enough water to fill
the bottle and paper towels to wipe up the residue.

Liberally spay every exposed leak and watch for bubbles to check for gas
leaks before you call it a day.

The tiny bubbles from the soap are not what you are watching for. If you
have a leak the bubble will expand.



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On Mar 21, 9:18*am, SMcK wrote:
We'll be buying a new gas oven soon. *The local appliance store wants
a few hundred bucks to deliver and install. *I have a truck big enough
to haul it and neighbors to help get it in the house.

How difficult is it to install the new oven? *Some neighbors say it's
just a matter of shutting off a valve behind the oven, unhooking the
coupling, and rehooking the new oven to the coupling, using adapters
if necessary. *I don't imagine the assembly of the oven and stovetop
parts will be that difficult.

What say you folks?

-Scott

Its easy to do unless the gas valve is bad, use new flex. 200$ is
alot for that. These days you should be able to get it for near free
on a new stove. I have an apliance guy that sells me top quality used
stuff installed for 150$, and the stoves compare to 6-800$ new stuff.
The quality on cheap stoves for rentals is junk these days.

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:18:29 -0700 (PDT), SMcK
wrote:


We'll be buying a new gas oven soon. The local appliance store wants
a few hundred bucks to deliver and install. I have a truck big enough
to haul it and neighbors to help get it in the house.

How difficult is it to install the new oven? Some neighbors say it's
just a matter of shutting off a valve behind the oven, unhooking the
coupling, and rehooking the new oven to the coupling, using adapters
if necessary. I don't imagine the assembly of the oven and stovetop
parts will be that difficult.

What say you folks?

-Scott

I installed an over-the-stove microwave. The most time-consuming job
was correcting what the original installers botched up. The edge of
the walls were open which caused some exhaust (along with grease) to
enter between the walls. And these people were licensed construction
workers. It should be fairly easy to install a built-in oven, just
be prepared for other things and have a helper nearby.

SMcK wrote:
We'll be buying a new gas oven soon. The local appliance store wants
a few hundred bucks to deliver and install. I have a truck big enough
to haul it and neighbors to help get it in the house.

How difficult is it to install the new oven? Some neighbors say it's
just a matter of shutting off a valve behind the oven, unhooking the
coupling, and rehooking the new oven to the coupling, using adapters
if necessary. I don't imagine the assembly of the oven and stovetop
parts will be that difficult.

What say you folks?

Trivial. The hardest part is wrestling the behemoth. It IS easier than
installing a refrigerator.

If you can install a toaster or waffle iron - and have enough muscles - you
can install a gas stove.

Someone mentioned pipe-dope. An alternative is the yellow Teflon tape. Your
neighbors are correct on the installation, but for your peace of mind a NEW
flexible connection hose is usually appropriate.

"HeyBub" wrote in message
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SMcK wrote:
We'll be buying a new gas oven soon. The local appliance store wants
a few hundred bucks to deliver and install. I have a truck big enough
to haul it and neighbors to help get it in the house.

How difficult is it to install the new oven? Some neighbors say it's
just a matter of shutting off a valve behind the oven, unhooking the
coupling, and rehooking the new oven to the coupling, using adapters
if necessary. I don't imagine the assembly of the oven and stovetop
parts will be that difficult.

What say you folks?

Trivial. The hardest part is wrestling the behemoth. It IS easier than
installing a refrigerator.

If you can install a toaster or waffle iron - and have enough muscles -
you can install a gas stove.

Someone mentioned pipe-dope. An alternative is the yellow Teflon tape.
Your neighbors are correct on the installation, but for your peace of mind
a NEW flexible connection hose is usually appropriate.

IIRC, some codes require a new flex hose for new appliances. They can go
bad over time and leak.

My local appliance dealer delivered at no additional charge (he is 1/2 mile
away) and my propane dealer came out one day to disconnect the old line,
came back the next and hook up and tested the new range for $60. Many years
ago some gas companied offered such services free or cheap but I have no
idea what they do now.

