Light and adjust pilot lights on gas stoves, and examine valves and burners for gas leakage and specified flame.

“Light and adjust pilot lights on gas stoves, and examine valves and burners for gas leakage and specified flame.” is a core task performed by Home Appliance Repairers. Among the occupation's 31 rated tasks, workers place it 17th by importance (#15 most important). About 90% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Inspect commercial, industrial, or production systems or equipment. in Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Bill customers for repair work, and collect payment. · importance 4.5
• Observe and examine appliances during operation to detect specific malfunctions such as loose parts or leaking fluid. · importance 4.5
• Talk to customers or refer to work orders to establish the nature of appliance malfunctions. · importance 4.4
• Refer to schematic drawings, product manuals, and troubleshooting guides to diagnose and repair problems. · importance 4.4
• Trace electrical circuits, following diagrams, and conduct tests with circuit testers and other equipment to locate shorts and grounds. · importance 4.4
• Replace worn and defective parts such as switches, bearings, transmissions, belts, gears, circuit boards, or defective wiring. · importance 4.4
• Conserve, recover, and recycle refrigerants used in cooling systems. · importance 4.4
• Provide repair cost estimates, and recommend whether appliance repair or replacement is a better choice. · importance 4.3
• Disassemble appliances so that problems can be diagnosed and repairs can be made. · importance 4.3
• Service and repair domestic electrical or gas appliances, such as clothes washers, refrigerators, stoves, and dryers. · importance 4.3
• Respond to emergency calls for problems such as gas leaks. · importance 4.3
• Reassemble units after repairs are made, making adjustments and cleaning and lubricating parts as needed. · importance 4.2
• Record maintenance and repair work performed on appliances. · importance 4.2
• Test and examine gas pipelines and equipment to locate leaks and faulty connections, and to determine the pressure and flow of gas. · importance 4.2

See all tasks on the Home Appliance Repairers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-13813,
  title  = {Light and adjust pilot lights on gas stoves, and examine valves and burners for gas leakage and specified flame.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-13813}
}