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Oven Igniter Glowing but Not Lighting the Burner

The igniter glows orange and the burner never catches. You can watch it working, so it looks like the igniter cannot be what is wrong. It usually is. On a glow-bar oven the igniter doubles as the current sensor for the gas safety valve, and that valve is pulled open…

All Things Gas Oven

What to Check When a Gas Oven Is Clicking but Not Lighting

Click, click, click, and no flame. The burner keeps trying, nothing catches, and the first thing most people do is light a cooktop burner to prove the gas is on. That proof is weaker than it looks. Some ranges carry a separate shut-off on the pressure regulator that can close…

All Things Dishwasher

What to Check When an Electric Oven Bake Element Is Not Working

The top browns, the bottom stays pale, and nothing bakes through. That is often when people suspect the bake element. It is a reasonable first guess, but it is not proof. When an electric oven’s bake element fails completely, the oven may not reach the set temperature in normal Bake…

All Things Oven

Why Your Oven Is Not Heating to the Correct Temperature

Your cookies burn at a setting that used to be fine. An oven not heating to correct temperature almost always traces to one of four things: the temperature sensor, the bake element or igniter, the control board, or a thermometer reading taken at the wrong point in the cycle. That…

All Things Dishwasher

Diagnosing an Oven Not Heating Up

The roast has been in for forty minutes and it is still cold. Before any part is at fault, the first things we look at are the settings, a delay start or a demo mode left in the control, and then a partial loss of power at the breaker. An…

All Things Washing Machine

Washer Lid Lock Repair on a Top Load Machine

The lid lock light is blinking and the cycle will not start. Most of the time, this is a washer lid lock repair, not a control board repair. The lock assembly, the strike it catches on, or the connector behind the console is the likely fault, and all three get…

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Oven Igniter Glowing but Not Lighting the Burner

What to Check When a Gas Oven Is Clicking but Not Lighting

What to Check When an Electric Oven Bake Element Is Not Working

Why Your Oven Is Not Heating to the Correct Temperature

Diagnosing an Oven Not Heating Up

Washer Lid Lock Repair on a Top Load Machine

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