I'd take on such a project, but then, I've got a background
of working with natural gas and propane. Like the others
suggested. Take on the job daytime while the stores are
open. Always some stupid part you end up needing. Pipe dope
is a good idea, leak check, and so on. The flex hose is ten
bucks or so, worth every penny to replace it. Now's your
chance to scrub and polish the floor under the oven, which
seldom if ever gets scrubbed and polished.

Ask the guys at the store for advice. Overall, the job isn't
really killer dificult.

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"SMcK" wrote in message
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We'll be buying a new gas oven soon. The local appliance
store wants
a few hundred bucks to deliver and install. I have a truck
big enough
to haul it and neighbors to help get it in the house.

How difficult is it to install the new oven? Some neighbors
say it's
just a matter of shutting off a valve behind the oven,
unhooking the
coupling, and rehooking the new oven to the coupling, using
adapters
if necessary. I don't imagine the assembly of the oven and
stovetop
parts will be that difficult.

What say you folks?

-Scott

In article ,
"Stormin Mormon" wrote:

Overall, the job isn't
really killer dificult.

--

Isn't killer difficult? You're joking, right? It's two threaded fittings
on a flexible line, and a plug that goes into an electrical outlet.
Required tool list maxes out at one eye, one hand, and one crescent
wrench. (And the eye is probably optional.) On a scale of 1 to 10, 1
being changing a lightbulb, it's a 1.05.

Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
"Stormin Mormon" wrote:

Overall, the job isn't
really killer dificult.

--

Isn't killer difficult? You're joking, right? It's two threaded fittings
on a flexible line, and a plug that goes into an electrical outlet.
Required tool list maxes out at one eye, one hand, and one crescent
wrench. (And the eye is probably optional.) On a scale of 1 to 10, 1
being changing a lightbulb, it's a 1.05.

Two wrenches... always use a backup whenever you can...

nate

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In article ,
Nate Nagel wrote:

Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
"Stormin Mormon" wrote:

Overall, the job isn't
really killer dificult.

--

Isn't killer difficult? You're joking, right? It's two threaded fittings
on a flexible line, and a plug that goes into an electrical outlet.
Required tool list maxes out at one eye, one hand, and one crescent
wrench. (And the eye is probably optional.) On a scale of 1 to 10, 1
being changing a lightbulb, it's a 1.05.

Two wrenches... always use a backup whenever you can...

nate

If I were to concede that, you'd probably ask for a second hand to
operate it, and a second eye for depth perception.

Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
Nate Nagel wrote:

Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
"Stormin Mormon" wrote:

Overall, the job isn't
really killer dificult.

--
Isn't killer difficult? You're joking, right? It's two threaded fittings
on a flexible line, and a plug that goes into an electrical outlet.
Required tool list maxes out at one eye, one hand, and one crescent
wrench. (And the eye is probably optional.) On a scale of 1 to 10, 1
being changing a lightbulb, it's a 1.05.
Two wrenches... always use a backup whenever you can...

nate

If I were to concede that, you'd probably ask for a second hand to
operate it, and a second eye for depth perception.

Well, honestly, there are very few jobs that I perform with one eye
closed and one hand tied behind my back...

nate

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On Mar 21, 10:18*am, SMcK wrote:
We'll be buying a new gas oven soon. *The local appliance store wants
a few hundred bucks to deliver and install. *I have a truck big enough
to haul it and neighbors to help get it in the house.

How difficult is it to install the new oven? *Some neighbors say it's
just a matter of shutting off a valve behind the oven, unhooking the
coupling, and rehooking the new oven to the coupling, using adapters
if necessary. *I don't imagine the assembly of the oven and stovetop
parts will be that difficult.

What say you folks?

-Scott

The hardest part is hooking up the anti-tip-over thing. The last one
I did connected to one of the back adjustment legs. You need to slide
the stove into position, determine where that leg goes, slide the
stove back out, install the "device" (a small bracket), and slide the
stove back in.

Easiest way for me was to put a little powder on the floor -- flour,
corn starch, anything. Then it's easy to determine where the leg
goes.

The bracket grabs the back leg so the stove can't flip in you stand on
the open door or something like that.

It's pretty easy if you have linoleum or such but if you have stone or
tile it's a bit of a pain.

Good luck with it.