It’s Saturday morning.
The Smiths and the Joneses are hosting their dinner parties that night. The Smiths have a newer model gas oven, while the Joneses have their 20-year-old range.
Breakfast muffins are on the menu, but there’s a problem.
The oven won’t light.
Their lives couldn’t have been more different throughout the morning and afternoon.
One family had their day go up in flames, while the other enjoyed their breakfast muffins.
Whether you‘ve had your gas oven for 5 years or 25 years, oven igniters will go bad several times over the lifetime of your range.
Sometimes, the signs are subtle, like a lingering gas smell during that extra-long preheat process. Now that you think about it, your oven used to take 3, maybe 5, minutes to heat up.
You’re lucky if it takes 20 minutes.
Then, there’s the hit-you-over-the-head sign that your oven igniter is bad: it won’t light.
It clicks, but there’s no flame.
So, what made the difference between wondering how long the fix would take while stressing how much more money it would cost versus getting repairs done in an hour or less with enough time to enjoy breakfast muffins?