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Any gas furnace will have a valve or gas cock located within 6 feet of the unit. Furnace valve designs vary, but they often include a little disk with a small handle or lever on it.

Other gas appliances like stoves, ovens and water heaters may also have pilot lights. Electric furnaces do not have a pilot light. And starting around 2010, gas furnaces haven’t, either.

Finally, I got a lit match close enough to the pilot light to turn on the natural gas, using a switch at floor level. The furnace was on! I could hear the whoosh of gas and flame. I could feel the ...

A. By all means, turn your furnace pilot light off. It is, indeed, a complete waste of gas to keep it going all summer. And while the flame is small, it is burning night and day; it will add some ...