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If you can smell gas
Deal with the safety before the appliance. A smell of gas is not a diagnosis to be worked through — it is a room to be left.
Scope, stated plainly
This is a Sub-Zero refrigeration bench. Ranges and gas appliances are not on the book, and gas work is not something to shop around for. This page exists because the question is urgent and a redirect is a poor answer to an urgent question.
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Now, in this order
Do these before anything else, and do not stop to investigate.
- Do not operate any electrical switch, light, extractor fan or phone inside the property — a switch contact can spark.
- Turn off the burner controls if they are within reach and obviously left on, then leave the doors open behind you.
- Get everyone out of the building.
- From outside, call your gas utility's emergency line, or the emergency services if the smell is strong.
- Do not go back in until somebody with a detector tells you it is safe.
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The one benign explanation
A brief whiff of gas at the moment a burner is lit, lasting a second or two before ignition catches, is normal and is the reason gas is odourised in the first place. A smell that lingers, that appears when nothing is in use, or that you notice on walking into the room is not that, and should never be treated as that.
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Afterwards
Once the supply has been made safe, the appliance-side causes are worth knowing: a burner cap seated wrongly so gas escapes before it reaches the flame, a worn igniter that leaves gas flowing while it tries to light, a valve that is not closing fully, or a fitting disturbed when the range was last moved. All of that is work for a gas-qualified appliance technician, not for a refrigeration bench and not for a homeowner.
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Once the gas side is safe, the refrigeration in that kitchen is a call we can take.
Flat $95 call-out, credited against an approved repair.