gas oven won;t heat

If you can't figure it out yourself, PUHLEEZE get a professional in there ASAP.

Jeff

Your pilot flame has gone out. There is an adjustment on the oven control , but if you don't know how to set it, call a repairman. HTH

Joe

A bad igniter does that on our Tappan. Ours fails about every 3-4 years. (We use the oven quite a bit.) The part costs about $50, and is pretty easy to replace.

George

Not if it's fairly new. :-)

Maybe, maybe not. Not enough info was given. Also, I'm not sure that Tappan is still an active brand. If not, it is indeed a few years old.

Ranges with oven pilot lights are still being made and sold. I recently bought one for a rental where there was no electrical outlet near the stove and I was lazy...and admittedly cheap... :-)

Doug

And are NOT the normal everyday item that people are purchasing. Even if it's manufactured in the last 10-15 years, it's highly likely that it doesn't have a pilot light. Since that's pretty much the life expectancy, you can pretty much guess that it doesn't have a pilot!

Approx. 4 months ago I bought a brand new gas range with standing pilots (burners and oven) as backup for my regular range.

Just see how well an electronic ignition oven serves in an extended power outage; here's a hint: NOT WELL.

BTW, that range was IN STOCK at the local appliance store.

Well, I wouldn't know what is a "normal" purchase. I do know that every major manufacturer offers a range with standing pilots.

Doug

I know that they're made and stocked, but they ARE NOT the normal range that everyone buys to put in their kitchen!!!!! Most people like self-cleaning ovens, find one of those today that has a pilot light!

Most people like sealed burners and self-cleaning ovens. They're not the ones that normally have pilots.

Also many localities (NYC is one) forbids the sale of appliances with a standing pilot (except for water heaters). The most basic models sold have electronic ignition. In addition, prior to that requirement, the oven portion of a range did not have a standing pilot either. The oven was lighted with a match held over a hole in the front of the oven. As long as the oven knob was on, a pilot would remain lit when the oven flame cycled to maintain a temperature, but the pilot would go off when the oven knob was set to the off position.

FWIW, we've got a low-end Montgomery Ward (made by Tappan -- that gives a clue about how old it is) and even IT has an electric igniter for the oven. I think it's more common to have pilots for top burners than for ovens.