I should preface this by saying neither my spouse nor I is what you would call 'handy'.
Our gas dryer, a Whirlpool somewhere between 12-15 years old, suddenly stopped heating up. The drum will rotate, but the inside never gets hot. The lint outlet/vent is wide open. The appliance repair guy wants $175 trip charge just to come look at it, and, the new model I'd replace it with is $900.
I'm impressed with those here that use YouTube to learn to fix things, but leery of messing with a gas appliance if I have no idea what I'm doing. My goal is to avoid throwing it out over something that was a small fix. So I have two questions:
What are the odds this is a small fix? and
How likely am I to blow the house up if I try to diagnose the problem with youtube?
TIA!