Motorhome has been in storage for a few days with the propane turned off.......so, did the typical thing. Opened the valve, and fired up the stove top gas burner to purge the line, so I could turn on the refrigerator. I have a 3 burner cook top with one burner in the center towards the front and two in the rear. The corian cover is in two pieces. I always remove both corian covers, but today I left the back portion on and to just expose the front burner. I lit it and purged the line. Turned the frig on and it lit right up. Turned the stove top off and went outside for a couple of minutes. Came back in and the smoke alarm was going off, plus I could smell something. Looked at the burner and it was off but I could see a little smoke coming from underneath the back corian cover. I looked under it and somehow, one of the rear burners was on. I must have open the control knob for it, immediately turned the knob to off. The corian cover was hotter then hot. I grabbed a heat muff and tilted it up so it could cool off. Let me tell you Corian retains heat. I left it like that for a several minutes, then ran cool water over it for several minutes, and it was still warm. I checked it again about an hour later and much to my surprise it was still a little warm...if you ever need a bed warmer, Corian would make a good one LOL. Luckily, the corian cover is fine, a couple of brown spots on the underneath, but the top looks fine. So, lesson learned, continue doing what I always did prior to today, and remove both front and rear covers of the stop top. Be carefulBrian

Thanks for sharing your experience. It's a good reminder for all of us to be careful when working with propane or other fuels.You were lucky. It could have been a lot worse.

The brown spots on the underside is there so the wife can snicker everytime she takes them off.....:W....Dennis

Executive wrote:The brown spots on the underside is there so the wife can snicker everytime she takes them off.....:W....Dennis Nope he can pull it up and ask. Honey when did you do this:B

I'll have to settle lifting it up and asking Sam, when he did this....Sam is by buddy, a border collie......just he and me. LOLBrianPS: I got enough of those, when did you ruin this or why haven't you done this once upon a time.

Good thing you went back in. Coulda returned to a smoking pile of rubble. It's always good when one of life's little lessons results in not-much-more than a dope slap.

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11 Replies

Canadian_Rainbi
Explorer
Aug 22, 2015
Just to make you feel better: Our stick house has a 4 burner gas stove top. The two right burners can be replaced with a grill. After we bought a large BQ for the patio we realised that we never used the stove grill so put the the two burners back.

Since we almost never use more than two burners, at a time we have large thick maple cutting cutting board over the two right hand burners. See it coming?

We now have two lovely black patterns on the under side of the cutting board.
cj7365
Explorer
Aug 22, 2015
Have you ever just tried to turn your fridge on without "purging" the gas line.

My fridge lights the second time when I turn on the gas, after storage.
ronheb454
Explorer
Aug 21, 2015
Yes, thanks for posting, I'll remember that one, glad everything was alright.
Dog_Folks
Explorer
Aug 21, 2015
Thanks for posting.

Welcome to the "Real World University."

Please note that some lessons here are expensive. :)
wilanddij
Explorer
Aug 21, 2015
Yup, also remember to remove both corian covers when using the oven. It vents right up the back of the stove.
I melted my cover way back when, but was able to move it to the floor upside down and put some weight on it while it cooled. No brown spots from the oven, though.
bon_sai
Explorer
Aug 21, 2015
supercub wrote:
Motorhome has been in storage for a few days with the propane turned off.......so, did the typical thing. Opened the valve, and fired up the stove top gas burner to purge the line, so I could turn on the refrigerator. I have a 3 burner cook top with one burner in the center towards the front and two in the rear. The corian cover is in two pieces. I always remove both corian covers, but today I left the back portion on and to just expose the front burner. I lit it and purged the line. Turned the frig on and it lit right up. Turned the stove top off and went outside for a couple of minutes. Came back in and the smoke alarm was going off, plus I could smell something. Looked at the burner and it was off but I could see a little smoke coming from underneath the back corian cover. I looked under it and somehow, one of the rear burners was on. I must have open the control knob for it, immediately turned the knob to off. The corian cover was hotter then hot. I grabbed a heat muff and tilted it up so it could cool off. Let me tell you Corian retains heat. I left it like that for a several minutes, then ran cool water over it for several minutes, and it was still warm. I checked it again about an hour later and much to my surprise it was still a little warm...if you ever need a bed warmer, Corian would make a good one LOL. Luckily, the corian cover is fine, a couple of brown spots on the underneath, but the top looks fine.
So, lesson learned, continue doing what I always did prior to today, and remove both front and rear covers of the stop top. Be careful
Brian

You can sand the brown spot away...

http://solidsurface.com/blog/4-tips-to-sanding-corian-guidelines-for-a-perfect-finish/
naturist
Nomad
Aug 21, 2015
Good thing you went back in. Coulda returned to a smoking pile of rubble. It's always good when one of life's little lessons results in not-much-more than a dope slap.
supercub
Explorer
Aug 21, 2015
I'll have to settle lifting it up and asking Sam, when he did this....Sam is by buddy, a border collie......just he and me. LOL
Brian

PS: I got enough of those, when did you ruin this or why haven't you done this once upon a time.
newman_fulltime
Explorer II
Aug 21, 2015
Executive wrote:
The brown spots on the underside is there so the wife can snicker everytime she takes them off.....:W....Dennis

Nope he can pull it up and ask. Honey when did you do this:B
Executive45
Explorer III
Aug 21, 2015
The brown spots on the underside is there so the wife can snicker everytime she takes them off.....:W....Dennis