# Tiny Explosions In My Kitchen- Not A Gas Leak- Need Answer Fast! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 6, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-explosions-in-my-kitchen-not-a-gas-leak-need-answer-fast/1012647 "2025-01-06T17:55:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 72
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-explosions-in-my-kitchen-not-a-gas-leak-need-answer-fast/1012647/72 "2025-01-07T04:32:56Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > You have stated that you declined the offer of a new oven. Replacing the oven may cure the problem, or they may find the cause when they replace it. But you don’t want maintenace people in your appartment. Good luck on your explosions. There seem to be other issues at work here. > > I am done with advice. Just for the record, @DocCathode (hopefully getting good sleep) has had a really shitty couple of months to a year, complete with rat infested apartments, family, and the rest. First prior thread: > [@I Need Some Cheering Up](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-cheering-up/1000174): > > I’m not sleeping well. I have no energy. I haven’t had the energy to play a videogame or read a comic in months. My 80 year-old mom is declining. Based on her health, I’d long expected her to die suddenly. Now, it looks like we’ll all have the fun of a slow and horible decline. My gf is visiting her brother and his family in Florida. Her brother is defective and devoid of love\*. She worries that she will be shut out of the lives of her niece and nephew. The whole visit will bring her down. It … Then came August when they moved to the new (presumably this) apartment. Upon which they’ve gotten endless negative help on the building issues, such as he touched on upthread. Second prior thread: > [@Furious At My New Landlords! They Won't Make Repairs!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furious-at-my-new-landlords-they-wont-make-repairs/1007493): > > I was finally able to move out of my old apartment. It was rodent infested, in a high crime neighborhood, 500 something feet (as opposed to the apartment in Somerton which was almost 800), yet the rent ws more each month than my old apartment in Somerton- plus gas and water. I noted when we first began moving stuff into my new place in University City that there were some problems that maintenance needed to address- One of the three bulbs in the bathroom fixture was out. I was unsure whether I … So yes, Doc has been battling the landlord, while NOT being in a position to lose the lease for 4ish incredibly stressful months, and that’s not counting the election! Now, I’ll give you that you may not have _known_ any of this, if you haven’t seen any of the prior recent threads on DocCathode’s unpleasant adventures. And if you feel you can’t honestly help, that’s _also_ fine, but for the sake for a decent person suffering in difficult circumstances, dial back the hostility please. There’s actual reasons behind him not trusting the landlord’s staff! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-explosions-in-my-kitchen-not-a-gas-leak-need-answer-fast/1012647)._